@animallover25 Thanks for all the info! I appreciate it. I really do need to find a good ENT. I don't really trust the one who prescribed the mupirocin so haphazardly. Also, when I went to him because of a salivary gland infection (I had no idea that's what it was but it was SO painful!), he did treat that with antibiotics and it went away, but he also said there was no use in doing any tests because there's no cure. Well, yeah, but when I thought about that later, I thought, there's got to be some treatments that would at least make me feel a little better. He offered absolutely nothing but drinking fluids and applying heat.