should I go to the GP for this? 😬

[lemonelmo]

Yeah, a yellow spot is likely a tonsil stone. White spots are usually a sign of infection.
Check Dr Google... although I always think I'm dying of terminal cancer doing this

I've diagnosed myself as dead about 59 times so far from using Dr Google

 

[Geranium]

Why not pop into your local chemist and ask the pharmacist for advice? X

 

[BettyCrocker]

Pop into see a pharmacist at your local chemist - see what they say!

 

[Apple In My Pie]

Thank you everybody. I am waiting it out. [too tired to actually go anywhere]
Alternating between honey and lemon, strepsils and throat spray lol!
I did think it was a tonsil stone actually - I quite like digging them out but it doesn’t move or anything. It looks like a little zit, I almost want to squeeze it.
Dr Google has diagnosed me with tonsillitis, strep throat and oesophageal cancer simultaneously. If I succumb to my throat based doom in the next forty eight hours I will invite you all to my funeral. Please wear pink

Also — I didn’t realise you could go to the pharmacist and ask about stuff like this, stupidly?!
Today I learned!

 

[Yoghurtpots]

Yeah, a yellow spot is likely a tonsil stone. White spots are usually a sign of infection.
Check Dr Google... although I always think I'm dying of terminal cancer doing this

 

[Apple In My Pie]

Disclaimer I know tattlers aren’t fully qualified gps lol. I’m not really a sickly person but I hate feeling like I’m wasting GP time...

I have a cold. I know I have a cold.
Sunday afternoon my throat felt dry and like I had food stuck in my throat. Spent all of Sunday coughing.
Fast forward to now, have what is obviously a cold. Throat sore, but very very itchy and dry at the same time. And If I look in the back of my mouth I can see a yellow spot, like a pimple, but on I think my tonsil area. Just one! Poked at it with a cotton bud (try and soothe itch!) but nothing. It just hurt.

It feels a bit silly? It’s just the one spot so surely not tonsillitis, but I know I have a cold so I don’t want the gp to be like... ‘why come here for this’

 

[Dolly]

Hey Apple i think you have a tonsil stone - it’s a real thing - eating dry toast should scratch it off

 

[Fatima]

What is a tonsil stone

A tonsil stone is formed when debris, such as food, dead cells, and other substances, become trapped on the tonsils.

 

[Keepitw0nky]

You could try gargling warm salt water, honey and lemon drink and colloidal silver spray is an antibacterial which can stop you needing antibiotics if you use it early and regularly.

 

[pinksparkles91]

Thanks for sharing this I've learnt something new haha! Hope you feel better soo

 

[Toiletbrushzoflo]

Just see the doctor better to be safe then sorry

 

[Bobby bunny]

What is a tonsil stone

 

[Fatima]

The digging and the squeezing : definitely tonsil stone.
Thanks to you, I found myself watching compilation of people removing their tonsil stones

Today I learned too !

 

[JulieScoobyDoo]

What is a tonsil stone

google it?