I'm going for Englebert having his own account! 

It's officially post-watershed.

Ickles comment above was about not being able to vote from the iPhone.... not about the actual tonsil (though that is depressing also...  but we are having to laugh about it, rather than cry)

She'll be laughing soon...   she's waiting for her meds to kick in

Every time someone sees my tonsils I feel a little bit better

I have seen them 3 times! (Somehow I can't resist scrolling back   )

Every time someone sees my tonsils I feel a little bit better

Well if it makes you feel better ,lets have a peek .

unfortunately for those that have voted for options 2 & 5..   I am probably going to ignore your votes and post the pic anyway   (she wants me to, and she's poorly, I have a hard time saying no when she's poorly) 

But, in the interests of not putting anyone off their dinner, I will post it as a link... 

https://twitter.com/Meeyafao/s...338776272897/photo/1

Say hello to Englebert!! 

Shame she doesn't have a matching one on the other side....then she could have called them Jedward! 

I am sure there are plenty of people round here that would think that would be a much more appropriate name 

I just thought I would get in first  

Even Frankie's shocked

awww...  she'll like that!   Thank you Erin xx

She's gone to bed now (quick whilst her co codamol are working)...   

I'm dead worried about her actually, but we're doing what we do best, keeping our spirits up with humour!

She'll love the Frankie gif 

She's very welcome .I wish her a speedy recovery .

Yes please, I love a manky photo.

I just wish the digital age was around when I was a teen/early 20's lass, I used to get some right mankt throat infections.

I've posted a link further up Cinds 

*scrolls* 

I scrolled, I saw.  I have had that manky ulcerated throat from glandular fever, I have all sympathy for your bairn.

really?

that actually makes me feel a bit better...   I have never seen anything like that before in my life!!   It was pretty bad when she had the initial 6 month bout of GF, and they are usually pretty bad during (thankfully shorter) relapses...  

but I've never seen anything like the state they are in at the moment.

To hear that its part & parcel of Glandular Fever is a relief in a way..   

thank you xx

I voted for "post it as a link". But I'm nosey, so I looked anyway.

I used to get tonsillitis a lot when I was in my teens and twenties, but I don't think it was ever as bad as that! Poor Ickle, I hope she gets well soon.

Ditty, how old is Miss Ditty?  

I had glandular fever at 19, and relapsed for a couple of years after. The ulcers never came until I had relapses, the worst one being when I was 21 and I was even more ill than with the glandular fever, so ill, my Mother even took time off work to stay home with me, because I puked for over a week constantly because of the infection running into my stomach from the burst ulcers in my throat.  I was so ill I couldn't even stand up right, Mam & Dad had to carry me to the loo.

 Imagine being 21/22 and your parents having to toilet you, not nice.

thank you Yogi 

yeah I used to get tonsillitis too Yogi...   everytime I got to the top of the waiting list to have them removed they would have to cancel it because I had tonsillitis.

I ended up having them out "semi urgent" when I was 12...  and have never had tonsillitis since.

I think they should consider taking Ickle's out...    cos like you say, as bad as mine used to be when I was a kid, it was never anything like hers is now.

and i thought i suffered badly with tonsillitus (sp) hope she feels better soon

My son used to suffer like that - I remember when he was about twelve complaining of a sore throat as we travelled home from holiday - when we got home after a  28 hour journey I looked and he had both tonsils like that - very painful and not nice. I so hope she recovers soon - poor girl 

She's 19.    She got it when she was 17.   Was ill with it pretty much constantly for 6 months (kept trying to go back to school, & just ending up ill again)...  both the throat thing & the fatigue.

Since then she's had a few relapses, usually lasting a week or two.   They had been getting milder, we thought she seemed to be getting some sort of immune system back again (it totally knocked her immune system out...   slightest wiff of a cold going round & she would be proper ill again).

Its been 8 months since her last relapse...  we thought we were out of the woods.   She's done all the things she was told to do...   she goes to bed most nights before 10pm, eats healthily, avoids stress etc.

And then on Sunday evening ... WHAM...   this came out of nowhere.

Started with the throat (ulcerated straight away)...    and the fatigue...    no temperature though.

Saw the GP today..   he has taken throat swabs, and given her penicillin (in case its tonsillitis or a secondary bacterial infection from the GF).    We know the penicillin is unlikely to work...   it never has before.

Reading what you have said has made my resolve to keep hassling the doctors if its keeps getting worse.

Thing is...   cos she was away at school (& they automatically transfered her medical records to the GP close to the school)..  there is a lack of continiuty of care.     She had the initial blood tests for GF here, and they came back negative twice.    But the Oxshott GP took one look at her and said it was absolutely definitely GF.    She was back at our GP today, and its like starting from scratch again.

I bloody hate Glandular Fever...   its a nightmare!   Its just not fair that it keeps knocking her back when she is working so hard to get on with her life. 

My immune system is the same, i was having tonsillitus (sp) twice a month for about 2 yrs now it seems to have stopped (touch wood) but if daughter has a cold i've got it by the next day, daughter now suffers with it as well and hers are massive but she doesn't seem to suffer as much as me, it knocks me off my feet when i get it, even my eyelashes hurt

Ask to have them removed Aimee...   honestly -  I used to be ill for about 6 months a year with it when I was a kid  (my mum lost count of the number of christmas's where I would be too ill to open my pressies on xmas day)... 

I had them out & have never had it since!

Tonsillitis is horrible!   I used to get raging ear ache with it too 

Ditts, I know what you mean, but she'll be fine, once she get's it all out of her system, she'll be ok.  

I used to get tonsillitis every few months right through my childhood, but never bad enough that they would remove them, but bad enough that I was too ill to get out of bed for days at a time.  Even hallucinating with the fevers that came with it.

But since I got over the back lash of GF, I have never been ill with tonsillitis again.  I have had throat infections, but not ones that knocked me off my feet like it used to, 

One of the other things she had when she had the initial bout of GF was an enlarged & tender spleen.   She was banned from doing any form of PE for a year because of the risk of her rupturing it.

When she's had the other relapses her spleen hasn't hurt or been tender, but it is this time!

Oh... I really hope this isn't gonna be a mega-relapse like Cinds had!

She's already delayed uni by a year to retake physics (cos she only got a B last year, because of all the time off school she had had... and cos she was having a relapse during the exams)...  

Her physics exam in on 11th June.     She only has to get a "High C" in it to get the overall A she needs for her AAA offer from Imperial.

THANKFULLY...   she has an unconditional offer from UCL...    and whilst I know she really wants to go to Imperial, it might be that she just can't - through no fault of her own.

I'm hoping this relapse will be relatively short lived...   and she will be better in time for the exam...   even if she is - she's still missing out on doing revision right now (though, bless her, she is still trying to do a couple of hours a day)

*sigh*   I know deep down it will all be ok in the end...   

That's good to know thank you!

& yeah...  I used to hallucinate with tonsillitis too..   I can remember charging around the house delirious..  and my dad carrying me, walking around the garden in the middle of the night in winter - to try and bring me out of it & stop seeing the monsters that were terrifying me.

I am thankful that the GF doesn't have the mega high temperature (or it hasn't so far) that tonsillitis has.

I did have a date to have them removed but i was a single mum with a young child at the time and i was frightened if anything happened to me who would have lil Aims and talked myself out of having it done i have been ok for the last few years so fingers crossed

My brother went in to have his out when he was about 8 and my mum asked the doctor to look in my throat while we was visiting him and he said she has it now my poor mum was getting my brother sorted and theirs me with it

lil Aims was ill last week with a sore throat and when i looked she had the white pleb telltale signs so i got her an appointment with the doctors and they said it was a virus, so gave her nothing you know yourself when you've got it

Yeah... you do don't you. 

We have had a similar experience today with the GP.

Bizarrely, Ickle DOES have a virus and yet they gave her antibiotics!!   Your daughter has a bacterial infection and they give her nothing & tell her its a virus!!

TWISTED!!     <---- laughing cos if I don't I will cry!  

I know it'a not funny, but I remember screaming for my mother during one of my 'temperature hallucinations' because I was convinced 'GOD' was playing marbles with me, and I was the marble that if his marble hit me I would die.  I was 12, but I still remember it.

and I understand bottling the op Aims...    before I met MrD and got married I was terrified of anything happening to me cos of the "who will look after the kids" thing!  

It was one of those things that used to keep me awake at night worrying about it

Mine was always the same type of hallucination...   and have only had it once as an adult (again when I had a high temp)... 

everything goes big...  it doesn't sound scary...  but it really is.    Even when I am awake everything is big and is closing in on my, even my own hand in front of my face is getting huge...    it makes me need to run..   when I was a kid there were monsters behind the furnishings or whatever was in the room... pressing forward and getting big...  I couldn't see them.. but I knew they were there. 

hahaha...  I can vividly remember it even now.

I'd run terrified around the house and if a parent or someone tried to grab hold of me I would be freaking out & pushing them away... 

it was at this point my dad would carry me out into the cold air to try to snap me out of it. 

I'm so glad neither of my kids did anything freaky like that 

I had to have a op on my nose when she was a bit older (about 6) and i left letters for everyone telling them what to do with her if i didn't make it through