AIBU to think this could be shingles?

[My200lbLife]

Last week I had a wierd headache at the top of my spine. Asked parents if there are glands there and yes there are. It went away after a few days and I assumed it was a one off. It was a wierd stiff neck sitch.

Yesterday I woke up unable to move because my shoulder and neck are so painful. As the day has gone on I can’t speak swallow or cough. Throat is sore and gland inflamed at front of neck. Slight temperature. Feel sick.

I went to the doctor today and asked me about shingles and then decided it’s a pulled shoulder muscle. He’s asked me to go back if I get a rash.

I can’t believe a pulled muscle can be this painful or that it would make me feel sick and headachey. I feel like I did when i had glandular fever. I can’t stand up or sit down without huge pain.

Should I go back to docs?

If this is your second week in pain, I'd go back to the docs. Shingles is usually identifiable by a rash first I believe

My shingles pain was like nerve/ burning pain rather than muscular pain and I had a rash following the nerve where the pain was.

Shingles is a rash in a sort of line, along a nerve.
What you are describing does not sound like a pulled muscle, sounds more like a virus with a potential throat infection.
I’d take painkillers, drink fluids and rest, but if you’re not better on `Friday see a different doctor.

Thankyou.

Have any of you ever pulled a muscle? Is it normally this painful? I didn’t injure myself in the slightest.

I am also on methotrexate which I gather can make some illnesses far worse

It was glandular fever in the end

Thought it would be helpful to update in case anybody is in the same position

Oh mind yourself as that is a sore thing and you need lots and lots of rest.