The Mysterious Sore Throat.

Every day, around noon, I dutifully swallow two small pills – Spironolactone – that are supposed to help decrease or eliminate my PCOS symptoms. I’ve been taking these pills for about 3 months, give or take a few days, and things have been going nicely.

For the past week, however, I’ve had the weirdest side effect (or coincidence?).

About 5 hours after I take the pills, I have an unbelievably sore throat. Painful to swallow, white patches, swollen-throat-feeling and all the rest of it. Nothing makes the pain stop – not cold water or lozenges.

But when I wake up the next morning? GONE. All better.

I didn’t immediately make the connection between the sore throat and the meds. I assumed it was allergies or the cold that the kids and Coffee have been incubating for the past while. .. except, why would it be gone in the morning and not come back until a few hours after I took the meds?

Then I realized that I was having incredibly sore and tender breasts at around the same time of day – another side effect of the drugs – and that symptom lasted all evening, too.

Dammit.

The internet told me to call my doctor if I had a persistent sore throat, so I did and was put through to a nurse practitioner. She had no clue what to do and will thus leave a message for my doctor to call me.

It takes about 6 months before the meds have any effect on the PCOS symptoms – and it’ll really suck if I have to discontinue these meds and try something else. But I’ll pretty much do anything to get rid of the sore throat because, hello, OW. And every night! That’s not fair!