Bloody throat! Any doctors around?

[Gymnoob]

Basically I had what I suspect was strep throat around 3 weeks ago.

Bloody awful. Thought I was actually going to die. Got antibiotics (5 day penicillin) and cleared up straight away. Thank the Lord.

After about 3/4 days of finishing that course it was back. Had another set of 5 penicillin. Went instantaneously.

Again another 3/4 days and it started scratching again. Some white spots and the fever/ cold sweats started again. Thankfully when scrabbling around in the medicine box I found a few old penicillin (no idea where they came from but in date). So took those for nearly 24 hours before the GP appointment. Managed to convince the woman to give me another set of antibiotics again (5 days of something beginning with C) but she was trying to play the viral card. So she also did a swab. That’s come back negative (on googling apparently it could be because I took that bloody penicillin which I obviously didn’t tell the doc).

Now about 5/6 days break this time and my throat is scratching again. No white spots yet but I think I can start to taste it again. I can’t believe is fucking happening. I might have got it from work as there’s people there with it now.

What on earth am I going to do about this! I cannot keep getting this bloody thing. It’s not just a sore throat for me. It’s fever, cold chills, can’t move, can’t eat, can’t sleep, severe fatigue, headache, ear pain, crazy daisy chain necklace of glands, even pins and needles.

They aren’t going to believe me it’s bacterial because of this negative swab!!!

But how can it not be if it disappears overnight with antibiotics!?

Any advice very welcome please 😭

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.

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

No-one can.

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.

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?

Not sure why I have upset you!

This is my fault for taking antibiotics unprescribed as stated in my initial OP. Otherwise the first swab would have shown it.

@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…,,

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.

@Maybeicanhelpyou 🤣 I’m going to take that as sarcasm

For anyone future to the thread this is supposed to be a good news update!!!

The NHS believed me when I confessed my illicit antibiotics. They found the strep. Hopefully onwards and upwards 🥳

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

I don’t know how to respond 😭 so have an emoji 🫠