Tonsilitis. What a bastard, prick, pain in the arse thing this is.
Had an on going battle with it for about 4 years. My sister also. (We cross infected each other). To go to bed with a "normal throat" and wake up hardly able to talk all because I left the fan on in my room was normal. Always being tired/rundown was just part of life. I could never "catch up on sleep".
After being thrown into hospital twice I went and saw a specialist with my sister tagging along. Took one look at us and said they're coming straight out. The normal GP's were sure that removing them would be a bad thing. (How can it be when you're always sick FFS and taking upto 10 penicillin tablets a day). Booked us in and within 4 weeks we were being operated on. He did warn me not to turn up with a "hot" throat. One week before the op I was having IV antibiotics to try and get rid of it long enough to be operated on.
OP day.... Turns out I was inflamed as hell. Doc made a decision to operate anyway... A few days later we were both back in hospital. The first night the nurse gave us a baked dinner to eat. FFS... I have stiches in my fkn throat, couldn't drink so much as a mouthful of water and you want us to munch on a steak?
Post op check up. Turns out I was about 6 weeks out from blood poisioning. Fantastic. Thumbs up to my "trusty doctors"
That was about 4 years ago. Since getting having them out i've put on close to 30 KG and haven't had so much as a cold or a flu. THE BEST THING IVE DONE! Sister has also had no "downsides" from getting them out either.
GP's excuse for not getting them taken out... "due to your age I knew how painful it would have been".... Well he got that right! haha. Apparantly the nerve's in the tonsils "change" around the age of 21 which makes it MUCH MORE painful than having them out as a kid. I think i'd rather have all 4 wisdom teeth out 5 times over than go through that again... No joke!
If they're giving you grief, go and get them out. I wish I did it 8 years ago when this crap showed up!
* appologies for the length of the post.