To go to the gp again even though I went yesterday?

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I had an appointment with the nurse practitioner yesterday for a very sore throat. I can't eat or drink without a lot of pain, even breathing through my mouth hurts.

The nurse said my throat was very inflamed with yellow spots but because my temp was 36 I didn't need antibiotics.

The thing is I very rarely get a fever, even when I've had a raging chest infection needing steroids. My normal temperature is 37.5 and when I'm ill it tends to drop to 36.5 or less. I tried to tell the nurse this but my throat hurts to talk and she wouldn't listen.

I've hardly slept the last two nights because my throat hurts so much and it s swollen it feels like I'm choking. TMI alert but it even hurts to swallow spit so sometimes I've had to spit into a tissue and this morning there's streaks of blood in it.

Would ibu to try and see a gp today even though I saw the nurse yesterday?

I was prescribed co dydramol and a stronger version of ibuprofen on one bad case. Magical they were!

Hi Tiny, how are you feeling now? Hope the anti-bs have kicked in.

You did the right thing by seeing a doctor. A friend of the family died from some sort of septic shock that started off as strep throat. Tonsil problems are often dismissed as being just a virus, but it's scary how many things can go wrong with them!