I was actually able to see 2 different ENTs today, and am feeling - confused, I guess.
The first one was rather dismissively confident that everything was absolutely fine and normal, and tried to make me feel like I was being too worried.
The second one worried me. He mentioned that one tonsil was larger, that we had to keep an eye on it, check in 6 weeks, and mentioned the possibility/need for biopsy/CT scan. Well, that kinda freaked me out, because if there's the possibility, then why wait 6 WEEKS?!? But then he said that he didn't think it was cancer, that he's never been surprised by cancer, meaning that what he was seeing didn't look like cancer, and he really didn't think that I had anything to worry about.
but the mention of biopsy/CT scan freaked me out.

And when I asked him "why wait, what if it gets worse?" his response was "that's why you need to keep an eye on it every day."
WHAT?
So I need to everyday, look down my throat and wonder if the tonsil is getting bigger and bigger?

and he also said to gargle with salt water, because the enlarged tonsil was possibly due to a low grade infection.

Of course, I didn't think to ask until now - would it only affect one tonsil?!

The other doctor, the more dismissive one, just said that one was a little larger, but the it wasn't as big as it seemed, it was just that the placement of the tonsil made it look bigger.

But the other one spent a lot more time looking at more throat, so I just don't know what to think.