If you have had that feeling you know what it is like. I went to urgent care and said exactly that ....swallowing razor blades.
Of course, if you actually swallowed razor blades I am sure that would be much worse but what I experienced was horrendous. Tesla pearls (Tessalon perles) did help with nasty cough
I had a strep infection many years ago that laid me low in a matter of hours.
Had a full day planned with college classes in the morning and an important military function for my husband in the PM.
During the course of an exam at 8AM got so sick I had to go home and fall on the bed face down because I could not swallow at all and nose was running a stream.
I was absolutely out of it until the kids got home from school.
Even then I couldn’t come to enough to call my husband and my throat was so swollen I couldn’t talk anyway.
I had a strep infection many years ago that laid me low in a matter of hours.
Had a full day planned with college classes in the morning and an important military function for my husband in the PM.
During the course of an exam at 8AM got so sick I had to go home and fall on the bed face down because I could not swallow at all and nose was running a stream.
I was absolutely out of it until the kids got home from school.
Even then I couldn’t come to enough to call my husband and my throat was so swollen I couldn’t talk anyway.
I’ve had some extremely bad sore throats before...not sure if what any of them were could be described as that. Makes it so difficult to swallow - dreaded even swallowing a bit of saliva.
But I’ll take it over severe, life threatening respiratory issues and high fever the original strains of this virus were causing...assuming this strain isn’t also offering that in addition to the razor blades.