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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DO IT! I have very rotten tonsils and so does dh. I had strep nonstop and then the final nail in the coffin was mono in college. There is no recovery for my tonsils and now I'm too old to get them out.

Good friends of ours are both ENTs. They said that previously ENTs stopped doing tonsillectomies as much (in 90s/2000s/2010s), but they realized that the pendulum had swung too far. There is no benefit to having tonsils. They said that they see lots of cases with adults who have bad tonsils and there isn't much to be done for them. [/quote]
I had enormous tonsils but was rarely sick as a child. After mono, I started to get sick all the time. I had strep over and over during college and graduate school. They were an absolute misery from that point on; finally an ENT in my 40s was like “Wow, why do you still have these???” I still had adenoids too. The surgery that kids bounce back from quickly is one of the most painful for adults. They tell you it will be 14 days of hell with oxy and they aren’t lying.

It was still worth it. But I really wish they’d come out when I was a kid![/quote]

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