Back in May my left cheek hurt for a few minutes and then swelled up, and stayed swollen for days. I was told by an urgent care doc it was probably a virus, and I did get a bad sore throat & tonsil which were very swollen and red. Also had fatigue, muscle aches, slight fever of 99.0 to 99.6 and earaches. After a month I was still sick, so my regular GP gave me a strep test, blood work and UA, all came back fine.
Things didn't fully resolve until about 6 weeks later when I had antibiotics (amoxicillin) for something else. However, I had been told my cheek wasn't bacterial, because I'd been on antibiotics just 2 days prior to the cheek swelling.
So a couple of weeks ago I finished a round of doxycycline for impetigo when the same cheek swelled up again. After a week I got the same symptoms: sore throat, swollen tonsil, earaches, etc. Just no fever this time, otherwise it's the same.
What could this be? It seems so odd that this would happen after taking antibiotics twice. Is that just coincidence? Has this happened to anyone else?