Except OP said he was already in an endless cycle of bills and spending money because of how sick he as WITH his tonsils, so your conspiracy theory about 'big pharma' is a stretch. I had my tonsils removed because of how sick they made me and I'm perfectly fine now, it differs from person to person. Take your tinfoil hat elsewhere.

That isn't true. I live in a country with free healthcare and people still have their tonsils taken out here, so how can it all be about money?

What they could mean by "Went through hell" is that they were constantly in pain and constantly dealing with swollen or infected tonsils but the Doctors were reluctant to have them removed until the situation recently got worse. It used to be that they pretty much took your tonsils out after the second time you came down with tonsillitis. Now a days, they will let you just keep getting sick over and over and over again, and be dealing with constant miserable sore throats that aren't really helped by anything, and basically wait until your tonsils start swelling enough to suffocate you before deciding to remove them. I get why, but I would very much also consider that going through hell to get them removed.

Read the follow-up.

Will that make the allergies even worse?

It's pretty safe to assume they WERE causing trouble.

They probably weren't determined to get them removed. They were probably determined to stop having to suffer from constant, searing sore throats and breathing troubles caused by infected tonsils. They have become way more reluctant to remove tonsils in the past years, doubly so when it comes to removing them from adults, so when you spend years dealing with the problems caused by being prone to tonsil infections and the fact that nothing works, and trying to get your doctor to understand that just constantly giving you cough medicine and throat coat stuff is not helping, only for them to finally break down and do what they technically could have done years before to cut down on your suffering, than you have gone through hell to get them removed as an adult.

They're so reluctant because there are lots and lots of big blood vessels in direct neighbourhood to your tonsils and bleeding is a very common complication which can get pretty bad pretty fast.

I've seen a child die from a tonsillectomy that was necessary and seemingly went fine. Tonsillar tissue usually regresses after early childhood, which also when you most need your tonsils' immune functions, so doctors wait until a bit later even if they HAVE to remove them.

doctors won't just take them out anymore. they want to see it's a constant trend instead of a one time deal.