Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Im very glad you have had a successful surgery. Comparing a biopsy to a surgery is not close to an equal comparison. Biopsies take a teeny tiny sample of tissue where removing your tonsils took substantially more tissue. A biopsy takes tissue about the size of a grain of rice and removing tonsils would be significantly greater amount so after effects would be drastically different.
You have done the right thing in calling your doc to get a much sooner appointment. You could have an infection going on or some sort of fluid retention causing swelling. Infections can quickly turn into a serious health concern. I normally do not show the usual signs of infections and am usually pretty surprised when that kind of thing happens to me. Many here who have been diagnosed with OC do not have many obvious symptoms which is often why OC is not noticed when its in its earliest stages. Hopefully what you have is nothing major. Good luck!!! ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive |