To begin, im 20 years old and live a relatively healthy lifestyle. I exercise regularly, but as it’s been the summer holidays these last few months I’ve probably drunk and socially smoked roughly once a week since the beginning of June. It’s usually not too bad but I’ve recently got concerned about some symptoms I’ve Ben having... Dr google doesn’t help either!

essentially since just before the end of this university term, I’ve had a bad, almost poo like taste in the back of my throat. This isn’t always, but on and off and whenever I clear my throat. 

My throat has been red quite a lot but not often in pain and the last month or so I’ve noticed my right tonsil is slightly larger than the left. 

Every now and then I also feel as though there’s a lump in my throat or a pressure in my upper chest, it can make me feel the need to swallow more regularly. 

Im starting to think a trip to the doctors might be worth it, but I’ve had a lot of other medical things going on this summer including a sigmoidoscopy for a stomach problem I’ve had for years and a diagnosis with 4th cranial nerve palsy in my eyes!

It makes me wonder whether I am just being paranoid or whether I do have some kind of sixth sense when something is wrong... I’m just unsure on what to do and whether I’m overreacting.