Thanks for the reassurance Teevster. Went to the clinic today. Was diagnosed with tonsillitis. Doctor gave me some antibiotics and something for the pain.
Then he did the Std testing. All of em at once. I was not prepared for the procedure! Definitely a special kind of experience.
Got another appointment on Monday. We'll see how it goes.
@Will_V , the possibility is definitely there. Gonna hit up a covid test center later on.
Kez
Speaking from experience, I would strongly recommend that you DO NOT take amoxicillin or any penicillin-based antibiotics UNTIL you have negative results from a mononucleosis test (and during the period in which mono may surface). Hopefully the doctor did not give you one of these?
This post is giving me not-so-good flashbacks because I had bacterial tonsillitis and mononucleosis simultaneously. Days after a lay, I had a terrible swelling of the tonsils/sore throat, fever/sweats, lymph node swelling, extreme fatigue, etc. Naturally, I was very concerned that it must have been an STD.
The doctor had diagnosed me with bacterial tonsillitis both from an exam and blood tests, and prescribed me Cefdinir. I took that for two weeks, but it didn’t clear up the infection and everything still felt awful.
So, I went back to doctor after that as things were starting to get even worse and was told as it was a bad infection, sometimes a longer dosage of antibiotics is necessary. I was prescribed a two-weeks dose of amoxicillin this time instead.
Well, I take the amoxicillin for a while. And then my lymph nodes start to become even bigger golf balls and my fever shoots up to absurd levels. Over the next few days, an ungodly red rash develops all over my body. I was thinking that maybe it was a (baaaaad) STD that didn’t have enough time to appear with the previous testing or I was allergic to the amoxicillin, so I go back to the doctor in the most miserable health I’ve ever been in.
They’re like hmmmmm, and do a mononucleosis test. Guess what, I’m positive!
Ooooooops, they say, because amoxicillin can sometimes cause a terrible rash when used in conjunction with mononucleosis.
They were treating the bacterial tonsillitis, but they didn’t consider that the possibility for mononucleosis to emerge (and yes, I gave them an account and timeline of my sexual activity). So yeah the bacterial tonsillitis came first, never healed, got worse again, and then the mononucleosis (and that FUCKING, COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY RASH) occurred in the following weeks. I must say that taking my final exams during this period while I was feeling like I was hit by a truck, could barely eat feeling like I had razors in my throat, and Benedryl smattered all over my body... that this was without a doubt among the worst experiences of my life.
I can tell you more about what happened after this (in short, the bacterial tonsillitis infections kept reoccurring and I eventually had to get my tonsils/adenoids removed), but the specific details may not really be relevant to you at this stage and I can give more info if it comes to it. Overall, I’m just urging you strongly to make sure that your doctors are good and on-top of-things to the best of your own judgement, be more risk-averse with your actions in the future, and become a very, well-informed patient (which Teevster has surely helped very much with here).
Hoping you get well as soon as possible.
If that's all you have, then you will be fine (although you will suffer for a few days).
