Adenoid Surgery Recovery

I have 4 year old triplets and two of them had enlarged adenoids. We had them removed about 6 months ago. My boys did great and they did not have any pain after the surgery. They were up and running that afternoon. One of my sons they said complained of some pain in the recovery room (before I got to see him) so they gave him some pain meds for that. It took him a little longer to wake up and to get back to normal but he was fine by the time we left the hospital. The other one did not require the extra pain meds and was bouncing out of the hospital bed as soon as he woke up!

Good luck with the surgery!

Our daughter went through the same procedure. She recovered fine. She had tubes and then about 8 months later had a really bad infection with some loss of hearing. The Dr. said she needed her adenoids removed.

The hardest part was when we had to hand her over to the nurse. Our daughter really became upset. My husband took a Valium and was a lot better after that.

After the surgery, we stayed in recovery a few hours and then took her home. She was very tired and slept for many hours. She was not very hungry and really wanted to be held. I think we were instructed to give her children's Tylenol. She recovered very well and was up and around the second day, just not running around till the third day.

The surgery was worth all of the fuss. She never had ear problems after the surgery.

Lots of the kids in our neighborhood ended up having the same surgery. They all had tubes at some point and 4 had their adenoids removed.

My daughter had multiple ear infections and fluid on the ears when she too was young. Was hoping the first set of tubes would work but didn't. Finally we decided to have another set put in and adenoids taken out. I am so glad we did that. The surgery does last longer than just putting in the tubes but it's not interminable. I think my daughter was down for about a day but we stayed calm for the weekend since we had it done on a Friday. Was she in pain? That probably varies from child to child but she no longer has ear issues and her nose no longer runs constantly so a little pain for a short period of time was worth it in the long ru.

My son had this years ago, when he was 4 (now 21). Our doctor in Florida actually let me watch over closed circuit TV and gave me a video of it for my husband. That's how traumatic it wasn't. His recovery was basically coming out from under the anesthesia (the only scary part is anesthesia)and he was totally fine. In fairness, this was a kid who didn't cry for stitches and watched blood drawn from his arm with interest. If there was pain with the adenoids, he never showed any sign of it.

Hi C.,
i have a son who is now 17 and throughout his younger years he would suffer w/allegies and ear infections terribly.I had the tubes in and eventually they fell out at the age of late 2 early 3.He did have alot fewer ear infections due to not having the tubes any longer but mostly caused by his allergies.I would suggest to wait to have his adenoids removed and wait on reinsertion of the tubes.If you see later that he continues to have the same reaccuring symtoms then possbly consider having his adnoid removed.Hold off to see if you can treat his allergies first.I've learned from experience w my three kids that suffer from allergies ages now 17[boy]15[girl]8[boy] to treat the allergies before they start and learn what triggers them.Mostly seasonal and dust.My 2 older i guess their immune system is stronger as they got older and have fewer accurance of these terrible allergies that i wish never excisted.The doc has prescribed every possibly medicine that can be perscribed for children since they were very small.It got to the point were it had side affects of not working at all due to their bodies getting immune to the medicine and stop working or hyping them up cause of certain ingrdients in it that they would bounce off the wall and drive us crazy or the other affect to another one that would zombie them out.
Well i found this tiny wonder pill so i call it for allegies.It can be bought over the counter at Walgreens its their house brand called AllerClear.I recently 2 years ago was struct will allergies due to getting asthma as an adult that triggered allergies that i never had before and boy were they bad.Doc said because we live in Austin we people who have sensitive reactions to allergies would be misreable unless they just go away which probably won't happen to most of us.Back to the AllerClear it has one active ingredient and its Loratadine 10mg.The inactive ingredients are corn starch lactosemonohydrate,magnesium,purified water.Loratadine i do remember that was one of the prescibed medicine i would get from the doc but also remember it would hype{wire up} my boys up.But this over the counter doesn't seem to do that.I don't know why but it doesn't.So as the weather changes like now that triggers most allergies i started about 3 weeks ago to give my boys 1 tiny tablet and tiny they are every morning and they no longer suffer.I know you mentioned your son being 32 months so do ask your doc what the side affects could be and if you choose to give this to him possibly start w/a 1/2 of tablet and monitor his symtoms if you see that it does or does'nt do much for him try the whole tablet.I know it can be scary to try something your not familiar w/but it is an over the counter sold medicine and i found it to do WONDERS for me kiddos and myself.Also you can always get a second opinion about having his adenoids removed.Goodluck!!thanks for taking the time to read this LOOOOONNGGG response i hope i could be helpful we'll keep your son in our prayers.Have a nice day.
T.

My son had the same procedures when he was a toddler and he was in little to no pain. He began running around almost as soon as the anesthesia wore off. It has been some years, (my son is 20 now), but I don't remember the surgery taking very long. Take a book and some snacks and wear something comfortable to sit around in. Good luck!