Hi, one night I went in my hot tub that wasn't properly working but didn't realize it at the time, so it wasn't as sanitary as it should have been. I have no idea if this is the reason for my symptoms, but my symptoms started the next morning after that. My symtoms have lasted for about two weeks now.

The morning after the hot tub, I woke with a sore throat and had that all day. Then I went to bed the next night and woke the next morning with an even more severe sore throat and my eyes crusted shut due to mucusy discharge. I did take some natural health things and had quite a lot of green/yellow stuff come out through coughing and blowing my nose. This lasted for about a week: eyes crusted shut in the morning, yellow/green drainage, severe sore throat, and cough that keeps getting more intense. I did also have some mild body chills as well during this time and felt fatigued.

The second week it still persisted, but the green/yellow discharge has lessened, the mucusy eyes have stopped, and the chills have stopped. The cough however has gotten worse, it is a dry cough that makes me cough so hard sometimes that I can feel pain in my back where my lungs would be.

My sore throat has been constant thru all of this and has become so bad that I need to take pain medication before bed at night to be able to sleep. It seems to be worse too if I breathe with my mouth open for sometime.

The newest development is that I have discovered red bumps on my uvula, and my right ear is beginning to hurt as well. What is this???

I'm not sure it's strep because I have a cough with it. It does seem like some infection, but then why has the green/yellow discharge stopped?? I'm also concerned because in my reading it seems like some of my symptoms are consistent with a herpes outbreak, which I've never had before.

I would love to know what this is, but mostly I would love for a doctor to tell me that it doesn't sound like herpes because that is very scary for me. THANK YOU