tonsillitis deb for the love of pete i'm twenty years old and have the disease of a 6-year-old!!! can't drink, can't eat, can't swallow what i try to can't talk, can't breathe, can't go to work (like i really ever wanted to) something's wrong with this picture just make it go away i'm begging here 010212 ... j_blue thats how it is alot of people experience this in their early twenties whenever i had an infection, i would develop a paratonsilear abcess, which would always have to be drained i had maybe 3 or four of these (great intro to the health care system, didnt have insurance, and couldnt afford the tonsilectomy (treatment of choice) until i got a job that offered insurance) could be worse, i still have bills from the time before insurance, which i have to pay in addition to school debt life sucks 010212 ... deb no no, tonsillitis alone wouldn't be poetic enough for me, especially missing all week at work and all- no, let's see what ELSE we can throw in the mix... oh, I KNOW!!! strep! give her STREPtonsillitis!! that should make her week! thrilled, i'm sure 010214 ... owl it sucks so much i had it earlier this year was directed not to speak for two days, thats really hard for me, when it first started it felt like my throat was bleeding. 010426 ... Arwyn I've had it 3 years in a row... is that long enough to get the damn things out? I'm so tired of looking down my throat and seeing them swollen 020227 ... Alejandro whoa the doctor just said i had it on friday 031214 ... green tshirt sux 070508 ... did I get it about once ever year, and I'm not a kid anymore. 070509 what's it to you? who go blather from