Chronic tonsilitis?

Since October 2017 I've had issues with my tonsils. I first noticed I had a foul taste in my mouth, a sore throat and white patches on my tonsils. I just left it, yet while the white patches started to go, the tonsils got bigger and the taste remained. The taste buds on the back of my mouth became huge. I mentioned this at my dentist appointment and the dentist said "oh it's inflammed but it's normal you don't have to do anything." Normal? they've never been like this in my life. My tongue is always coated and I do my best to clean it out but stuff is still trapped between those gigantic taste buds, I barely had to even clean my tongue before all this, it was always pink and smooth.  

As well as this I've lost a lot of my taste and smell, most food tastes like cardboard, and I can barely smell. I was taking some stuff out of the washing machine, and when it's been there too long or it's overloaded and you get that horrible smell. My mum came in and choked "that stinks it needs rewashing!" I couldn't smell a thing. It's almost like the passage between my nose and mouth is blocked, I also snore when I never used to. 

While the white patches have gone (I now still have some white stringy stuff on there, whatever that is) I do get some puss that comes from the tonsils every so often. The back of my throat also often has red patches. The tonsils have NEVER gone down since last October, so it's not reccurent, it just never left, besides the white patches. 

I've had several times where I've been off work for days when it has been particularly bad and I've had a fever. I'm off work right now.

I think I also have some sort of salivary gland issue, I had my lymph nodes scanned as they've been up in my neck for this whole time (scan determined they weren't clinically enlarged, however have been palpable despite never having been in the past) and they found that the lump I had behind my left ear was an enlarged parotid gland. And I have discomfort down the sides of my face often. I also get flushed in the face and chest very easily, when I didn't used to. 

I used to go to the gym all the time, I loved it. I haven't been since all this started because I can't breathe properly with the back of my nose thing and the tonsils. It's making me beyond depressed. I finally have an ENT appointment in a month's time. I begged and begged and begged my GP until she caved. For all these months she's been saying "it's just a virus, it's just a virus" "oh I suppose your tonsils are slighly enlarged". This has turned my world upside down and she's just insisting it's nothing. She thinks I should just get used to it. I'm in a long distance relationship and I'll be seeing my bf soon. I just feel like a fat lump with bad breath who snores, I don't know how much longer I can go on living like this. Would removal of the tonsils help me? Would they even allow it??? I feel like I'm at my wit's end and that my doctor is making me feel like I'm crazy or imagining it all. 

One photo is right now and the other with the patches is last October. 

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