Pain is perhaps the most common dreaded fear patients have when considering tonsillectomy surgery. After pain, bleeding is perhaps the 2nd greatest concern patients have. With both these issues, steroids play a key role by helping with one at the expense of the other. In the 2011 Clinical Practice Guideline: Tonsillectomy in Children , the authors strongly recommend giving a single large dose of steroids to help with not just pain, but also nausea and vomiting after surgery. It is not jus…