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That's only for little kids, right?
Wrong.
Woke up last Thursday with a chronically sore throat
and it felt like there was something caught in it.
Spent all day trying to cough up whatever it was.
By that evening I'd given up and decided to just look in there.
Had the tell-tale white spots on my tonsils and uvula, and my uvula
was swollen to the point that it was touching the back of my tongue.
Ah, so I'd spent all day trying to cough out my uvula.
Luckily it stayed in.
Since strep is bacterial, the first thing everybody wants you to do is a course of penicillin.
I'm not a fan of antibiotics, so I decided to see if I could
just ride it out and strengthen my immunity against it.
Not really any cold symptoms, mainly just
a very sore throat and pressure headaches.
So for the last four days it's been very painful to swallow anything,
but since my wife is an amazing cook, I ate whatever she was serving.
Cough drops were not helping much, and I tried three different kinds.
I did get considerable relief from hot water with lemon
juice and honey, so I've been sipping a lot of that.
Plenty of Nyquil and ibuprofen to help me sleep through it (those are natural, right?).
Finally this morning I woke up and was able to swallow without wincing.
Throat is still a little sore, but definitely feels like it's healing.
No more white spots, just redness, and my uvula is shrinking back to normal size.
I've been carefully trying not to infect the rest of my
family, and so far none of them seem to have gotten it.
Wrong.
Woke up last Thursday with a chronically sore throat
and it felt like there was something caught in it.
Spent all day trying to cough up whatever it was.
By that evening I'd given up and decided to just look in there.
Had the tell-tale white spots on my tonsils and uvula, and my uvula
was swollen to the point that it was touching the back of my tongue.
Ah, so I'd spent all day trying to cough out my uvula.
Luckily it stayed in.
Since strep is bacterial, the first thing everybody wants you to do is a course of penicillin.
I'm not a fan of antibiotics, so I decided to see if I could
just ride it out and strengthen my immunity against it.
Not really any cold symptoms, mainly just
a very sore throat and pressure headaches.
So for the last four days it's been very painful to swallow anything,
but since my wife is an amazing cook, I ate whatever she was serving.
Cough drops were not helping much, and I tried three different kinds.
I did get considerable relief from hot water with lemon
juice and honey, so I've been sipping a lot of that.
Plenty of Nyquil and ibuprofen to help me sleep through it (those are natural, right?).
Finally this morning I woke up and was able to swallow without wincing.
Throat is still a little sore, but definitely feels like it's healing.
No more white spots, just redness, and my uvula is shrinking back to normal size.
I've been carefully trying not to infect the rest of my
family, and so far none of them seem to have gotten it.
