Pain and grinding

[anakk1n]

Hello!

In the last month I started having pain at the either c7 or t1 vertebrae. At first the pain did not seem so big but in a few days it became very bad to the point where the muscles around the vertebrae were affected. It was hurting very much when i had a backpack on my back or when i was doing any move with the arms that included the contraction of the neck's back muscles around the vertebrae.

In a short time the muscles started healing and so i thought that the problem was coming strictly from the muscles and the pain was just about to go completely.

That till i noticed that if i have a very slight pressure being put on the vertebrae (for example with my hand) and I rotate my head far to the right or far to the left I can feel some kind of grinding and a sharp pain, both being dependant on how big the pressure is.

This hasn't really improved much in the last week and I started to worry. At the beginning,  I was at an orthopedic doctor ( At that point I was not really feeling the grinding and the sharp pain because I could not really rotate my head to the extremities because of the muscles in pain and because i probably didn t noticed it either) . He told me that the muscles pain might come from the sudden temperature change and me not protecting my neck so well. Maybe I should go again?

I must say that when the pain was very big and I was re-positioning myself in the bed trying to find a comfortable position, I accidentally forgot about the problem and when I moved I did it in a way that got the muscles contracted and it started hurting very bad for a few seconds, followed by a weak numbness in the middlefinger of the left hand. Also, if I press on left side part of the vertebrae i don't feel pain, but it hurts in any other point (up , down,  right,  directly on it etc)

I did not have any heavy activity or trauma in the neck area in the last while with the exception of a muscle strain on the left part of the neck , not being near the affected area and clearly not hurting anymore.  I am 17 years old, and physically active.