I had gone to an ENT who actually told me that I was wrong and that it wasn't strep throat. That I couldn't possibly know my own diagnosis. I told him that when I was younger I used to get strep a lot, and that I'm pretty sure it's strep. (I had the nasty white stuff in the back of my throat and all). He did a throat culture and sure enough it came back as strep throat. He tried to give me antibiotics once again to treat it, but by that time, I gave up on antibiotics because I didn't feel they were helping, especially with it coming back so frequently. Once I gave up on the antibiotics, somehow I stopped getting the strep throat. I haven't had it since then which is about 2 years now. I do once in a while have a slight soreness in my throat but nothing close to strep. However, I'm sure that wasn't the correct way to take care of that problem.