Hello everyone.
I'm having a sore throat issue.
About a month ago, I had the flu pretty bad. It lasted two weeks. At one point I went to Urgent Care, they did the flu-test on me, and sure enough, I had Influenza Type B. I took my medication and got better (but what a miserable two weeks that was). However, one symptom never went away... a mild sore throat.
I feel silly complaining about it, because it really is mild... but persistent. The pain is only on one side (the right side). I can go through the day without it acting up at all, but once I start talking, I can feel it. On a scale of 0-10 (0 meaning I don't feel it at all), talking will bring the pain level up to a 2. If I start laughing, talking a lot, singing along to something, etc, it'll rise to about a 4 or 5. The temperatures of the liquids I drink also affect it. Hot coffee or ice water will make it go from 0 to 4 almost instantly when I swallow, but then it quickly subsides.
For the first few weeks, I ignored this because I just had a really awful flu where I was coughing A LOT, and I just assumed that the flu had damaged my throat and it would be a matter of time before it healed itself. Well, I'm now about a month out from the flu, and this throat pain is still there. I go from not worrying about it to suddenly being quite paranoid. Looking up throat pain symptoms doesn't help because there's such a range from "it's fine" to "you have Cancer", lol. Problem is that I have **NO** other symptoms. I feel fine. Heck, fantastic. This mild pain on the right side of my throat is just lingering along and I don't know what to make of it.
I do have a physical scheduled with my PCP next month. But in the meantime, I'm wondering what actual people think (and not just random articles that don't know the background of the situation). Thanks for any help you guys can provide!