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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I am 41 now and had my tonsils removed when I was 21. For the years preceeding my tonsillectomy I was really ill at least twice a year, with a temperature of 40 and a throat so sore, it felt like I was swallowing glass. I had my own business at the time and could not afford, either physically or financially to keep taking unexpected weeks off work ill.
After I had them out it was such a relief!! The pain post operation was nothing like the sore throats I used to have. I have never any illness or flu-like virus since. So for me it was such the right thing to do! I should have had them out years before....
The specialist who removed them said that although they weren't the biggest tonsils he'd ever seen, they were like two balls of infected tissue and would have eventually made me constantly ill with their poison.
The pain as the 'holes' that were left behind healed up was quite bad.. but she was given strong painkillers to take the edge off it. BUT... she feels better than ever now and hasn't needed antibiotics for over a year now and feels she's had the last laugh over her tonsils!!!!
honkytonkman - I sympathise with your friend too, I also attack them to get te poison out, shudder!
Have you tried cutting out dairy? I know that sounds weird but a common cause of recurrent tonsilitis is dairy intolerance.
I assume lots antibiotics are being taken too...some probiotics (acidophilus from a health shop is best) can help after a course of ABs.