I am a 20 year old female and my tonsils have been swollen for about two and a half weeks straight with the opposite of improvement. My tonsils are super swollen and red with no other symptoms other than intense neck and muscle pain that I suffer from chronically. The knots and general tightness in my neck tend to flair up when I become stressed/anxious; could those factors also affect the tonsils? I normally smoke a lot of marijuana, but have been laying off hoping to help out my tonsils, and have seen no difference or improvement in them. I saw the doctor a couple days ago and all she said was that the tonsils need to come out(her exact words were that my tonsils look very angry with me) and gave me a number to contact an ent, but what am I supposed to do in the mean time? I don't really have time to wait around and "rest" hoping for them to get better, and probably won't have time to schedule an appointment with the ent for at least another week...I drink lots of water and have been taking a lot of ibuprofen for the tonsil pain to the point that it's probably unhealthy(around 20 200 mg pills a day) and can no longer sleep because of it! Agh make it go away!!