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What is with the recurring sore throats?!?!!!

Right, this is really beginning to annoy me now.

Every morning for at least the past 2 weeks I've woken up hardly being able to swallow, I've had such a sore throad. I've tried every kind of cold/hot drink to remedy it - doesn't work, so now I take 2 Ibuprofen tablets every morning and within minutes I'm ok again. But I'm slightly concerned as to why these sore throats keep recurring, it's something I've never experienced before.

I don't have a throad infection or anything, my family have looked down my throad with a mini torch several times and say it doesn't look at all red. Meh. This is irritating :frown:

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red_roadkill
Right, this is really beginning to annoy me now.

Every morning for at least the past 2 weeks I've woken up hardly being able to swallow, I've had such a sore throad. I've tried every kind of cold/hot drink to remedy it - doesn't work, so now I take 2 Ibuprofen tablets every morning and within minutes I'm ok again. But I'm slightly concerned as to why these sore throats keep recurring, it's something I've never experienced before.

I don't have a throad infection or anything, my family have looked down my throad with a mini torch several times and say it doesn't look at all red. Meh. This is irritating :frown:


SAME HERE! :smile: since about Jan i've had sore throats at least once a month

And proper bad ones!!! HMFFF not fair :frown: :frown:
Reply 2
toncilitus??
Reply 3
Does your neck feel swollen? Could be glandular fever.
Reply 4
red_roadkill
Right, this is really beginning to annoy me now.

Every morning for at least the past 2 weeks I've woken up hardly being able to swallow, I've had such a sore throad. I've tried every kind of cold/hot drink to remedy it - doesn't work, so now I take 2 Ibuprofen tablets every morning and within minutes I'm ok again. But I'm slightly concerned as to why these sore throats keep recurring, it's something I've never experienced before.

I don't have a throad infection or anything, my family have looked down my throad with a mini torch several times and say it doesn't look at all red. Meh. This is irritating :frown:


Have you tried a product called Chloroseptic Spray? I think its by Vicks, you spray it down your throat and it numbs the area. Do you smoke, or are you regularly around people that do? If you still get them, visit your doctor as this might be a symptom of something else, a virus for example.
Reply 5
My throat was swollen this morning when I woke up, and it hasn't gone down. I'm going to the doctors tomorrow, hopefully I can have a blood test or something.
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red_roadkill
My throat was swollen this morning when I woke up, and it hasn't gone down. I'm going to the doctors tomorrow, hopefully I can have a blood test or something.

oh my god :eek:
Reply 7
LPK
oh my god :eek:


Lol. I think I'm gonna need one LPK! If the doctor things I might have glandular fever, anyway.
Reply 8
red_roadkill
My throat was swollen this morning when I woke up, and it hasn't gone down. I'm going to the doctors tomorrow, hopefully I can have a blood test or something.

You kissed anyone recently? Oh, and if your doc thinks it is, if they are anything like mine they will test you for everything else at the same time, i got tested for AIDS when they tested me for glandular fever :eek:. Lots of bottles taken.
Reply 9
deej2
You kissed anyone recently?


Nope :frown:
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red_roadkill
Nope :frown:

Well that is strange, glandualr fever is transferred through saliva.
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deej2
Well that is strange, glandualr fever is transferred through saliva.


Hopefully I don't have it, though!
Reply 12
red_roadkill
Hopefully I don't have it, though!

Why not? Eh eh eh!
Reply 13
Sore throats are bloody annoying and are sometimes due to a bad immunity system like mine! Perhaps you should try taking multi vitamins? They keep sore throats away from me!

vince
I ahd that once I bought loads of sore throat sweets but I kept drinking hot lemon with a tiny bit of sugar in and it actually worked! xx
Reply 15
I had that not so long ago too, my mum forced me to gargle TCP - nasty, but it worked.
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red_roadkill
Lol. I think I'm gonna need one LPK! If the doctor things I might have glandular fever, anyway.

I think i may need another 1, but i am hoping i don't :eek:
Reply 17
No way! i have had a sore throat about once a week for a couple of days for about 4 weeks now....i think maybe i caught a virus and transferred it to my toothbrush then i kept re-catching it and today i threw my toothbrush out so hopefully it should stop. my throat is so sore atm, it hurts to swallow :frown: but its only one of my tonsils
try gargling with aspirin? sometimes i get sore throats if my room's too stuffy, if you don't already sleep with your window open at night then give it ago - seems really simple but it can work!
When I was in the UK, I had a terrible sore throat. I dragged myself to the GP and he said it "looked viral." When I asked him to give me a test he said no...guess he was overworked and underpaid. I was very surprised b/c in the US they would have given me a test for strep throat (a bacterial infection) and even a blood test had I asked. But then again the insurance co is paying the bill in the US. Well after a week I was able to get out of bed, but I still didn't feel great.

So when I went home for Easter holiday a month after I had "recovered" my mother (who is a doctor) looked at my throat and was shocked. Turns out I'd had a really terrible strep infection, which when untreated has terrible side effects (rheumatic fever!). She realized that I'd had it because my hands and feet completely peeled...because the bacteria kills the skin as it courses through your body! How disgusting is that! I was so upset that I'd been sick for a month. She gave me antibiotics and my glands went down within two days.

So...the moral of the story is, if you aren't sure about your sore throat, keep begging your doctor to test you. It's not worth it to be ill for weeks on end. Maybe even go see a private doctor?