To go into work with tonsillitis?

[singleandlooking]

Urgh, I’ve had a sore throat all day and just checked with a torch to see one lovely swollen, red tonsil with white spots. I’ve had a cold recently so it must have triggered it.

I’m due in work tomorrow, in an office which will involve client appointments (behind a covid screen). If I feel well enough, do I still go in? Last time I had tonsillitis I was on annual leave. Tonsillitis isn’t contagious is it?

YABU - stay at home

YANBU - go into work if you feel well enough

Last time I had tonsillitis I was signed off work for a week

It's not catching but don't go in. I remember nearly fainting when I went to school with it. Look after yourself. Get antibiotics. Take a few days.

As a tonsillits sufferer I'd really rather you stayed at home.
Although tonsillitis itself isn't contagious the thing your tonsils are protecting you from IS.
I have been at my most ill with tonsillitis and would be rather annoyed if I got it from someone who came to work with it.

(Plus I can never actually speak or swallow when I get it so would be a mumbling dribbling wreck and definitely NOT fit to face a client!)

If you actually had tonsillitis then there’s no way you’d be well enough to consider working.

If you feel well enough to go to work you haven't got tonsillitis, you've got a sore throat. I've had tonsillitis a few times in my life and it floored me.

I'd absolutely go to work with a sore throat.

You may just have a sore throat. Tonsillitis is generally really debilitating. Your whole body feels toxic, almost poisoned. And it won't generally shift without antibiotics. Certainly in my (extensive) experience you wouldn't feel anywhere near well enough to work. But stay home anyway. Don't risk spreading mank.

I would contact the GP for a sicknote if I were you for this coming week. Or self-cert and then get one off the GP for the week after. No WAY will you be fit for work if you do have tonsillitis.

How do you know it is tonsillitis @singleandlooking ?

@Alconleigh

You may just have a sore throat. Tonsillitis is generally really debilitating. Your whole body feels toxic, almost poisoned. And it won't generally shift without antibiotics. Certainly in my (extensive) experience you wouldn't feel anywhere near well enough to work. But stay home anyway. Don't risk spreading mank.

This. ^ Tonsillitis is fucking horrendous!

Tonisilitis can be either viral or bacterial and both have a degree of contagiousness to them. Viral being more contagious than bacterial, however bacterial often needs treatment and can turn very nasty if not looked after. Stay home, rest up and speak with a doctor if it's getting worse

Despite what PP are claiming, I have always gone to work with tonsillitis. And yes, it was definitely tonsillitis and I needed antibiotics every time. I felt like shit, but I was well enough to work.

@Tanfastic

If you feel well enough to go to work you haven't got tonsillitis, you've got a sore throat. I've had tonsillitis a few times in my life and it floored me.

I'd absolutely go to work with a sore throat.

Exactly. When I've had tonsillitis (over 30 years ago....will never forget how shit I felt) I couldn't get out of my bed. My enduring memory is crouching over the loo spitting in because even swallowing my own saliva was too painful.

I've never been able to work with tonsillitis! It's always made me bed bound.

@ChickenTikkaMoSalah

Despite what PP are claiming, I have always gone to work with tonsillitis. And yes, it was definitely tonsillitis and I needed antibiotics every time. I felt like shit, but I was well enough to work.

If you were 'well enough to work' it was NOT tonsillitis.

@LittleDandelionClock I’ve had a sore throat and white spots on the tonsils exactly like this before a few years ago, saw the GP who said it was tonsillitis and prescribed antibiotics. I’m guessing it’s the same thing but maybe it is just a sore throat as a tail end of the cold I had.

I get tonsillitis alot and a cold always triggers it too. Most of us who get it alot know the difference between a sore throat and tonsilitis. I can even tell whether mine is viral or bacterial before I even get to the gp. It also affects ppl differently.

My viral version doesn't normally floor me, this time it has because I've managed 2yrs to not get it so it got me harder. Even though I was wfh by day 3 I signed off sick for 4 days.

My bacterial version takes a week of feeling like I'm coming down with something to overnight flooring me. So yeah ill work up until its too much.

Pre covid I was getting tonsilitis at least 5 times in a yr. Sorrg but taking sick leave every single time is not really going to work for my company. So I only took it when it was at its worst otherwise I was at work.

100% agree with OP and PP that it can be mild. I had it so many times and just carried on. Diagnosed and ab prescribed. One time I nearly fainted but mostly it was just a horrendous soar throat. It's like saying it can't be covid if you are not bed bound. We don't all experience things in the same way.

It will be a sore throat....you couldn't work with tonsillitis ( temp...headache...fatigue....unable to swallow)

stay the fuck home

and get better soon

Tonsillitis affects people in different ways - I am always floored by it (ragin temperature, can't swallow, can't speak) and a weeping mess for a week or so even if I get antibiotics as soon as I feel it coming on. However I have friends who think its a 'mild' illness and are surprised by how ill it makes me.

I couldn't go to work with Tonsillitis but I know others who could.