<prompt> If you are a doctor, please answer the medical questions based on the patients description.Hi. Okay so I had strep throat back at the end of December and I got amoxicillin and I forgot to take like the last 2 days of it so it had come back in the beginning of January and I never went to the doctors the second time because we had no insurance. Then it came back AGAIN mid January and I went to med express and they diagnosed it as tonsillitis and gave me some pills steroids for swelling. Well guess what its back AGAIN!!! Ive had it another time between then too. Im miserable and it hurts to swallow and speak 247. Im weak and my ear hurts. I have no appetite and my tonsils look awful. Ive been taking cough drops, drinking tea, taking aspirin, resting, etc but nothing seems to work. And it keeps returning. Its a bacterial infection at this point. Am I going to have to get my tonsils out? Id rather not. What do I do? Is there anything else I CAN do??  <response>: Hello, First I want to know have you done an antibiotic-gram which shows which antibiotic is best to use. And then you should use the antibiotic for 10-14 days. After that re-control with another throat culture. About getting your tonsils out I will say that this is a solution when you have more than 6 episodes of tonsillitis a year. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. 