I have had a sore throat now for a good week-week and a half 24/7. It is pretty red but no white patches. The pain started to spread to my left ear a couple days in. I have allergies, but they have never caused something like this. I went to urgent care for the same thing last month and the woman just quickly glanced and said she didn t see anything, but gave me antibiotics because she saw some redness in my right ear and I am prone to ear infections, even though it was the left one that hurt. The antibiotics helped with the ear pain, but I still had the sore throat at night. Now I have it all day long, but it gets really bad at night. Not sure what it could be.