I have had a bad sore throat for 10 days now. I first went to the doctor after the sore throat wouldn't go away after about 5 days. 4 days later, I went again. Both times the doctors simply told me that I had some sort of viral infection, and they couldn't do anything for me.
I don't like this at all. I'm not sick very often, and I rarely have a problem like this. I've tried tons of things to cure the sore throat: advil, lozenges, water, chloraseptic gargle, cepacol, etc...
All of these things help to cure the pain temporarily, but after they wear off the pain just comes back again. I also have blister-like sores on the roof of my mouth which cause pain when trying to swallow. The pain is worst in the morning.
I nearly got into a fight with the 2nd doctor about the whole issue. He claimed that sore throats from viruses can last up to 5 weeks. This is just not acceptable to me. Surely there can be something I can do about this, or some way I can find the cause of the pain!
2006-07-12
07:54:55
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Kevin P. O
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