Mysterious Sore Throat

Ok... get your Inspector Gadget tools out, this ailment has me extremely stumped. For the past ~2 weeks I have had a MILD sore throat. Its on/off throughout the day and I have chatted with my doctor via email and seen a PA at our local walkin clinic. Here is everything I know so far. 1. I have had strep 2-3 times in the past 12 months. However, both a rapid strep and culture strep have come back negative for this case. The PA put me on antibiotics as a 'just in case' measure Thursday, 9/12. As of this post I haven't noticed them helping much. 2. Test for mono at the walkin was negative. (I had mono previously in 2011). 3. I have GERD, but my diet has not changed. I doubled my meds for it about a week ago and no change situation. 4. Allergies are unknown. I did a allergy panel with a specialist a ~year ago and the only one that tested barely positive was cat dander. I don't own a cat nor am near any. 5. I literally have no other symptoms. My temp was 98.4 at the walkin visit. My nose is not congested or runny. No chills/sneezing/coughing. No swelling in neck that I can notice. An occasional headache. I have noticed increase fatigue (I take 1-2 hour naps after work each day). 6. I seem to notice the irritation is worst in the morning, after my naps, when I am talking a lot. Note it doesn't "hurt", it is merely the feeling of dry/yuckiness. It doesn't hurt to swallow, sneeze, cough, etc. My guesses are change of season (its getting cooler and dryer up here in Vermont). Though I don't ever recall having this problem in past years. Could indeed be GERD related, though no idea why it would change all of the sudden. And lastly a newly developed allergy I am not aware of. I will be doing my doc again in person this week, hopefully we can figure it out but I thought I would ask if anyone else has had similar problems in the past.

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