Sore Throat on One Side

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Audrie....♥

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Hi all. I posted yesterday about my knee/leg which is doing better today, but only a little bit. Anyway, I might seem like a hypochondriac, but unfortunately today, something else cropped up. Over the past couple of months, my throat has been kinda raw (never sore, or red) but I think it's been from post nasal drip. It comes and goes, and hasn't really bothered me. This morning I woke up with it pretty sore on the right side, but kinda ignored it and then went to work. It didn't bother me during the morning so I forgot about it. Then after lunch it got really sore, and felt swollen. When I got home from work I checked it out, and the one side is slightly red, and I have a small white bump (only one) near the arch of my throat. I can't really see my tonsils, at least I don't think I can, so I don't think it's them. I don't have a fever and the other side seems pretty normal to me. I then remembered that I had really thin pretzel sticks for lunch, and may have scratched it. My question is, could it all be from a scratch, or is it likely something else. I don't want to go to the doctor right now about it, since it's only been a day. Does anyone have any suggestions, or ideas about what might be going on, or other stuff I should watch for with it?
 
Generally speaking, if you gargle with warm salt water and the sore throat goes away, then it was allergies/post nasal drip. If it doesn't, it's most likely an infection.
 
I've been doing that for a few hours now. I guess I'll have to see how it feels in the morning, though it doesn't seem to be doing too much at the moment...
 
I would also take a good antihistamine and see if that doesn't help dryup the post nasal drip that's causing the sore throat.
 
Thanks for the reply. It was really bad this morning when I got up, and feels a little bit better now. I still have a white spot on the one side of my throat. Not all the way in the back, pretty much right in front of the arch of my throat. It's red around it too. Would it also be possible that it could be caused by acid reflux? I noticed that when I've burped a few times today it's really burned on that one side. Not sure if the two are related, or if it just is that I scratched that one white spot.
 
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