Tonsillitis after op

[birkie]

HI

I had a toral thoyroidectemy on wed 8th may this year...everything was going to plan then on sun I began to find it harder to swallow my pain shot up..upshot is it have developed a bad case of tonsillitis some thing I cud do without..as I find it almost impossible to keep any kind of antibiotics down I'd rather try to Get rid of them without antibiotics as anyone else suffered this after thiyroid removal...xx

[MaisieGray]

Unless you've been blood tested to rule it out, the tonsillitis could be viral, in which case antibiotics wouldn't help.

[birkie in reply to MaisieGray]

I soupose I need to weight the pros and cons...belive me I have been on several kinds of antibiotics oral and intravenous with anti sickness and every time I have vomited severely they are bad memories for me my consultant gave me them in 2015 because I was bleeding from my mouth and backpassage he tried me on 4 types I vomited on them all..again just this Feb I had a lung infection my Gp again gave me antibiotics again I vomited so with that in mind I'm very reluctant to use them in don't want to be sick with stitches in my kneck...

[MaisieGray in reply to birkie]

Yes that was my point, if the tonsillitis is viral rather than bacterial in origin, antibiotics wouldn't help in any case; and no one, but especially given situations such as yours, should be randomly prescribed antibiotics if the cause isn't known to be bacterial.

[Greekchick]

Hi birkie,

So sorry to hear about this! You were doing so well. I would get a throat culture to be sure you don’t have a bacterial infection. If it’s viral, just liquids and rest. If it’s bacterial you will need to treat it I’m afraid - or it may develop into something worse.

Take good care and hope you feel better soon!!!