I ve been experiencing pain in the throat and ear for at least 2 months. It mainly stays on one side but occasional will have attack like symptoms where feels like whole throat is blocked. I ve taken plenty of ibuprophen and been on antibiotics and predisone, but symtoms still occur. I had ct scan which show inflammation which lead to predisone but now symptoms occurring while on predisone. Now from taking this steroid I feel like im going to explode elsewhere, nausea heartburn feel like nothing I swallow goes all the way down and just abdominal pain/cramps. 2 months of this is long time. I ve been in regurlar contact with dr, but I don t seem to be getting better just worse