My tonsils

[huyu]

This isn't normal, is it?
I get tonsillitis often but I'm actually struggling to swallow at all and feel like my throat is bruised.
Attached a photo of what they look like.

Is this an out of hours doctor problem?

Huyu, I had mine taken out at the end of 2016 having suffered for over a year with bacterial tonsillitis (white pus, feverish, rounds of antibiotics) and tbh it was the best decision I've ever made.

I told the surgeon at my pre-op consultation that I didn't want to know how he planned on removing them as I'd tried to read the leaflet about the different ways and was nearly sick. So he simply went over the steps without details of removal.

Yes, recovery was shit and I had a bleed after about a week (think it was blood building up behind the wound site rather than actual bleeding iyswim) but once I was fully healed (I had over a month off work) I have had barely any illness since.

Get each bout recorded as you need to have had several episodes within a year to qualify for surgery.

I would get them looked at if you're in a lot of pain and it feels worse than when you usually have tonsillitis. I also get tonsillitis regularly and there is definitely a difference between normal tonsillitis and really struggling to swallow.

I ended up with quinsy a couple of weeks ago and spent two nights in hospital on a drip and having the abscess drained as my GP sent me to a&e. It's dangerous to leave quinsy apparently. It's also very painful!

Here are mine before and after a 2 day stay in hospital as they were afraid that they would completely obstruct my airway (I could barely breathe anyway).
Definitely keep an eye on them, I went to the GP twice before they got this bad and unfortunately tonsillitis is most commonly caused by viruses so antibiotics won’t be any help so you just have to put up with it for a few days :(
Gargle paracetamol dissolved in warm water as this will help with them if they are sore!

Tbh I’d go, I put it off last time & went 3 days after it started. 10 days of penicillin and I spent that week in bed only waking up to take them.

Within a few hours of the first dose it was like someone putting a fire out in my throat but I was physically wiped out for weeks after.

I have similar problem to you, and just went to a private ENT last week.
I was told that if someone has tonsillitis often but other then that sore throats that would flare up occasionally, that's chronic tonsillitis.
GP was not much use to me. They do not prescribe antibiotics unless you have high temperature, but with chronic tonsillitis you don't have high temperatures.
Antibiotics would help you though.
Always helped me. Common cause of persistent sore throat is strep infection. I was prescribed antibiotics once by a private doctor after GP refused me.
However after 5 courses of antibiotics last year and much suffering I have decided to have a tonsillectomy