Sore throat for 4weeks?

[stevo as b4]

I've had a mild sore throat, and funny taste in my mouth for nearly 4weeks now. I can feel it when I swallow food too. I did go to the doc also 2wks ago and was told I did not have a throat infection, but just 2blobs of white stuff whatever he called it either side of my throat. These have now gone, and I have no white spots in the area.

Doc says it should get better by itself, but 2weeks later a constant tickly sore throat is slowly starting to piss me off. Has anyone had anything like this before, and how long can it take a sore throat to get better? I've taken a load of paracetemal and cough syrup over the last 2weeks, but stopped now due to the cost of meds and the fact that it's not really painful, just irritating.

Should I waste another day off work that could have been a shed tinkering day, to go back to doc for another check or is there anything else I can take that might sort it out?

[Commuter_Tim]

Valid concern is valid, although I don't know what help you plan to get from BCF.

GPs are lazy and overworked and inexperienced these days it seems.

I think sometimes they forget people can die when they get lazy.
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[wr6133]

Sounds like you swallow to much, spit more often the sailors won't mind they may just pay less

[metalangel]

Any mouth ulcers? I would get massive ones due to stress, right at th back of my mouth next to my throat, and they'd feel just like a sore throat and take about two weeks to heal.
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[Ed Case]

Been munching on the bearded clam ?.

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Oral thrush?
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[Ariel Badger]

Been noshing sailors off?
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[scorps]

sounds like ebolaids, you are finished. Soz and all that
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[kawakid]

I had it and I had it for probably over a year.

I got so used to having a sore throat, I would always be sucking boiled sweets.

Now the strange thing is, I saw the doctor, he told me my tonsils don't look good and should be removed. I said something like can't you give me some tablets to make them better, he said no, so I left.

6 months later (still with constant sore throats), I goes back and he says you need your tonsils out.

I got my tonsils out....

I have zero medical knowledge, so I would just see someone who does.

FFS We are in the UK, it's free to see a doctor, it's free to have an operation, just go.
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[covent.gardens]

Similar symptoms when I had tonsillitis.

[duhawkz]

Try some Difflam throat spray see if that helps.

https://www.chemistdirect.co.uk/difflam-throat-spray/prd-2o5

You can buy it over the counter from the chemists. I had weird sore throat a while back and it seemed to help.
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[stevo as b4]

Yeah it's more than likely the bad aids!
Was hoping it would be something more simple and easily fixed though, but the amount of needles I've had in my arm in the last 2years has probably not helped.

I might try a few different throat sweets, and go and waste another 1/2 day waiting to see the doc, who I thought last time was on more drugs than I am.

Sorry I don't know any sailors though, or anyone with beards and neither do I like clam shells.

[Rogerborg]

Dibs on bike(s) and/or girlfriend(s).
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[M-C]

Deep throating's for pros!

[RhynoCZ]

Just get it checked at a GP or stop being the wife in your relationship.
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