Throat Problems

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It happened last month. It was a Friday on the 25th and I was doing some work in the office. I felt some discomfort at the back of my throat and I was getting a foul taste. I brush my teeth every morning, after every meal (almost) and before bed and I gargle with Listerine every morning. So where did that foul taste come from? I coughed and coughed due to the discomfort. Suddenly I felt something in my mouth after a very hard cough. I quickly put a piece of paper on my desk and spat the 'objects' out. It had a foul smell... the rotting smell... the kind that you get at drains and sewages.

This is what came out. I took this with my N95. I didn't think of measuring at that point but the large ones were about twice the size of a boiled barley grain while the smaller ones were the size of a boiled barley grain.

Shortly after that, I fell ill and since I was at the doctor's I showed him a picture of my 'foreign objects' and told him what happened. He told me that it was normal (yeah, right... and I am a monkey's uncle) and that it happens when we get throat infections and this are hardened discharge and that it will go away. I didn't believe him and neither did I like his explanation. But since he's just a GP, I left it at that.

Somehow, after that incident the foul taste did not go away. Every time I swallowed my saliva, I'd get that taste but I didn't know why. And I still felt some discomfort at the back of my throat but I couldn't see anything in my throat though I could feel it.

Then this morning when I looked into the mirror and checked my throat, I saw it. I used a teaspoon to try and dislodge it but I gagged and it didn't move. So, I went to the doctor again and showed him my throat. Again he said, it was normal and that it would go away and that it was not cancerous or anything. He just said that my throat was rather inflamed and swollen so he gave me some medication for it. He assured me that it would go away on its own but I didn't believe him.

I went back and took another look at it. This time, I noticed a second object sticking out of my tonsils. You can see it in the picture above. The one on the left which is more visible was the initial 'sighting'.

Here's another picture of it with a clearer view of the object. Oh, by the way... I took these pictures myself with my N95.

I was really uncomfortable and I was not going to leave it just like that so it was the teaspoon again... I took the teaspoon and gently nudged my tonsil just next to the object... the first one. Sure I gagged... but the object came out. Then I gently pushed the other object to see what happened. It moved. It moved towards the opening of the earlier object an dit wa sthen that I saw there was more that one object. I was tearing by this time but I did not give up an dpushed some more. They came out... all of them.

Here's how the objects look like again but this time with measurements. Rather large don't you think? I have no idea what it is but it seems to be like hardened fats and/or carbohydrate and they smell really, really rotten.

My throat's clear now and the foul taste has gone and so has the discomfort. Here's a picture of my throat. Notice the holes on my tonsils? I have pictures and I plan to see an ENT specialist soon and show these to the specialist.