I totally agree AB's are over used and I'm very stubborn with going to the dr but I guess sometimes they are needed or we can end up very sick, good to hear your feeling better though.

Don't know if you can take aspirin but gargling some while at the hospital helped with the pain as I couldn't swallow. I swear by a warm drink with lemon and good active manuka honey 99% of the time though and gargling warm salty water.