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i will be so happy when i am 100% well.
The present symptom is a sore throat. (The main one. There is also some head-sniffliness and some annoying coughing. There's also occasional pressure in my ear, but I'm getting pretty good at telling when that's TMJ, which is mostly.) It is very sore, mainly on the right side, and not in the usual scratchy-from-too-much-throat-clearing way (although the PND and attendant throat-clearing are not entirely absent, of course). In fact it feels almost as if the throat muscle is sore - if I keep still everything is fine, but if I flex anything back there, say to yawn or to swallow, it hurts like hell.
Odd.
My tonsils seem to be a little bit swollen, but not in a way you'd worry about or anything. There's hardly any redness, and no dreaded white spots that would have me skedaddling to a doctor for a culture (though, you know, I always fail the rapid strep test and they always give me antibiotics anyway and they always help - so what's the deal with doing that test in the first place, is my question). But there is a sort of lump or polyp on the right side, in one of those folds back there; I can just see it when I open wide (ow) and look with a flashlight. Chloraseptic throat spray helps a little bit, but numbing the skin is only going to get you so far when the pain is from swelling underneath the skin innit? Advil helps quite a lot, and I believe it is doing so in its anti-inflammatory capacity. I can also manage to gargle some Listerine, which I figure can't hurt, although I think the sore spot is further back than what gets gargled on, at least when I do it. (It's a big effort to do it at all, thanks to my prizewinning gag reflex.) I am choosing for now to assume this is an ordinary sore spot, a boo-boo, basically, that happens to be in my throat where it's causing more discomfort than it would if it were on the back of my hand, and it will go away on its own. But if it's still giving me trouble on Saturday, that will have been six and a half days, so I'll go to the doctor and hope they've got a better answer (and, I mean, hopefully one that involves a pharmaceutical solution, and not one that involves medical professionals going yikes and reaching for their scalpels), because next weekend - next weekend! - I'm going to see my baby nephew and I don't want to have the kind of visit where I have to sit on the opposite side of the room from him the whole time.
Odd.
My tonsils seem to be a little bit swollen, but not in a way you'd worry about or anything. There's hardly any redness, and no dreaded white spots that would have me skedaddling to a doctor for a culture (though, you know, I always fail the rapid strep test and they always give me antibiotics anyway and they always help - so what's the deal with doing that test in the first place, is my question). But there is a sort of lump or polyp on the right side, in one of those folds back there; I can just see it when I open wide (ow) and look with a flashlight. Chloraseptic throat spray helps a little bit, but numbing the skin is only going to get you so far when the pain is from swelling underneath the skin innit? Advil helps quite a lot, and I believe it is doing so in its anti-inflammatory capacity. I can also manage to gargle some Listerine, which I figure can't hurt, although I think the sore spot is further back than what gets gargled on, at least when I do it. (It's a big effort to do it at all, thanks to my prizewinning gag reflex.) I am choosing for now to assume this is an ordinary sore spot, a boo-boo, basically, that happens to be in my throat where it's causing more discomfort than it would if it were on the back of my hand, and it will go away on its own. But if it's still giving me trouble on Saturday, that will have been six and a half days, so I'll go to the doctor and hope they've got a better answer (and, I mean, hopefully one that involves a pharmaceutical solution, and not one that involves medical professionals going yikes and reaching for their scalpels), because next weekend - next weekend! - I'm going to see my baby nephew and I don't want to have the kind of visit where I have to sit on the opposite side of the room from him the whole time.