I got sick (like a bad head cold, not quite the flu) over the new year holiday. I had the symptoms of what seemed to be a sinus infection, so I went to my physician.

He put me on a 10 day run of amoxicillin. Towards the end of that I started to feel better, almost to 100%. No more than two days afterwards I started getting an irritated throat again.

I went back to the doctor and he put me on allegra-d (i have mild allergies and he thought this might clear me up. It is working very well on my sinuses (i have no blockage when i'm on the medication, but I will blow my nose in the morning and its still that infected green color).

This was last week, and now I have a very strange throat problem. It seems like once every other day or so I get a sharp pain in my throat when swallowing (not with food, slightly less with a drink). The pain was strictly on the right side of my throat, right around the adams apple. My tonsils are always a little on the large side, especially the right one. One night the pain 'jumped' to the other side and it was very! Painful.

I've been told it could be anything from a bacterial infection that didn't completely go away, something viral, glandular problems, or messed up tonsils. Ibuporfin helps a bit with the pain.

Anyone have any ideas of what might be causing this? It will be a couple days before I can get another appointment. Basically this is not unbearable but very annoying, and its been around for a few weeks already! Thank you.