No serious pain when swollowing, but since about April I have had little like, red vein looking things (1 or 2 purple) in my throat as well as the skin around my tonsils. I do have allergies and drainage at night. Also found was quite sick at the beginning of the year, and later found that my issues were from an undiagnosed case of mono. Not knowing I had mono, I continued to drink alcohol at the time. I'm a normally healthy 28 year old female, before all this only got sick maybe twice a year