>Do you get throat infections regularly? I think that's the main reason they
>remove tonsils in adults these days. I had mine taken out when I was 20,
>after 6 months of non-stop throat infections. (Take antibiotics - get
>better; end antibiotics - throat swells shut.) It turned out that I had an
>abcess behind the tonsils that was threatening to permanently scar my vocal
>cords. I was lucky to have them out when I did. An ENT can be your friend in
>this situation.
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Yes, actually, I do. I have also been getting a lot of sinus infections recently. I have talked to the last two sleep doctors I have seen (the first in my hometown of Windsor, while I could still go back to Canada to see him) and my current one (in West Virginia). Both of them were not willing to consider it, and I am baffled as to why. This is despite the fact that I have been examined before and told that my tonsils were inflamed. To me, you would think that tonsil removal would be one of the first things they'd do for sleep apnea. Studies that I have seen show that most patients with sleep apnea still have their tonsils. Sleep apnea has also become more widely reported in recent decades. In the past, they would routinely remove tonsils... now they don't.
I am thinking that I will see an ear, nose and throat specialist about this and my recent sinus infections, and see what he or she thinks.
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