Tonsilitis in an adult - how long til back to normal?

[chachachachacha]

10 days ago I started getting tonsilitis (I thought it was hayfever so didn't see the doc til friday which was when it started getting really painful to swallow). Doc didn't give me any medication and told me to take paracetamol and ibuprofen and gargling with salt water. Pus has cleared up from tonsils and I'm feeling more like my old self apart from on one side of my neck my gland is literally the size of a golf ball and hasn't gone down since friday.

WWYD? Should I call the doc back and see if it's anything else or wait for the swelling to go down. One doc said it would take about weeks! Its bloody painful and the painkillers aren't making a difference.

I've got tonsilitus at the moment, so you have my sympathies. My doc said that tonsilitus can sometimes lead to glandular fever, might that be worth querying?

I've only had mine since friday, and it is AWFUL

Am sick of having it! Every year, twice.
Just got it again, been to docs and been prescribed antibiotics so hope this will knock it on the head.
AIBU to think 5 weeks is too long to be suffering!!

WAHHHH!!! I haven't had it for about 20 year - Hinny - does yours last five weeks?

3-6 weeks usually, the first week feeling rough, the second and third getting more and more sore and then the tonsillitis jumps in!
I've been getting on top of it with Resolve Extra (gargling with it!) but it's too sore now.
Hope yours gets better soon chacha!

Chacha - I'd be inclined to go back to the docs for a check-up. I'm really surprised they didn't give you any antibiotics for it. I know they don't if they think it's viral but if in doubt, they could take a swab to check.

5 weeks is a really long time Hinny. I've been feeling sorry for myself as I've just got over my second bout this year (first one was only a month ago) and I'm starting to average 3 bouts a year but at least I recover much more quickly. Probably 3 days of awful, awful pain and then gradually improve over the next week.

Went back to see my regular doc yesterday who was shocked at the size of my neck and that I hadn't been given any anti-b's. It was an out of hours doc that I'd seen) She prescribed me a bumper course to start taking, took a swab and is sending me to get a blood test to check for glandular fever.

Ended up back at the out of hours last night as I thought I'd had a reaction to pencillin as as soon as I'd taken it my temp rose to 40 degrees and I started shivering. Turns out that was just the tonsilitis as I'd forgotten to take paracetamol earlier in the day. The doc I saw was concerned that my gland was so big that it may develop into an absess. Fingers crossed the anti-b's do their work.

Am taking the day off work and recuperating in bed. Phew.