sore throat and crohns

I was recently diagnosed with crohns disease this past summer and have been taking budensonide for a few months to treat it. i am off the budesonide for another 2 months now to see how i do without it. I woke up monday morning with a sore throat and then today i woke up with white sores on the back of my throat. So i went to urgent care and was tested for strep but that came back negative. I am being treated for it anyways with amoxocillin but am not sure if i should even start taking it or if these are just sores on the back of my throat from the crohns? how can you tell the difference between actually being sick and just having ulcers from the disease? I have no other symptoms except fatigue. Does anyone know what may be going on with me??

My tonsils have been removed years ago. no fever, no congestion. The urgent care doctor just assumed i have some sort of infection and gave me antibiotics. i get frequent sore throats but never have a positive strep test. i was just wondering if anyone else has had strep like symptoms in the throat without actually having strep. i am curious if the sores are caused by my crohns disease?

They could be canker sores or apthous ulcers I suppose, which are more common in people with autoimmune diseases. I still would not take the abx.

Whatever the outcome is please post the results. I too have some very small whitish spots on one side and coincentally have had a sore neck and throat now for about a month. I've taken amoxicilin since the doc thought my sore throat was bacteria related and the antibiotics didn't do a thing. Still have same issues. I too have Crohns and wonder if the issue I have is crohns related or something similar to what others have said regarding ulcers. I had strep test, negative. Still have tonsils but ENT doc really didn't think anything of the white spots when I brought them up. Maybe your issue is acid reflux?

Sorry I'm seeing this so late, but I agree with those who posted above. I would never, never take antibiotics unless I knew exactly what they were supposed to treat, and a test had confirmed that I was positive for that bacteria. I was "diagnosed" with strep for about 5 years, around the same time every spring.....funny thing, my strep test was never positive. In hindsight, I now know that those "infections" were actually me flaring. But at the time, I had not been diagnosed with IBD yet.

There is a rinse I get at the compounding pharmacy called the "MYLES rinse". It has 5 different things in it - an antifungal, and antibiotic, and antiviral, and a couple other things I'm forgetting. It's a thing you can swish and spit a few times a day, and it's supposed to shorten the duration of mouth/throat ulcers that have an "unknown cause" (of course, I know Crohn's is the "cause", but I mean they're not sure what exactly in the body triggers them.)

But honestly, the way to really get the mouth ulcers to stop is to get your IBD symptoms under control. I've been on Remicade for a little over a year now and I've only had one instance of having a couple ulcers for a week or two. Prior to starting the biologic, I probably had ulcers 5-6 times a year.

I hope you're feeling better by now, and I'd encourage you in the future to make sure an antibiotic is really necessary before you take it - they can be really hard on your guts and cause long-term damage, even if you seem to feel a little better in the short-term.