mcohen
20-07-19, 15:30
24/M. I have posted here in the past about tonsil issues. I saw a doctor since my last post here about my tonsils and he confirmed that they were fine and was not at all concerned by a bulge behind the tonsil fold. A previous visit to the doctor many months before that also confirmed that there was nothing wrong with my tonsils. Since my most recent visit to the doctor I have forced myself to stop looking at my tonsils as it only worsened my health anxiety.
Despite the above, I have noticed over perhaps the past couple of years that nine times out of ten, when I get a sore throat, it only ever seems to be on one side. Usually this will be the left side though I have had it only on the right side aswell. When I was younger, I don't recall having sore throats only on one side. It is worth me pointing out that it is not at all often that I get sore throats - it's more a case that whenever I do, it only seems to be one side. I don't understand why this would happen, if, as the doctor has said, there is nothing wrong with my tonsils, throat etc.
I don't really have any other symptoms that would be suggestive of something sinister, however, suffering quite severely with health anxiety this is naturally the route that my mind takes me down...
Despite the above, I have noticed over perhaps the past couple of years that nine times out of ten, when I get a sore throat, it only ever seems to be on one side. Usually this will be the left side though I have had it only on the right side aswell. When I was younger, I don't recall having sore throats only on one side. It is worth me pointing out that it is not at all often that I get sore throats - it's more a case that whenever I do, it only seems to be one side. I don't understand why this would happen, if, as the doctor has said, there is nothing wrong with my tonsils, throat etc.
I don't really have any other symptoms that would be suggestive of something sinister, however, suffering quite severely with health anxiety this is naturally the route that my mind takes me down...