I had it when I was 17, and i remember the searing pain everytime i swallowed, and even worse when i sneezed! (which was bad because i had it in summer when i get hayfever). One thing that helped which i remembered well was lying on my back and eating ice lollies, letting the cool icy juiceness fall down my throat and soothe my stinging throat. I think it lasted a while and it took me some time to feel normal again. Ever since i had it i seem to get an annual sore throat which i wonder is a reactivation of the virus?
(flying-fox, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:54, 1 reply)

Interesting you
say that Flying Fox, I get the same once a year, sore glands and then a harmless cold to follow most of the time. Not sure if this is true but they say once you have had it, you always have it, it just never becomes fully active again.


My way of easing the pain was to drink scolding hot cups of tea, it was the only thing I could swallow without wincing, ice cream was good but the doc advised me to stay away from dairy :(
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:18, closed)

Yeah, the same happens to me.
Mostly past it now, but if I have a heavy weekend of any type it can sometimes come back and fuck my skull for a while.

I like to call it the delayed hangover.
( gone, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:25, closed)

I feel your pain brother

(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:33, closed)

Herpesviridae...
the family the virus belongs to (i'm a geeky virologist) is a sneaky lil critter which likes to hide in the body and awaken from time to time. I learnt in uni that even chicken pox which is also a herpes virus stays dormant and comes out again in your 40s! Not sure about this one but it always seems to come about early October time, and whatever it is it leaves me with a red-raw throat for about 10 days :(

The tea helped too, and then I found this wonderful stuff called diflam which numbed everything in my mouth :D
(flying-fox, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 22:02, closed)