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A 27-year-old female asked:

I have viral cold. i have a pain left side base of head/neck that hurts in certain positions. does this sound like pulled muscle?

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Neck pain: It sounds like you have swollen lymph.nodes secondary to your viral infection

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I was pressing under my jaw to feel for lymph nodes (I think I was actually touching some muscle tissue that I thought was a big lymph node). Since that day, whenever I turn my neck or press on it, it makes a clicking sound. No pain. What can it be?

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I was stretching with my arms above my head and I heard a pop, and there was instant pain on the left side of my neck. Is it a pulled muscle or something else?

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