Ok So Ive been in extreme pain for 5 days now, tensness in the back and sides of my neck, my jaw, my ears, and around my eyes. I looked in the back of my throat and I can see a VERY little bit of whitish looking substance on my tonsils, So I ran to the doctor, they did the rapid strep test, and it came back negetive, but would chewing a mint 2 seconds before taking the test affect anything? well so if its not strep what could it be.PLZ HELP