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I had bleeding twice on day 3. What started it was choking on liquid Tylenol and to the hospital we went. They couldn't handle the kind of bleeding I had, so they called my ENT who said to wait 1 hour and if no bleeding to send my home. So at home I called my mom to tell her that I thought I was going to drown to death and I said two sentences and the bleeding started again. So off to the hospital again, this time to the one where my ENT was. This is 9:30PM and into emergency surgery where they cleaned the tonsil bed, flushed my sinuses (I had a septoplasty) and pumped 200 ml from my stomach. I stayed in the hospital overnight and in the morning the blood test said my hemmoglobin was 11. 10 is the low end of the scale. So I took iron for 30 days to help. My ENT said days 3, 6,7,8, and 14 are the days for the risk of bleeding. He said he had a patient that bleed 4 times with 4 emergency surgeries!!! Not me!!!!! Please don't worry about bleeding again. I know it's very frightening. I thought I was going to die both times and the second time I lost a lot of blood, 1 1/2 pints, and had a clot blocking my airway if I raised my head any at all. Just eat soft foods for a longer period of time. I had a bad case of thrush and had to eat soft foods for 3 weeks. I'm now at day 38 and I am starting to eat fairly normal. There are still some things that I can't have or that taste really bad, like cardboard. I hope you won't have any more problems. Get plenty of rest and drink every 15 minutes to stay hydrated.

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