Sore throat, painkillers not working, any ideas?
Last week I had a low grade fever and was generally lethargic. I was taking advil then to lower the fever, drinking ice water to help lower, tea with honey when I was home, and slept as much as I could. Lasted maybe 5 days of having the fever and 2 days after the fever broke I finally felt better.
Well now a full week later, I notice the other day that my throat was sort of feeling sore. Not too bad, I took a couple advil and it would be fine until it wore off. I would take one more (since I had been taking it a lot the last couple weeks and didn’t want to encourage any sort of immunity to its effects) when it started coming back and went to bed. I slept late today and woke up with the same sore throat – not terrible, but enough to have me head right for the Advil bottle when I woke up.
Well as the night progressed the pain became worse and Advil stopped doing the trick. I made sure to take one before I went to sleep but woke up 5 hours later from the pain in my throat. Earlier that day I went out and bought a throat spray, but that is only temporary relief. The spray will numb the back of my throat for a few minute and then wear off. I’ve taken more advil in the last hour than I’ve ever had to (even for a headache) and while it’s somewhat dulled the pain, it’s still there whenever I swallow (been drinking bottles of water since I woke up). I already went and gargled with salt water – second thing I did after I took the advil and it offered no relief. I haven’t tried tea and honey yet, only because its painful swallowing just regular water.
As for my throat, took a look at it with a flashlight. It is definitely red and irritated in the back of the throat and spreading to the right side of my tonsil. My right tonsil is definitely swollen and where most of the pain is originating from. There was a white substance on both tonsils, which I went at with a q-tip since I wasn’t sure if it was tonsillolith’s or something else. I deduced they are not tonsillolith’s so whatever it is, it is there. I don’t share drinks with anyone, I have a fiance, but we haven’t been kissing much since I’ve been a sicky sick so I don’t think its mono.
I’m thinking its strep throat, caused by tonsillitus because it should just be the whole shebang. I need antibiotics for it, no health insurance, but I’ll figure out something.
BUT that’s not the point, anyone have good remedies to reduce the pain besides throat spray, gargling salt water, or advil? I passed up the lozenges at the market the other day (picked up more advil since I was using so much lately) for the throat spray, perhaps the wrong choice.
I’m thinking ice cream too when it stops being 5 in the morning….
Note: I’m not suffering any other symptoms. No lethargy, fever, cough, runny nose, etc which normally comes with my strep throat. So it’s pretty weird feeling perfectly okay except for this nasty pain.
I was a sickly child with a lot of strep throat growing up…
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name is Lesli Paterson, and welcome to my blog. I created this blog to
help other people like me who are suffering with tonsil stones. 
chloroceptic (sp?) … its a spray that temporarily numbs
It sounds like you have Acute Tonsillitis. You need to have a course of antibiotics before it gets worse. So rush to a doctor to examine you. Don’t have any cold food or beverages. Gargle warm water with ½ spoon of cooking soda.
Try the household stuff, in the morning replace coffee with Tea and honey sounds dumb but it does work from time to time.
try ice cream, go to the walgreens or walmart or any pharmacy really for throat cooling spray something like that,
i’m going to tell you right now, No painkiller will help you.
One thing that happens a lot is the muscle under your chin gets tight and when it does it narrows the passageway in your throat. when that happens it makes it hard to swallow and even breathe. Here is how you can release that muscle:
Chin Muscle:
Place your thumbs under your chin near the front and press up and hold that pressure. After 30 seconds slowly raise your head until your neck is fully extended, release the pressure but hold your head there for another 30 seconds.
What Jibu Gurukkal said, but I can add that the pain of certain sore throats can be eased by taking a slice of lemon and lightly salting it, then lightly scraping your top teeth over it. I don’t know that it helps heal, but is a great pain killer.