severe neck pain flu like symptoms

[Jessica3210]

First I woke up with a sore throat and severe neck pain on both sides, then throughout the day I developed flu like symptoms (fever, chills, joint and muscle pain with continueing pain in my neck.) Does anybody have any idea? I would say flu but I never experienced a neck pain like this. Thanks.

[Tonyd44]

One evening I started having a combination of sore neck and sore throat/lymph nodes. I went to bed early and throughout the night symptoms became worse. I awoke to a throbbing headache and feverish symptoms; cold sweats, dizziness, ect. I took vitamins and fluids and nyquil and slept all day and night and became increasingly better throughout the next day. Scary stuff though virus's are no joke

[tina2012]

hey im sixteen.I have a horrible cough.swallowing hurts so bad and my neck is extremely stiff..my mom doesn't thing its connected.I've  had the flu shot.help.please.theraflu,dayquil,robutussin,goodys they don't help me

[aish27]

I had a strange fever for 10 days which refused to go away accompanied by little swellings in the neck, i got tested for typhoid, malaria, dengue etc , Had  a blood test , haematogram, typhoid test etc done , but  noything  came out. I then changed my doc and some how the fever vanished with new medicines. howeever now its been 7 days of 2-3 swellings in my neck which irritate me as i cannot turn my head, there is a lot of pain at times in my head, and i can feel the pulse beating in all these 3 nodes, its irritating and painful as no one has a cure , pls some one help me

[roulomickey]

I started with a slight pinch in my neck when I tried to turn my head to the left.  I had slept funny on the couch, without a pillow - not very smart.  Then it was spring and I was hitting a bunch of golf balls as hard as I could - This was Thursday.  Friday I was experiencing a lot of pain in the left side of my neck.  I mostly had to lay down, having chills, being so exhausted from waking up every 1/2 hour in excruciating pain.  I ended up like literally not being able to turn my neck left but about 1/2 an inch.  It was the most painful sick feeling I had ever felt.  I called the chiropractor and begged for an adjustment.  When I got in the room I told him he had better shut the door because when he tried to adjust my neck I'd end up screaming and I'd have no control over it!  He did'nt shut the door and I screamed like hell.  People in the waiting room were seriously freaked.  I came in the next day and it was worse, he was not even able to really adjust my neck it was so bad, now I was also starting to feel like I had this lump or abcess growing in my throat, becuase I had had one once before and could remember the feeling.  I was thinking that perhaps I should wait if that was the case a chiropractic adjustment might not be the best thing...  I ended up goin in anyway and he was not able to adjust the neck really except for one time that really never moved much.  It hurt so bad I could'nt relax enough for the spine to move.  LIFE WAS HELL - I've never felt so sick, but not really flu like, no sinus problems, upset stomach, hard chills, etc.  The next day the lump in my throat was gone and I really felt about 90% better - I belive even though it hurt like @#$@ the adjustment really, really helped.  I went in on the 3rd day and suggested he try the full neck adjustment and still the left side would not really crack - and it hurt like **** - almost makes me dizzy for a couple of seconds.  He suggested a day off so now its the fourth day and I still feel a little pinch when I look to the left behind me but otherwise last night I slept the entire night through and I worked all day with no problem.  I'm not quite ready to play golf damn it!  Good luck and hope this helps you.

[Nonsanity]

On Friday morning, my 4 year old daughter passed out without warning. She had fully recovered within 10-20 seconds, and seemed perfectly fine, but we took her to the emergency room for good measure. They tested for causes that would require immediate medical treatment and found nothing. The following Thursday she came down with a mild cold.

Over the weekend, my wife started having symptoms of headache, neck ache, nausea, dizziness, and blurred vision. On Monday night she passed out, also recovering within 10-20 seconds. Spent all night at the emergency room testing for causes that would require immediate medical treatment, and again found nothing.

Now I had had a week of head and neck pain followed be the onset of cold symptoms later in the day the Friday my daughter passed out. It is the following Friday and I'm feeling considerably better, through with still some lingering stiffness in the neck and some sniffles.

It looks like - and at least one doctor made the same suggestion - that all three of us are suffering from a viral cold that starts out with a week of head and neck pain that trails off into a week more typical cold symptoms. If my wife's starts running like crazy on Sunday, we can call this hypothesis valid. (At least enough to stop worrying about other things... Schwarzenegger: "It's NOT a tumor!")

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[melanie369]

I live in Ohio. I am a female age 50. I too have had this severe pain that started in the neck. I began to have trouble swallowing with what felt like a sore throat with no fever. On Wednesday I went to the hospital and they attributed it to a recent exercise program I had started even though I had stopped it a week earlier. They prescribed percocet and muscle relaxers and ibuprofen. This didn't even ease the pain, By Friday I could not move without excruciating pain going up my head. I went to the doctor and he said the same, must be your recent exercise. He said take more of the percocet, gave me an anti-inflamitory shot and sent me for X-rays. The x-rays showed nothing. I spent a miserable Friday day and night, by Saturday I started to feel a little less sore compared to Friday. It is Sunday and I still get what I call "Zingers" when I turn my head but nothing like the Friday pain. I start physical therapy Monday.  I have felt all along that this was flu related and I am grateful to have found this sight with others complaining of this same horrible pain. I am hoping I have seen the worst of this. Good luck to all of you! Let me know if any of you live in Ohio.