The History

Some of the details here will be fuzzy but I'll get down what I can.

Got something like laryngitis at Christmas. It came and went with no great drama. I just lost my voice Christmas day and for a few days after.

About three weeks later I got a dose of guttate psoriasis. I don't remember how severe it was but I thought I could ignore it as I usually did.

Then I got a dose of tonsillitis on Tuesday the 25th Jan. Late that night I felt the lump in my neck and by the next day it was in full effect.

Went to the doctor's Wednesday and was told to ring on Thursday for an appointment on Friday to register. Joy. Definite green spots, the left tonsil looked like it had a mouth ulcer on it. Took Lemsip and Neurofen plus alternately so didn't overdose on either.

Woke Wednesday night in pain so took more Lemsip at about 2 in the morning. Slept pretty well then. Thursday was more of the same. I had a fever but didn't realise it at the time. It was a bad week in work so ended up in the office til after 8 every night. Checked my tonsils again and they were absolutely covered in green dots. I was fascinated by how defined and separate they were. Thursday night the cold was unbearable. I had my hot water bottle but I didn't feel like I desperately needed a painkiller last thing. Woke again at two, this time because the fever had broken and I had to remove all the layers I was wearing. Took another Lemsip at that point and slept fine again.

Registered at the doctors Friday morning. That went fine but I asked to see the doctor and when he came in he said it didn't look bacterial because there was no pus! Then it dawned on me I was better. All on my own. Boo. I said to the nurse one of the reasons I wanted antibiotics was so that I could prevent more psoriasis but she just nodded at that.

Not much I could do at that point.