Does ulcers on the tonsils necessarily be throat ulcers?

Could I have Penicillin resistant strep throat?

• I put something deep in my mouth this weekend that just came out of another girls mouth so I figured that’s how I got Strep throat. It was a very aggressive strain because I went from feeling fine to death bed sick (ulcers in throat, head, join pain and 103 degree fever) I thought I would die before I could get to the doctor the next morning. I went to the doctor and tested positive and got a shot of rocephin and a bottle of penicillin. She did that 5 minute test and it was bright stripes positive in 3 minutes. I did not start feeling better for about 12 hours and within 16 hours the fever broke and 24 hours the yellow green puss balls feel off of my tonsils. What is upsetting me is that just as my fever broke I felt one of the puss balls in my tonsils leak and then my neck glands just under my jaw blew up like golf balls and now my ears hurt and my neck is stiff. Now is this just a last fu from being sick or is the penicillin not killing it and now I have Meningitis? Also, now that I

• Answer:

  Relax. Antibiotics take a couple days to fully kick in- so you actually starting showing some improvement fairly quickly. You can thank the shot of Rocephin for that. The lymph gland swelling is not anything big, you have a known infection, and the lymph system is on alert. The increase in lymph fluid and the increased production of white blood cells to fight it off are the reason those are swollen and tender. You should have 10 days worth of antibiotics, and you need to take each and every tablet. You aren't going to feel wonderful for a few days yet, possibly not for a full week. And you did not get strep throat that quickly, the incubation time is somewhere between 2-5 days. Anybody who has had strep throat in the past month could be responsible, since you can shed the virus for a full month after you recover- and if it wasn't treated it's highly likely you will. You are describing the typical course of illness for strep throat. It is nasty, which is why folks who have it fuss so much about it. The five minute test normally reacts within 2-5 minutes, your reaction time was not any quicker than most. It's not likely you have an antibiotic resistant type of strep either, or you would not have seen the improvement at all. So just relax here. Keep taking the medicine, drink loads of fluids- until your molars float. Eat what you can get down, and rest. You should continue to improve from here on out. The lymph glands may stay swollen and tender for a few weeks, but that is also normal. They may well go back down as you finish the medication. Just chill, you aren't dying. You probably do feel like it, but you won't.