Sore throats and their progression

Factual Questions
1

I’ve been diagnosed with a low-grade bacterial infection by my doctor. One of my symptoms has been a sore throat. It’s going away, but it seems that from the day I first experienced that symptom: Monday, the pain has progressed down my throat. It started off in the back of my mouth and then as the week has gone on, the pain has gone down a little bit further down my throat. Right now, it’s sort of a dull ache in the middle of my throat. I have a feeling that after today, the pain will be gone.

Is this a normal way for a sore throat to play out?

2

Answering my own question, what happened it turned out was that the antibiotics did indeed get rid of my sore throat, but when my throat was sore and I was eating some hot food, I swallowed in such a way to avoid the sore part and ended up burning a little bit of my throat.