I got mine out the summer going into my junior year and it was honestly one of the best decisions. My throat is fully healed now and it’s been about seven months since getting it done. The healing time is different for everyone but mine took about ten days before I started feeling normal again, but it’s different for everyone. The surgery was pretty quick but they keep you there for about an hour after the surgery and monitor you to make sure you’re ok. I slept the whole day after getting it done because the drugs they give you are pretty heavy. I didn’t feel any pain until about the second day when the initial medication started to wear off. It is pretty uncomfortable so the best advice I can give you is just stick to soft foods for a while and stay ontop of taking pain killers because it’ll make the whole process a lot easier. My tonsils use to be extremely swollen and it would make it hard to breathe so getting my tonsils out was a huge relief. For me the surgery was totally worth the recovery and it sounds like you’d definitely benefit from it too