I’ve had a very sore throat for 9 days and I am very tired. Also I feel emotionally “blah” which may or may not be related. The sore throat went away a few days ago, but came back with a vegence today. Especially on the left side of my throat. My left tonsil is also more swollen that my right. Cloraseptic + Aleve do not make pain stop.
Most interestingly, I have developed a strange lump-like object on the left side of my throat, just below my salivatory gland and the first lymph gland (glands swollen on both side, btw). This lump thing is vaguely wedge shaped, with the widest part at the glands and the point-esque end pointed down about an inch/inch and a half below. It does not like being touched. It is ouchy. The pain from wedge of death radiates into the left side of the back of my neck. If I try and stretch my neck to the side, I can feel a pulling on the lump and it is ouchy. If I try and touch my chin to my chest, my left tonsil bumps the back of my throat and displays fire-shooting super powers (previously unknown).
I may or may not have a fever. Since we moved we’ve mixed up the baby’s butt thermometer and our oral one, and I’m not playing that roulette game.
I’m going to call the doc tomorrow and find out about the results of the mono test. But I worry about tonsillitis. Does that even still exist? Is it true they can give you medication to dissolve the tonsils without surgery?
To be honest, it does sound like glandular fever. IANAD, and you’ve already had the tests so that’s good, but it sounds a lot like when I had glandular fever for a few weeks back in '03.
I couldn’t eat for nearly a fortnight, due to the horrible, inflamed, pussy nastiness of my tonsils. I couldn’t even swallow saliva, and could barely breathe. I had a small fever, but not so you’d notice. The worst part, though, was the tiredness and the overwhelming feeling that I was just going to die. Not due to pain. Just going to die due to going to bed and never getting out again. Luckily that was while Mr. Indigo was visiting, so he lookededed after me for the few weeks that I was sick. The pissant thing is that I still have ‘episodes’ of it now, two years later.
It could be tonsilitis, though. A cow-orker came down with it recently, so that’s still doing the rounds in most places. But I’ve never had it, so I don’t know the symptoms.
This is just my opinion, but your symptoms sound exactly like what I had when I had both Mono and Strep Throat. Strep can occur simultaneously with Mono and can be cured pretty quickly with anitbiotics. If the Mono test comes back positive, there is not magic cure. It will take a long time to recover b(It took me 3 months of rest, no school, and no work to recover)but you will recover.
Did the docs do a throat culture? I’d imagine that’s the first thing they’d do with symptoms like that. Moon Unit had a nasty sore throat this past summer, along with major fatigue, and when we went to the doctor’s office, they did a rapid Mono test as well as a rapid strep. She had obviously tender glands in her neck - I could feel swelling, and if I palpated her neck even gently she screamed (she’s got a low pain threshold though).
The strep came back positive, the rapid mono came back negative. They gave us antibiotics for the strep and said that if she didn’t perk up quickly (a day or so), we were to return for a more sensitive/ accurate mono test that took a couple days to run (sounds like your doc went straight for the more sensitive version of the test).
The shitty thing about mono is that there’s not much they can do about it beyond prescribe rest (rather difficult to do with a young Tinkleberry to deal with!).
I’ll second this, I had the mono/strep combo when I was in college, and it’s not pretty. However, at first the doctor thought I had tonsilitis, but they didn’t actually do a test so that was just based on observation. Apparently, the symptoms are quite similar.
Both DLG and I have doc appointments in the morning. DLG usually has to dragged kicking and screaming to the doc, so his asking me to make an appoitnment really says something. Meanwhile, I have these rings of white around my tonsils and in my throat. My tonsils look like dinosaur eggs.
The pain is so bad I am considering taking a vicodin. I have refused pain meds through several surgeries, but this is so bad I’m ready to thow in the towel. It hurts from the outside.
That description sounds like strep to me, too, even without mono tagging along. When I had strep a couple years ago, the doctor gave me a really good pain killer along with the antibiotic (he said he’d never seen a grosser case of strep…thanks, Doc). I wish I could remember what the painkiller was, because it was awesome. I’ve never had such a good sleep in my life. I’m like you - not really a painkiller person. I didn’t take any after my c-section or after having 4 wisdom teeth surgically removed. I needed them for strep. You should definitely ask for something if you’re in that much pain.
I have some from a (minor) surgical proceedure I had a few months back. I didn’t take any of them then, but now I might. I’m waiting for DLG to get home from work because I fear they’ll make me sleep deeply and miss the baby if he woke up.
I got tested 9 days ago, which was negative. I told the doc at the time I knew it was strep but since it was the first day of the throat pain, that it was prolly a false negative. Her response was :dubious: . But I get strep 2-3 times a year, and have since I was 9. After approximately 36 -45 cases of strep since then, I know from strep.
This sadly is the worst I’ve seen since my first bout. Tonsils so swollen I can’t close my mouth all the way because they bump my tongue.