Dropping off parents insurance soon, need to know what to ask doctors specifically.
I have something wrong which started in my throat. This got worse and my tonsils swelled up. If I cough, the big red tonsil would flop up on my tongue and make me gag and cough more and more and more and... A few days into the swelling tonsils I got a bad fever which kept me from eating and sleeping. I couldn't get comfortable, because I was either shivering with the blanket off or sweating with the blanket on. However, the fever went away after about 3 days when one night I fell asleep for about 2 hours (a long rarity during the current cycle), but my shirt and shorts were soaked in sweat and needed to be changed. I had heard of sweating out a fever and thought maybe that was what happened. The next day I went to the doctor, and he gave me steroids to shrink the tonsils and an IV to replenish lost fluids. They checked blood and throat culture and said no to mono, strep or bacterial infection. I came home feeling good and noticed if I chewed my food a few extra times, the pain in my throat wasn't so bad. However, the same night I experienced the annoying night sweats again and once again couldn't get to sleep. I am hoping this is not something serious, but if it is, I need to find it out as soon as possible because I graduated college in May and haven't been able to find any sort of leads on a job and I drop off my parents' health insurance in September. Please help me.