Bloody throat! Any doctors around?

@BurnoutGP @Gymnoob
It genuinely wasn’t meant as sarcasm. The fact that you think it is, is exactly why I’m leaving.🥲

Glad you got sorted op - I was coming on to agree with a previous poster to be careful as ds had similar and ended up extremely ill with scarlet fever and a skin infection. Currently on his second ten day course of antibiotics.

@Gymnoob@BurnoutGP Another medic here!
i can’t believe you don’t know why you’ve upset the gp!! You have to be kidding!

Patients just don’t listen, do what they want, then moan……. then complain when treatment doesn’t work

I give up too….. I’m going to retire early, take a job in a field that doesn’t involve direct patient contact. There already aren’t enough medics, but there you go…,,

But surely, if the OP wasn't getting anywhere with her GP, what else would you expect her to do?

Of course, she would like to get a second opinion from another doctor, but that is not possible so the next best thing is to talk to other people to see if she is being unreasonable or not and to see if anyone has had a similar experience.

What should the OP have done? Just suffered in silence?

No of course. I'm sure mumsnet knows much more. And Google. And SoMe. And my aunty's friends mum.
I actually don't care any more.
Read the book Mania.

I am sure you are an excellent GP, but you cannot possibly know everything.

No-one can.

All these people who think they know better than the actual doctors. I have no idea why I worked my socks off at school, went to uni for 5 years. Did years of undergraduate training. Then more years of GP training. And 20+ years as an actual GP. Of course you know better. 🙄
I'm just so done with all. This dumbing down of expertise. Thank fuck my children don't want to go into medicine. Just counting the time till I can get the fuck out.

@Gymnoob she's at uni. She was sent away from a&e once. She went straight back the following morning. Held up her phone to the receptionist "I can't speak, I can't eat". That got her seen!

You can get a prescription from an online doctor. You need to take a probiotic too.

https://www.londondoctorsclinic.co.uk/online-doctor/?infinity=ict2~net~gaw~cmp~1455238737~ag~58111409753~ar~515745369093~kw~online%20doctor~mt~b~acr~8755831475&infinity=ict2~net~gaw~ar~515745369093~kw~online%20doctor~mt~b~cmp~1455238737~ag~58111409753&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADn0-rl3cDaYrwapT8dCk3BJi7dZy&gclid=CjwKCAjwrIixBhBbEiwACEqDJYON50mF3BK0k-gVmVgBNCWg0lEkapsgWxyaca1fiLtRbn5wyXQ9zhoC-s8QAvD_BwE

I'm doing this at the moment and it helps so much. I'm getting a bit clearer of the cold/flu lurgy which seems to be doing the rounds. Really frequent unproductive coughs which have had me being sick (bringing up even water I've been sipping to calm my throat). Gargling with (preferably) warm salt water during the day but also just before going to bed - really has helped me sleep. Also keeping my bedroom cooler at night (if necessary keeping a window open a bit). Also I've been avoiding anything dairy. I also used vapour rub on my chest and the glands under the jaw. 🌹

Gargle with soluble aspirin.

Do you gargle with salt water?

Poor you, sounds horrendous. I think people underestimate how awful such a thing can make you feel.

I have appalling tonsillitis and have since I was a child and the throat doesnt sort itself out it was go on for weeks. Fortunately my current GP knows this and will give me antibiotics. I used to get it once a year I have to say I’m better since Covid. I have only had it once.

Go back to your GP.

Re toothbrushes, I'd probably just get two and then sterilise with denture tablets or baby bottle sterilising fluids.

I think people underestimate quite how bad tonsillitis can be, I was hospitalised twice for intravenous antibiotics. In hindsight I actually probably had glandular fever ( they tested but it came back negative but apparently you get a lot of false negatives) however it came up as having had a previous infection in my blood work.

Not a medic but I was told viral tonsillitis can develop into secondary bacterial tonsillitis As swollenn tonsils are breeding ground for bacteria so it’s entirely possible to have underlying virus plus bacterial infection. I found gargling dissolvable aspirin effective until they whipped them out.

I had an awful throat with pneumonia, which started last October & didn't completely clear until February this year. I couldn't swallow food unless it was wet & completely smooth, anything like bread, toast, chips etc stuck to the sides of my throat & made me throw up. I lived on gazpacho & ice cream for nearly 2 months & could only drink iced drinks through a straw, my mouth was full of sores, my lips split open & bled every time I tried to open my mouth to eat. The pain was 10/10 I ended up taking age 6+ Calpol & Ibuprofen liquid as I couldn't swallow tablets due to the state of my throat. The one thing that helped me was to inhale steam with Olbas oil or Vicks in it, I did that every 2 hours during the day & I slept propped up both to help my breathing & stop me choking on my own saliva.

Maybe you need steroids combined with the antibiotics? The combination has worked for 3 couple of people I know.

My daughter had similar. Back & forth to Gp for not quite enough antibiotics. All term. She ended up in a&e with quinsy (an infected abscess behind her tonsil) which had to be lanced & drained. Intravenous antibiotics.
Don't be fobbed off.