Oral STD vs. tonsillitis

[Sadandregretful]

Dear Dr.,

A few hours after my first experience of oral sex on a man, quick but unprotected, 10 days ago, with no ejaculation in my mouth but possible pre-ejaculatory fluid, I started having a sore throat and swollen lymph glands. I know the other man to be gay, exceedingly promiscuous but normally very concerned with questions of hygiene.

I tested for oral STDs this last Monday. The results will come out next Monday.

As the pain in my throat gradually increased to the point where I had great difficulty swallowing and drinking, I visited a throat specialist today. In fact, I already felt much better this morning, but went on with the consultation, to make sure I was alright. He diagnosed a probable tonsillitis, in regression, and, to make sure, did a throat swab, whose result also will come out next Monday.

I have the following questions/concerns:

1) Are the symptoms of oral STDs (like gonorrhea) similar to those of tonsillitis?
2) Or, adversively, is gonorrhea a possible cause of tonsillitis?
3) Does the fact that the throat specialist diagnosed tonsillitis (which, in my 44 years of life, I never had before)  kind of pre-confirms that I have oral gonorrhea?
4) How likely is it that the whole thing is a coincidence and I just have tonsillitis, for the first time in my life, and no oral STD?

Please, comments to those questions would be most welcome.

[auntiejessi]

Most oral STD infections are asymptomatic, so its doubtful this is an STD.  STDs wouldn't cause symptoms that fast, either.

Your lab results will help better answer these questions, though the waiting stinks.

AJ