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Tonsil stones

online1862
I have a swollen tonsil that is not painful.  After reading different posts about tonsil stones, I took a q-tip and pushed it and these disgusting yellow chunks came out.  So, I guess I do have tonsil stones.  My question is how long after you express the stones does it normally take for the swelling of the tonsil to go down?
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naturalist9
my daughter tonsil is swollen,she can hardly eat & her nose has been running for about 4 months now
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It may be hard to say the swelling was from that one stone.  If it was, within days.  Many tonsils have multiple crypts and multiple stones...
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