Munchlet
04-11-21, 15:52
Hi guys,
So for once not a HA panic, just a general question.
I used to suffer from tonsillitis as a kid and in my early twenties and after getting to the point of having it fairly regularly one of the nurses refused to prescribe antibiotics and said to see if my immune system would fight it off. It did and fortunately, I've been free for over 20 years until now!
I had a slight sore throat a few weeks ago which lasted a few days and went away and then a week ago I started to get a sore throat down one side which got progressively worse. I popped to the chemist who gave me some soluable paracetamol and some strong lozenges and told me to go back in a couple of days if it wasn't better but he thought it was viral. Especially since I'd still been going to the gym and had no other symptoms.
Yesterday I woke up feeling awful, nausea, banging head, throat no better so I went back and he took a look and said it was still viral at that stage (no white spots) but it could potentially become bacterial.
I woke up this morning, actually thought my throat felt a bit better as it didn't wake me in the night as it has been doing and I only had 2 doses of paracetamol yesterday so I figured the pain was easing. I also haven't felt sick and the headache is a lot better but my tonsils now have quite a few white spots on them.
My question is, can you get over bacterial tonsillitis without antibiotics? I'm just hoping that yesterday was everything coming to a head as I felt so rotten and I don't really want to take antibiotics if I don't have to but I'm also not sure if a bacterial infection will just go on it's own?
I'm a bit baffled as to why I've got this again after so many years but then again I guess with the easing of lock-down and me working from home pretty much the last two years, it was inevitable that going back into a school environment would trigger some nasty bugs!
So hoping there's a few tonsillitis experts on here that might know if it's ok for me to just wait this one out?
I would call the surgery but to be honest they are so busy at the moment, I'd rather just know if anyone else has experienced this and managed to get over it wiithout antibiotics.
Thanks
So for once not a HA panic, just a general question.
I used to suffer from tonsillitis as a kid and in my early twenties and after getting to the point of having it fairly regularly one of the nurses refused to prescribe antibiotics and said to see if my immune system would fight it off. It did and fortunately, I've been free for over 20 years until now!
I had a slight sore throat a few weeks ago which lasted a few days and went away and then a week ago I started to get a sore throat down one side which got progressively worse. I popped to the chemist who gave me some soluable paracetamol and some strong lozenges and told me to go back in a couple of days if it wasn't better but he thought it was viral. Especially since I'd still been going to the gym and had no other symptoms.
Yesterday I woke up feeling awful, nausea, banging head, throat no better so I went back and he took a look and said it was still viral at that stage (no white spots) but it could potentially become bacterial.
I woke up this morning, actually thought my throat felt a bit better as it didn't wake me in the night as it has been doing and I only had 2 doses of paracetamol yesterday so I figured the pain was easing. I also haven't felt sick and the headache is a lot better but my tonsils now have quite a few white spots on them.
My question is, can you get over bacterial tonsillitis without antibiotics? I'm just hoping that yesterday was everything coming to a head as I felt so rotten and I don't really want to take antibiotics if I don't have to but I'm also not sure if a bacterial infection will just go on it's own?
I'm a bit baffled as to why I've got this again after so many years but then again I guess with the easing of lock-down and me working from home pretty much the last two years, it was inevitable that going back into a school environment would trigger some nasty bugs!
So hoping there's a few tonsillitis experts on here that might know if it's ok for me to just wait this one out?
I would call the surgery but to be honest they are so busy at the moment, I'd rather just know if anyone else has experienced this and managed to get over it wiithout antibiotics.
Thanks