Can you have your tonsils removed if you have tonsil stones.?
Monday, October 19th, 2009 at
4:57 am
You have tonsil stones bad bad bad. They are starting to get impossible to remove and are leaving holes in my tonsils.
Filed under: Tonsil Stones
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yep you can and in fact i just had a tonsillectomy 4 weeks ago because i’ve had tonsil stones since i was 12 (i’m 23 now) and in the last couple years they have just gotten to the point that i couldn’t stand it anymore. my throat was always sore, i had bad breath, i felt like something was back there, i’d cough a lot, and i’d clear my throat ALL THE TIME. (just the clearing my throat part was an annoying enough sound to make me want my tonsils out lol).
when i went to the ENT in july he said he only saw like one tonsil stone in each tonsil and they were pretty small but i insisted there were more. sure enough after the surgery he told me that when he cut into my tonsils there were TONS of them so it was a very good decision on my part to have them out.
most regular drs will say there is no need to take out your tonsils and tonsil stones are nothing to be bothered by (but it seems like they haven’t experienced what i did for 11 yrs of my life)
i would skip the regular dr and head straight to the ENT.
**edit**
"maya" sorry to say but you are completely off the mark here.
first of all tonsil stones doesn’t just mean your tonsils are inflamed! tonsil stones are little peices of food that get stuck in your tonsils.
and NO the holes will not just heal themselves. they get bigger allowing for more to get stuck in there and if you can get the tonsil stone out it will get embedded in your tonsil.
Well, yes, one way to resolve tonsilloliths is by tonsillectomy. Get the condition evaluated by an ENT.
Tonsil stones means your tonsil has inflammation.So the best thing you can do is to consult your ENT doctor.If ever the doctor will do tonsillectomy don’t worry there is no such things that leaving holes in your tonsil.It will heal it as normal as like nothing happen.