Thanks. I actually feel better today. My throat really doesn't hurt anymore. With these white spots, I have them one day and they are gone the next. I am thinking that it is something viral but my dr was never able to culture them. In february I had a sinus infection and strep at the same time. My dr cultured some of the mucus that I was coughing up and the strep was actually in the mucus, which indicated to him that I had it all the way down in my throat as well as in my sinuses. The thing is though, I had previously been on an anti-biotic (Avelox) and it did NOTHING! So my ENT specialist prescribed Ceftin for 10 days, and that got rid of it. I am not one to wait around when I don't feel well... if I get sick I go to the dr. And yesterday my allergist looked in my throat and said he didn't see anything abnormal except for the white spot, and that my throat wasn't even red. My neck also feels better today, so I am not going to run to the dr unless I start to feel worse again.

Now with these white spots, they don't only occur when I have strep. So does anybody have any clue what they could be caused by? Sometimes they do stick around and then I usually have a tonsil infection, but that is pretty rare for me.

Well now it seems that I have tonsillitis and possibly an upper respiratory infection. I had a very difficult time getting an appointment to see my own dr yesterday and having been sick for the past 5 days I was desperate to see someone, so I went to the student health center at my college and saw a nurse practicioner. This would have been just fine, had she actually known what she was doing! It took 4 tries for her to get my blood pressure! She did a 5 minute strep test and it came back negative. She examined me and said I probably needed an anti-biotic because my throat was so red and I had so many little white spots. But she wouldn't give me one because I have too many allergies to anti-biotics and she didn't know what to give me! I TOLD her exactly what I can take..... Ceftin, Lorabid, Levaquin, Avelox, Zithromax, Clindamycin, and a few other ones that slip my mind at the moment. Nobody there was familiar with any of these and refused to prescribe one for me, even though I clearly needed an anti-biotic! So, I walked around with no medicine for another 24 hours until I got to see my own dr because these people didn't know how to look something up in a PDR.

Anyway, I finally got to see my ENT specialist today. I wouldn't have been able to see my Primary Care Dr until tomorrow! So my ENT dr got me in today. I've got a lot of those little white spots on my tonsils, fever of 100-102 for the last 5 days, coughing up green stuff, bad sinus headaches and a sore throat, swollen tonsils and bad laryngitis. He didn't say that I have a sinus infection, said it looks more like tonsillitis. And I was wondering why I had those little white spots last week. I wonder no more... :) So, now I am on AcquaTab-C for the congestion and cough, and Lorabid 400mg 2X a day for 10 days for the infection. He told me I could stop it after 7 days if I feel significantly better, but I think I will continue it for the full 10 days no matter what, so I don't get a relapse! The fun never ends! UGH!!!!!



[This message has been edited by purple2067 (edited 04-15-2003).]