it started like a regular soar throat it would come and go away at night would get worse i was really congested so took decongestant pills which made me cough like crazy spitting plegm which made soar throat worse when i ate something felt like knife splitting throat so i found amoxicilin pills i had started taking them just in c ase of bacterial infection but pain did not go away my husband would do teas for me which made it ok for like 10 minutes then would c ome back then soar throat came with earache and the two sides of the neck hurts really bad earache keeps c oming back even though use medicine for ears i take ibuprofin for pain so i can eat but the soar throat does not want to go away sometimes it cal ms down but then the ear hurts mor e then when i start coughing at night soar throat com e back im worried and dont know what i have dont know if strep throat or something else please help