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Originally Posted by shermanator
IMO (and I'm no doctor), it sounds like you have mono. I've had strep throat many times, and the crappiness generally doesn't last 6 days.
I've had mono before too and it was initially misdiagnosed as strep throat. When I stopped taking the antibiotics the symptoms came back.
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As a pharmacist, it is quite frustrating to see the amount of prescriptions for antibiotics given for "strep throat" with no swab. This does two things:
-Increases antibiotic resistance in other bacteria due to overuse
-reinforce the dangerous misconception that antibiotics are appropriate whenever symptoms get bad.
Antibiotics for respiratory infections are often inappropriate. For example, how many people on this forum were prescribed antibiotics for bronchitis? Zero percent of acute bronchitis cases are bacterial. Zero. Yet in my health region alone, 70 percent of patients diagnosed with acute bronchitis were prescribed antibiotics