So it's pretty painless and doesn't bother me much. My tonsils are still swollen with small spots on pus on it. My breath smells bad, but not REALLY bad. I went to the doctor and he told me that I have pharyngitis, and then gave me some steroids in pills. My voice sounds weird and that's only because on my tonsils being swollen. It's been like this for a week and two days. When is it going away? I am a bit paranoid that it might be something else. Should I get my tonsils removed? My mom is making the situation worse than it already is. Anyway, how do you get pharyngitis? Can it be from Oral sex? or from the Air? Where do you get it from?