I've had what I thought was a tonsil stone in my throat for months now. It's not giving me any symptoms, though it seems to be getting bigger over time. I tried to remove it with hacking cough, salt gargle, gentle poking - all the usual stuff. Nothing would shift it and it seems quite solid. I have had a tonsil stone once before, but that was soft and just coughed up in my sleep.
Bit the bullet and went to the doctor this week, as I heard a doctor can remove tonsil stones, and I was getting sick of looking at it. He poked at it for about ten minutes until it started to hurt, but got nowhere. He told me it was probably a cyst, but that I should ask my dentist to have a look, and they could refer me to an ENT if necessary. He said it might need to be drained, if it is a cyst, that it'll be full of pus and he didn't want to poke any more at it in case it burst.
My question is: would you wait a month to see the dentist about this? It's been there for months already and I'm not showing any symptoms, so I don't think it's likely to be serious. But I was a bit thrown by his fear of it bursting. That wasn't something I'd even considered. Asking the dentist about a throat issue seems strange, and he knows I can't get an appointment until the end of March. So he obviously doesn't think it's urgent.
Just looking for opinions on it, really. Has anyone been sent to the dentist with something like this? Would you give it much thought? Try to get it seen sooner? Or just not worry about it?
I've attached the clearest pictures I could get. Blurred them because mouth pictures are always a bit yucky! It's like it's pushing the tonsil out to form these folds on either side, which, now that I think about it, is not how that tonsil normally looks. But maybe I'm overthinking