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Originally Posted by Suzie 123
Hi Linn. I get it just in a few spots on the gums but almost always throat and ear is affected. What did you mean by you understand the tonsil thing, did you also think this is what yours could be? This is so crazy but gotta keep going. I just hope this bout doesn't last too long, I certainly enough when I'm not having to deal with this!
Thanks
Suzie  |
Suzie,
I did think that I kept getting tonsil infections, or peritonsilar infections. I was dx'd with carotidynia in 2002 (although I've had this stuff for decades), and I don't think I actually understood or believed it. I went in just recently to beg the new ENT to check to see if it couldn't just be a persistent infection. I do have fistulas (or holes) in my throat, further down, which leak air into my neck tissues, so I thought that might be "evidence". He was very thorough with ruling out the infection thing, though, much to my dismay. That would have been so much easier to have dealt with ;-). I had an hour or so of disappointment that evening, then I got over it.
I seem to get hit at the beginning of every winter, for sure, and it lasts for months. I was hoping to ward it off this winter, but I had the flu, and so here I am, settling in for the "long haul". I stocked up on some good audiobooks, and I'm about to be an Auntie again, so lots of crocheting to do -- I am prepared :-).
Linn