I will be 7 days post-op this afternoon—pain hasn’t gotten better and I have a horrible taste in my mouth that’s been getting worse over the last few days
My scabs are maybe starting to come off? I wondered if maybe that was it, but it’s awful. I’ve been looking at the surgical site a few times a day with a flashlight in the mirror (something I got very good at due to the tonsils existing previously) and it looked mostly fine, but the pain has gotten worse/deeper over the last day or two (like, crying pain, and I have a pretty high pain tolerance usually) but today I noticed it looks weird? Like, the scabs look funny, and I think kinda greenish in spots? And now it’s bright red around them when previously it wasn’t. I’m a little worried it might be an infection. Also my ears hurt and are really itchy. Is this normal? Should I contact my doctor? I think I’m supposed to be going in for my post op exam sometime in the next week or two, but it’s starting to worry me a bit. My ENT prescribed me hydrocodone for the pain but it doesn’t seem to be working all that well, especially in the mornings. I have two humidifiers running and I’ve been chugging more water than an AI data center, plus keeping the area cold as much as I can. Ice packs on my neck/throat only help ease the pain a little bit. My scabs don’t seem to be coming off very much though, I thought they were supposed to be falling off more by now, but I’ve only got little reddish spots on them.
I could just be anxious about all of it, and I’m writing this at 1:30am, but I thought I’d ask since it doesn’t seem to be improving at all.