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Evie, I'm sure you've heard of gargling with warm salt water? My mom taught me this and it always helps, though you get tired of the salty taste. The warmer you can stand it, the better, it seems.

You say it's chronic; have you had it checked by a doctor to see if it is either recurrent tonsillitis or strep throat? Do you regularly get prescribed antibiotics for infection, or does your sore throat generally go away on its own?

Here's a forum where people have written in about their own home remedies (the one about warm lemonade sounds like it would be a winner):

http://www.myhomeremedies.com/topic.cgi?topicid=187

and here is a page with some natural and herbal remedies:

http://www.natural-homeremedies.com/homeremedies_sorethroat.htm

In case you are interested, here's a very good discussion of tonsilliltis in adults by a doctor from the Mayo Clinic:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-edge-newspaper-2008/jan-28.html

And here's a Brigham and Women's research study that discusses tonsil removal in adults. It followed 83 adults who had chronic tonsillitis for 3 years,and compared treatment with antibiotics to having the tonsils removed:

http://www.brighamandwomens.org/publicaffairs/Newsreleases/chronictonsilitis.aspx

What have you tried in the past to treat your sore throat? Are you not getting much relief?