talloulou

A few years ago I had a sore throat that felt like my entire throat was literally on fire. I went to the drs. and being the nazis that they are they refused to give me antibiotics till a throat culture was done. My dr. is a real "no antibiotics for you" type. Big believer in only using the pills as a last resort. Anyway I left pissed and feeling like I was dying. Three days later I felt all better. That's when the jacka$$ called informing me the throat culture showed I had strep. I told the ****tard, "Well now I'm all better." He said then, "You don't need the antibiotics....good for you."

So I'd say if you feel fine, really fine, don't take the antibiotics. However if every few days or so you start feeling like you have a sore throat and it's sort of a chronic thing that comes and goes then you probably do need some medication and you should probably have your particular strain of strep tested to see which antibiotics kill it best in the lab. But if you feel better and no sore throat recurs in the near future I wouldn't worry no more about it. Could be you really are a carrier who always carries strep bacteria and it wasn't the strep bacteria making you sick, but instead some other virus. In which case there's really no need to take pills for the asymptomatic strep.