Background (44-yr-old female):
* Sunday night (2/10): achy body, sore throat, mild fever.
* Monday: sore throat, achy, nearly fainted 1/2 dozen times. Fever 101. Gradually declined to normal by evening.
* Tuesday: severe sore throat, no other symptoms. Painful to swallow, eat, drink, talk. Strep culture negative at clinic.
* Wednesday: severe sore throat, no other symptoms. Pain as Tuesday. Wed. night, checked throat...multiple "canker sore" looking sores at back of throat. Now also same sores vaginally.
* Thursday more of same; doctors unavailable...made appt. for Friday afternoon.
NOTHING touches the pain: throat lozenges, ibuprofen, hot tea, chloraseptic spray, salt water gargle. All thease provide seconds of relief, short-lived.
WHAT is causing these sores, both on throat and vaginally, and this severe throat pain?! I'm in agony!!