 [ Symptoms ] i have a white spot about the size of a large grain of rice in the back of my throat on my tonsil of the left side its a small white spot but it is very easy to see upon emamination i have just gotten over a cold that did start with a very sore throat but that was about a a week ago now there is only a spot on one side of my throat i am worried its some kind of infection i can touch the area with my tonge and it is much warmer on that side of my throat than the other side it is mildly irrated [ Disease ] im not a doctor so dont take my word as gold but i get these little white spots on my tonsils too they irritate me like crazy one evening i had enough so i took a flash light and went into the bathroom and took my fingernail and poked at it and it popped out of the tonsil and it stopped bothering me i still get them a lot but i just go in there and get it out i think its like the first answer on here like a calcification