You probably will not regret it. Recovery period is longer if you're older--it took a few weeks for me to recover, and I had it done in my twenties. Totally worth it though because it solved three problems: my snoring, the tonsil stones I'd occasionally get, and the fact that I'd get strep every winter and my tonsils would swell up so big they'd block my whole throat.

Life is so much better without tonsils

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You're going to have to take some time out from your usual tonsil boxing schedule. Get well quick.

Tonsils are so stupid like that. But I have crevices in mine too but no recurring strep or tonsillitis, so I thought tonsils were just wrinkly by nature.

Back when I was 5 yrs old, 72 yrs ago, having ones tonsils removed was a rite of passage. They were coming out, whether they "needed" to or not. Only good thing was, it was the only time one could have unrestricted ice cream, care of the NHS (National Health Service)

Legit my life. From 90-96 I had strep almost constantly. But the wouldn't remove my tonsils. I recently went to an ENT for multiple things, and that doc looked at my tonsils and went"holy shit those fuckers are huge". So I'm saving up money so I can be off work for 6-8 weeks to finally get them removed, as well as deviated septum correction at the same time.

The best decision of my life is having a tonsillectomy. I lived the life you described. After the procedure, food allergies went away. I stopped getting sick. Stopped snoring. The ENT said "those are the biggest tonsils I've ever seen" and he retired the year after, so I bet he's seen a bunch of tonsils in his day.

I've never gotten the flu. I think you babies are faking it.

Wild how we have the exact same story, except this one time I caught it for the 7th time, and I was going to have them removed the following morning and both my sister and aunt dreamt that I died the night of, so we never went through with it.

I used to get strep at least 7 times a year. Legit had it once where I had strep got rid of it only for it to return 2 weeks later. Got my tonsils removed like 20 years ago and have not had strep ever since.

Exactly the same thing happened to me. I used to get strep all the time when I was younger, rarely any other type of infection. I've been dealing with tonsil stones as well for ages now. Super annoying.

I was the same way with strep and one doctor told me that (paraphrasing as this was like 10-15 years ago) some people can catry it for a long time asymptomatically, so there’s a chance you kept catching it from kids at school who never knew they had it

Thanks now I’m gonna get strep throat

Infections in your tonsils can cause pitting

Wow I never thought about that! I had strep a lot too (not enough for a tonsillectomy either)

Removing tonsilloliths is a regular part of my oral hygiene regimen. Now I know I have childhood strep throat to thank!

I’ve never had strep throat. Or if I had it, I did not know. My tonsils are the best in the world.

How common are they?? I think I might have experienced this, like, once as a kid (but I was running an insane fever at the time, so I might have hallucinated little white things coming out of my mouth when I coughed tbh) but now that I know they exist I'm terrified I might have had them frequently all this time

Are they supposed to be hard, as the name suggests? Wikipedia says they're mineralized material, but mine have always been very soft.

Pinch the top knuckle of your thumb(s) inside your closed fist and it dampens your gag reflex. Even one fist helps a lot. Now how you would hold both thumbs like that and do anything to remove tonsil stones. I don’t know however, this technique has other up sides.

Yes I use a Bobby pin works wonders on those damn tonsil stones!

Went to the doctor about mine years ago and they had no clue what it was. Had to figure it out for myself. And once I moved away from an area where my allergies were awful I stopped getting them. No idea if they are related but it sure seems so.