Have you been cultured for strep? To me, strep always feels like someone is sticking the point of a knife into my throat as hard as they can. Viral sore throats usually feel like someone rubbed my entire throat with coarse sandpaper and then sprinkled some salt in for good measure. But that's just me. If it's strep, you really should get some amoxicillin.
Either way, send rfrench (or jackiecat, or somebody!) to the health food store to get some Thayers Slippery Elm throat lozenges (http://www.thayers.com/slipperyelm.html). Especially if it's the sandpaper feeling, these things really do help ease the pain. A bottle of 150 (http://www.internatural-alternative-health.com/ingr/ingr156020.cfm) is probably around $10 or less, or you can get a smaller package first to see if you like them. They don't claim to fix the problem, they just coat the mucus membranes of the throat, which feels very soothing. Give it a try, unless you get better so fast that you don't have time! (Well, one can hope!)
[Please ignore that silliness by some weird writer person.]
Strep: I haven't this time 'round. But I don't have the characteristic white stuff in the throat and I do have other upper respiratory symptoms, so I think this is just my usual "CJ's throat always gets bad".
I have slippery elm in the form of Throat Coat Tea. That stuff is AWESOME. I've gone through most of a box now. Chloraseptic does squat for that stabby pain right in the tonsils, but slippery elm at least soothes it some. Yay for slippery elm!
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Have you been cultured for strep? To me, strep always feels like someone is sticking the point of a knife into my throat as hard as they can. Viral sore throats usually feel like someone rubbed my entire throat with coarse sandpaper and then sprinkled some salt in for good measure. But that's just me. If it's strep, you really should get some amoxicillin.
Either way, send
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Strep: I haven't this time 'round. But I don't have the characteristic white stuff in the throat and I do have other upper respiratory symptoms, so I think this is just my usual "CJ's throat always gets bad".
I have slippery elm in the form of Throat Coat Tea. That stuff is AWESOME. I've gone through most of a box now. Chloraseptic does squat for that stabby pain right in the tonsils, but slippery elm at least soothes it some. Yay for slippery elm!