I was diagnosed with strep throat at an urgent care 2 days ago and almost all the symptoms adds up (fever, red throat, white pus, very difficult swallowing pain). However the rapid lab test that they gave me came back negative. The doctor told me that the test could be wrong and prescribed me with 10 days of amoxicillin.
The only symptom that doesn't seems to align with strep is a cough that I've been having. At the time of visiting the urgent care, it was minor enough to be dismissed but today it got so bad that I couldn't sleep.
Should I be worried about having something else that isn't strep throat? It hurts a lot and it gotten a bit better now, so maybe the antibiotics is working?
What's the cough about?
Im 31 male