Penicillin

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 10:31, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

yup, totally
but it'll still hurt like a total bitch for about 3 days. i normally alternate lemsip with reeeeally cold drinks to try and stop it, but wondered if anyone had any better suggestions?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 10:33, Reply)

Yeah, 3 dys is about the time it takes for the antibiotics to kick in for bacterial tonsilitis.
If it's viral you'll feel shit for a week or two, if you don't take antibiotics you'll probably feel shit for a week or two.

Unless of course it isn't tonsilitis and you've just got a bit of a sore throat and a case of the snuffly wufflies. In which case MTFU.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 10:36, Reply)

Aaaand there's my first click of the day.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 10:38, Reply)

nah, this bitch is tonsillitis alright, i've had it before
i get it about once every 2 years, nowhere near enough or badly enough to have them out, just enough to give me a reeeeally miserable 3 days. it feels like i've been deepthroating a mach 3.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 10:39, Reply)

Try any old antibiotics you have knocking about the house.
If they are the right sort, they will work quickly.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 10:51, Reply)

but i want the pain to stop NOW

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 10:51, Reply)

Isn't that a bit like saying
paint that scratch on the car with any old paint, if it's the same colour it will match?
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 10:52, Reply)

No.
Nothing like that.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 10:54, Reply)

In fact, dont' even bother checking if they are antibiotics, just start necking any pills you have lying around the house

(Bazongaloid, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 10:52, Reply)

Obv check they are antibiotics and prescribed to you originally.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 10:53, Reply)

Or blue
If they are blue it's fine
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 10:55, Reply)

I'd be concerned that, if you're the sort of person who doesn't finish course of antibiotics, despite it being critical that you do so
that you are probably the sort of person who doesn't keep their antibiotics in a suitable place i.e. not in the bathroom where the humidity can rapidly cause the active ingredients to degrade
(Bazongaloid, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 11:01, Reply)

He keeps them in the sweets cupboard, where the kids can reach

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 11:02, Reply)

Who ever finishes the course?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 11:04, Reply)

Winners

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 11:05, Reply)

I'm confused
Because on Mike Tyson's Punch Out it used to say "Winners Don't Do Drugs"
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 11:10, Reply)

Golfers

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 11:06, Reply)

I do.
*takes last anit-biotic in the course* for all the good they've done me. :(
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 10 Oct 2011, 11:06, Reply)

Not worked on your ear ache?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 11:09, Reply)

Not really
It stopped hurting but still deaf and all other symptom persist. Might be beginning to see the other side of it now (nearly 2 weeks in) Off to the docs in a bit, hoping they can stop me being deaf at least.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 10 Oct 2011, 11:12, Reply)

Pardon?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 11:23, Reply)

Ear doesn't hurt but is still deaf.
I have what feels like a heavy cold, which I assume is related to the ear infection as it's lasted two weeks, anti-biotics have made no reall difference. susupect it's viral.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 10 Oct 2011, 11:26, Reply)