My Experience of Tonsillitis

I happen to be experiencing a severe bout of tonsillitis as I write and it is such an unpleasant experience. It must have started the weekend before last I was stressed out with the relationship I was having and then my boyfriend came all the way to visit me at university on the Friday just to break up with me. I was already run down from the previous weekend as I had to get 2 rabies vaccinations, typhoid, polio and various other boosters for my field trip to Goa India in April. During that weekend I also had to help an e tablet victim back from a night club as one of my best friends at university is a resident assistant on the Saturday night, and ...  Read the complete review

Sorry if you were expecting the Guggenheim. That is what I was going to write about today, but feeling like I’d ODed on travel ops recently, I thought a nice illness one would be the way to go…. Oh, tonsillitis. I managed to avoid this as a child, sticking instead to the usual collection of chicken pox and measles, with numerous sprained and bruised body parts thrown in for good measure. However less than a week ago I was diagnosed with this everso fun disease, and this is the story. I arrived back from the States on a Monday morning at about 8am. It took me about 24 hours to get over the jet lag (mainly because I had to go into lectures 3 ...  Read the complete review

As a child, I was quite small for my age. Always one of the smallest in the class and always ill with a bad throat. Id hate to think how many days off school I had with Tonsillitis. As I started Secondary School, It continued to get worse. I was never really rid of it. In October of 1987, aged 13, It finally got too much. With my Mum in tow, we demanded to see an Ear,nose and Throat specialist. We were seen just after my Christmas and luckily I had a particularly bad throat at the time. We went into the office at St Johns Hospital in Chelmsford for the appointment and the specialist had one look. He said, "they have got to come out, they ...  Read the complete review

My throat thinks so too!! Update!!!OH, the pain. Well as we speak l am in the throws of yet another bout of ‘Tonsillitis’. So you will have to excuse my voice as l can only whisper so l apologise in advance if you can’t hear me! I have had this disorder every year (sometimes more than once) since l was about 15 (l’m now 42, that means l have had it at least 27 times). I have today been back to the doctors who now reckon l have a kidney infection to go with it. But that’s another story entirely. I will explain about the disorder that is my lifelong companion, Tonsillitis. What is it? Well tonsillitis is an inflammation of ...  Read the complete review