this all started about 3-4 months ago when after a night of heavy drinking an smoking and my throat felt like it was so dry that it was on fire ( my left one was normal ). over the next month or month and a half it grew slightly larger (to the size of a grape almost) with a white chalkey substance in it and then all the sudden the tonsil shrunk back down to almost normal size again without any medication (possibly over a few nights spand at most if i remember correctly). afterwards, a couple weeks later (2 months ago about) i felt my right jugular
lymph node was swollen. I then went to the doctor a month ago and he prescribed a bunch of medication which did not work. After another hard night of drinking and smoking (4 days ago and yeah im taking this as a sign to stop doing what im doing) my right jugular
lymph node is huge (about a the size of a dime) and my left submandilar, the one under your chin if i got it right, is huge as well and new i believe. the jugular node is movable and hard feeling and the submandilar, again if its right, feels very squishy. after my neck nodes swelled up 4 days ago my throat has been aching badly and ive been having this chill feeling in it ( when i say aching i don't man soar throat, i mean like an achin muscle almost ) now i cant imagine that my social habits don't have anything to do with this but what is going on, my CT scan showed swollen
lymph nodes, i had a camera down my throat twice, which saw nothing except an agitated voice box (only the first camera show it agitated) but ive never heard of anything ( including my resident brother) that would make my tonsil swell as much as it did and make my nodes swell as much as they are without relieve from it for such an extended time, i mean my doctor even gave me anti inflammatory steroid that did nothing. Is all this most likely 100 PCT of my social habits or is it my social habits irritating something else that needs to be taken care of also?
