Tonsillitis and ear pain - HELP!

[NewMum0305]

Have come down with tonsillitis and am in agony. Mainly my left tonsil though it’s my left ear which is causing the most pain.

I have taken the first two doses of antibiotics though the doctor wasn’t 100% sure it was bacterial.

I’ve also tried:

• warm flannel against my ear
• Warm olive oil in my ear (temporarily soothed my ear though the throat pain remained)
• throat spray
• lozenges
• nurofen and paracetamol (think I’m nearing the maximum 24 hour doses)
• gargling warm salt water
• honey and lemon drinks (temporarily takes the edge off)

Is there anything else I can try? I’ve had tonsillitis plenty of times but this is a new level of pain.

Ouch you poor thing.

Lie gently on a Hot water bottle.

I found Solpadeine Max effective for this kind of pain, it has codeine in so you don’t want to rely on it for long but it HELPS.

Keep a flask of hot water with you and sip it constantly.

A steamy bath my help but do not let yourself get chilled when you come out.

Go to bed and rest. You may feel better propped up.

Thank you so much. I will try all of those. Really appreciate it x

Try gargling with soluble aspirin.

Oh you poor thing. Defo keep an eye on it - just had a similar thing - tonsilitis and ear infection - do persist on getting further treatment if no improvement. The sitting up definitely helps

Hello@NewMum0305 are you any better? I've had much the same symptoms and am two days into antibiotics and starting to panic as not feeling any better - last night was worse. My tonsils and tongue are full of pus. I've never had this before. It's also my left side ear neck and throat that's much worse 😥 any updates to give me hope?

Yes, today is my first day of being able to swallow without wincing. I did go back to the doctor and was prescribed Naproxen (stronger version of Ibuprofen) on Wednesday though as was in so much pain and between that at Sopadeine Max, was able to just about keep on top of the pain in the interim.

If you’re not feeling better by tomorrow, I would go back to the doctor as I’ve previously had to change to different antibiotics when the original courses wasn’t doing anything (I get tonsillitis constantly).

Very best of luck and hope you feel better soon - it’s so horrible!

I had this back in February twice - the ear pain was awful. To be honest my ears continued hurting for about three weeks.

Paracetamol took a slight edge off.

I hope you feel better soon!