Tonsillectomy at 31year old

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Has anyone had their tonsils removed as an adult? I get strep and/or tonsillitis 1-2 times per year and my tonsils are huge. Removing them is not very poplar nowadays, but the MD thinks I am a candidate. He advised that my tonsils are large enough to cause sleep apnea down the road.

Everything I have read talks about extreme pain and one of the worst surgeries you can have. Average recover time for adults being 2 weeks to go back to work and 1 month to return to a normal diet. Not to mention most people loosing 20-40 pounds....

I am relatively healthy, workout, etc, and while he advised that those factors help with most surgery recovery, MD said that those factors will not help with the recovery time for this type of surgery.