Hello Dr, My name is Kirk. I am a 27 year old male. I am five foot six inches tall and weigh approximately 135 lbs. am in generally excellent health, but not right now. I do not take any medications or supplements regularly, I eat a fairly healthy diet and I do not smoke or use drugs. I drink socially about 3 times a month. I took ill 5 days ago on tuesday evening. Prior to me feeling actually ill, my tonsils were causing me a great deal of pain, it actually woke me up in the middle of the night about 2-3 nights before I felt very ill. Approximately 1 week prior to the night where my tonsil pain woke me up, I had the common cold that was going around and I was not severely effected. On tuesday I went to see a massage therapist at 2 pm and felt fairly good, no complaints. By tuesday at 5 pm had arrived at my work at a gym and was incredibly fatigued and shivering . In my few moments downtime I found myself literally hugging the space heater. From 5-8 I had to work and I am surprised I made it through. When I got home, I checked my temperature and it was 103 degrees F. I had fatigue, lethargy, sore throat tonsillar , general aches and pains in knees and wrists. I believed I had the Flu which is going around the country right now. I rested, mostly lying down and napping for 2 days expecting the flu to pass. I felt extremely weak. I noticed some slight spotting on my tonsils but was too ill to bother to get out the flashlight to investigate further. Once I took the effort to get out a flashlight and investigate my throat I became incredibly certain I had strep throat . I investigated the known symptoms of strep throat and cross referenced with images of strep throat infection online. I met every single criteria for strep throat. I am typically fairly in tune with my body and I could tell this was not a normal illness. This was thursday and my temperature had hit a momentary high of 104.3 degrees F. I do not have health insurance and I live alone with no relatives to assist me. I tried to find places where I could quickly get a strep rapid test and/or throat culture test performed. Nothing was available to me except for a free clinic which has an average wait time of 6 hours. I did not think I could last 6 hours in a clinic. I decided to begin the use of some amoxicillin which I had in my medical kit. I purchased it in mexico and it was never opened and stored in what I would consider highly optimal conditions. I always finish my course of antibiotics and know how dangerous stopping because you feel better can be. The amoxicillin was approximately 1.25 years past its best by date but I called poison control and performed further research and determined that amoxicillin does not become toxic after its expiration date, and only its potency or efficacy can be reduced. I started at approximately noon on thursday taking 500 mg amoxicillin 3 times daily exactly every 8 hours. within 16-24 hours my 104 degree fever had gone down to approximately 100-101. I did not eat at all on wednesday, thusday, and only ate again friday evening. my temperature has now stabilized at around 100 most of the time. I am suffering from diarrhea, which was probably made worse by not eating and only ingesting water. The diarrhea had an oily appearance and contained bubbles, I took the oily nature to possibly be stomach bile and the bubbles to potentially indicated the violence of the intestinal activity.irritation. The diarrhea started before the use of the antibiotics. I continue to rest and push fluids and monitor my temperature. overall it seems improved but I am still feeling very poorly. As I write this right now my temperature is 100.8. This morning has seen a new symptom of some chest tightness, nothing I would describe as painful but enough to raise an eyebrow. I do not know what this could be. additionally there have been 2 times where my tonsil/ back of throat bled. Both times I had almost vomited and I believe the increased pressure from the heaving contraction burst a blood vessel or something of that nature. bleeding lasted approximately 40 seconds each time with maybe a table spoon or so of fresh bright red blood being lost before the bleed clotted. This has only happened when nearly vomiting. I am sorry this is long, but I thought a thorough initial writing would be more helpful to you. Can you advise me?