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thank you all for your replies, I think I will ask my GP for a referral and see what they say, thanks again

I had my tonsils removed at the age of seventeen.....no problems at all apart from the kippers I was given as my first meal after surgery!!!
Tonsillitis used to be a twice yearly two week affair where I couldn't even swallow liquids without pain.
A sore throat now is a very rare occurrence, and have just realised that my operation was sixty years ago ...lol

Norah

i had my tonsils out at 21 !!! frankly id rather go through child birth again!!!!
it was better after a while....so all said and done....
sam x

My S.I.L had his out about 1999/2000 he was aged 29/30 yrs old always getting
sore throats colds and what ever else was going .
but since having them out he's been fine .
Hazelx

You eat the crispy stuff afterwards to get rid of skanky skin, etc. It works.

My son had his out at the age of 16.It was very painful for a few days after ,but he says it was the best thing he could have had done,Wishes it was done years earlier.No more bad throats.I think you have to eat toast afterwards !

Will have to speak to doc I think Kempina's daughter's experience doesn't sound great.

Interesting what you say about your sore throats coming back after having a child Potty, as this is pretty much what happened to me, didn't really suffer too badly in my 20s and 30s but the last couple of years have been really bad.

My dad was given cornflakes the morning after his were taken out!

Had mine out in my late twenties. Had awful sore throats as a child which did stop but came back after the birth of my first child.

Wasn't too bad but I do think the hospital could have managed to give us something other than mulligatawny soup for supper that night!

The frequent sore throats did stop and if I ever got one, the doctor called it pharyngitis instead of tonsilitus!

Shirley....My daughter had hers out last year!!! it was an awful experiance for both of us ..and it hasnt stopped the sore throats...and she had such bad calcifications of her tonsils they had to stitch the tonsil beds!!! and she still gets problems now

Dont know if we did the right thing or not!!

Had mine out at 15 . still get some sore throats when going down with a cold etc but dont get tonsillitis cos no tonsils!. I had mine removed because I seemed to have a permanent very sore throat so they whipped em out !!

Anyone have experience of having tonsils out as an adult? Did it stop you getting bad throats? On third bout of tonsillitis now since Christmas and getting sick of it, wondering whether to have them taken out. Didn't get done when I was a child as wasn't "in fashion" then, doctors all said I would grow out of it. I assume that would have happened by now if it was going to as I am over 40!