sore throat for one year now

Hi

Are u still having the pain in your throat? Two years ago I had a sore throat for an entire year. From the time I woke up til the time I went to bed. Now its back again its going on a month. Im praying it will not last over a year. Ive been to every specialist,ent, . They say it was acid refux. Ive been on every medicine. Im miserable. not even pain relivers give me relief. Is there any one out there who can help. Please reply

I've been suffering from something very similar for over 3 years. I've had my tonsils out, a reflux operation called a Fundoplication, and a septoplasty/turbonate reduction surgery, and none of those have eased the chronic throat pain.

Does anyone have any advice?

I've been dealing with sore throats now since I was in 6 years old, I'm now 34. 3-4 good months and the other are bad, antibiotics have hepled through out the years, but 2015 has been very unforgiving non-stop sore throats. I still have my tonsils, which might be the next step. But what I have noticed over the years is that cold temps and certain foods/spicies trigger my throat to flare up. I live in Florida and when I lived alone I had my AC off and had a fan belowing from the chest down, which greatly reduced my flare ups, humidity and no direct air blowing on my face is key for me. I now have a 3 year old, so that's definately something that could be causing it, plus the wife sleeps with the ac on 77 degrees. I have to sleep with towel or shirt over my face for relief.

This advice is based on my own personal experience. Take this advice at your own risk.

You must consult your doctor. Do not self medicate.

Sore throat is normally caused initially by a virus infection but subsequently becomes a bacteria infection. It can be caused by insufficient sleep or eating spicy food like food laced with chillies, jalapeno or food added with too much pepper, curry, oily fried food or drinking soup with oil droplets in them. It can also be caused by inhaling dust particles from haze or even from persistent stress at work or infection from other people.

On the initial onset of throat infection, try gurgling with salt water or listerine by

looking up at the ceiling while gurgling to dislodge any oil droplets attached to  your throat. Do not swallow the salt or listerine solution. It is meant to be spitted out after gurgling.

If this does not work, take a tablet of 1000mg dosage Redoxon vitamin C by dropping it in a glass of water. Wait for the efferversence to complete before drinking it. This is generally effective for sore throat caused by insufficient sleep and not by bacteria infection. Please note that you can only take this once a while. Never take excessive vitamin C of this high dosage daily, otherwise you may develop kidney stones.

It is better to drink lemon drink often to boost up your vitamin C requirement as it

also helps to prevent kidney stone formation. If that still does not work, take lozenges. It only works if your sore throat is not severe. Otherwise, it is ineffective. Taking too much lozenges or for prolonged period is also not good for your kidney function.

Doctors normally prescribe antibiotics to a patient when he or she is suffering from a fever or swollen tonsils or the throat becomes very reddish.

The antibiotics prescribed are normally either:

ampicillin or

amoxycillin or amoxicillin or

augmentin (amoxicillin/clavulanate potassium)

Dosage for Ampicillin or amoxycillin:

Adult dosage: 250 mg per capsule, normally taken 2 capsules at one time.

Child dosage: 125 mg per 5 ml or 7.5 ml in liquid form depending on age and body weight.

Baby or toddler dosage: unknown or could be 50 mg per 5 ml (check with your doctor)

Ampicillin or amoxycillin is normally taken thrice a day for a period of 5 consecutive days.

Augmentin comes in 650 mg dosage and is normally taken twice a day for a period of 5 consecutive days.

In terms of strength of the medicine, augmentin is the strongest, followed by

amoxycillin and then ampicillin. These medicines are normally obtained through

prescription only. However, for some countries, you can buy them over the counter from pharmacies.

For other countries, they may be controlled and can only be bought with a doctor's prescription. The objective is to prevent abuse of medication or to prevent new strains of bacteria from developing resistance to them if misuse.

You have to complete the course of medication and do not stop taking them until you finish the course of antibiotics in 5 consecutive days otherwise any surviving bacteria will build resistance to the drug.

 

Normally paracetamol (panadol) and serrazyme (topal) are prescribed together to lower the fever and reduce the swelling of the throat respectively. If your sore throat causes dry cough later, doctor may prescribe dhasedyl cough syrup for you too. Dhasedyl cough syrup may cause drowsiness or sleepiness. Please do not take this cough syrup if you are driving or manning some factory machineries as you may doze off and endangers your life.

You must have enough sleep and drink enough water. Eat enough fruits daily.

Your medication will not work if you do not have enough sleep or you do not drink enough water daily. Avoid oily, fried, spicy food like curry, jalapeno or chillies. Do not take the medicine and Vitamin C or fruit juice concurrently as the vitamin C or fruit juice will dilute the effectiveness of the medicine. The medicine is generally alkaline in nature while the fruit juice or vitamin C is acidic. Both when combined will neutralize each other to some extent, thereby nullifying the effectiveness of the medication.

How to prevent sore throat from recurring:

Take vitamin C e.g. Redoxon every 2 or 3 days once. Dosage depends on age e.g. 250 mg for adults and 100mg for children. Do not take excessive of it.

Have enough sleep. Drink 7 to 8 glasses of water a day, spreading them out.

Drink fruit juice every other day .e.g lemon or other fruit juice if you do not wish to take vitamin C. It is in fact a better and healthier option. You can buy concentrated fruit juice. Then dissolve it with water in a glass. In that way, it is more economical.

Remember no amount of medicine can cure your sore throat if you do not have enough sleep or water.

And lastly, do not abuse antibiotics.

From my diagnosis of what you say about your symptoms, it looks like you are lacking in vitamin C. Drink fruit juice daily but not excessively or take vitamin C every other day. Hope this helps.

Hi all,

I had similar situation here as well, sore throat for over 9 months now, pain but not serious pain every single mins, I tried antibiotic, multiple home remedies, being ENT, nothing works, since yesterday, I start drinking green tea with honey, and after eat a table spoon of coconut oil, then dont eat /drink until next meal, I have to say it help a lot, being over monthes and monthes pain, i felt good relief of the pain today, I dont know how this works, but i will keep doing it , hopefully help others with same problem, it makes me so depressed.

This is really interesting. I have been suffering from recurring poor health ever since I had my son (3 & a half years ago). I seem to catch everything and never fully get rid of it. Mainly colds/flu but also recurring coughs and sore throat. Currently I have such a sore throat can hardly swallow. Been to GP who told me just to "ride it out!". Ive been constantly choking for a week now and cant keep food or liquid down and have had very little sleep. After insisting the GP is going to do bloods but done this last year and found nothing wrong - again like others implying that it in my head. One GP actually put me on antidepressants for these recurring coughs and colds!

I have a small cut inside my ear, its been there for over 2 years and have been wondering if this has anything to do with my sore throats as it is mainly this side of my throat that hurts most. Also my ear is really sore at the moment too - can't lie on it to sleep.

Any help gratefully appreciated