I'm a 27 year old with an only one enlarged tonsil, which has been up for well over twelve months. I have had quite a few infections with double doses of antibiotics doing absolutely nothing except relieving my neck lumps.
The problem I find is that I have never experienced a sore throat. I have only gone to the doctors when my neck begins to ache quite badly only to find that my glands and lymph nodes? are up, and to find out that I have acute tonsillitis. So why does my neck hurt and not my throat. It has never inhibited my speech in any way.
I am due to go in to get my tonsil removed in 5 days. Now my other tonsil has decided to come to the party and get big, not sore, but again my neck is lumpy and sore. Do I have the wrong end of the stick and in fact a lumpy sore neck is tonsillitis?
So the question I ask is why is the doctor and surgeon so worried about a big tonsil that doesn't hurt but abviously contributes to a lumpy neck.
The problem I find is that I have never experienced a sore throat. I have only gone to the doctors when my neck begins to ache quite badly only to find that my glands and lymph nodes? are up, and to find out that I have acute tonsillitis. So why does my neck hurt and not my throat. It has never inhibited my speech in any way.
I am due to go in to get my tonsil removed in 5 days. Now my other tonsil has decided to come to the party and get big, not sore, but again my neck is lumpy and sore. Do I have the wrong end of the stick and in fact a lumpy sore neck is tonsillitis?
So the question I ask is why is the doctor and surgeon so worried about a big tonsil that doesn't hurt but abviously contributes to a lumpy neck.
I'm in a similar boat... my neck isn't exactly lumpy but my main problems are my glands and lymph nodes which are very sore and I've been coughing up plegm, muscus and horrible thick saliva for months now. My throat has been a bit sore but not too bad... so to find out it was all because of my tonsils was a bit of a shock!
I am pregnant and have an enlarged tonsil. Does anyone know if this is ok? How to treat it?