Sore neck after tonsilitus

[MrPeters]

As per the title. The gf has had tonsilitus, which has cleared up fine - no throat pain or trpible swallowing etc...

But one side of her neck is very sore to the point moving her head when driving etc is causing pain. Ibuprofen sorts it out for a couple of hours.

Any ideas?

[MrPeters]

No wasnt on antibiotics. She gets it regularly (couple of times a year) and consistently clears up quicker without. The tonsilitus itself was gone within 3 days.

Obv docs arent open till tues now, so just wondering if its worth a trip to the walk in centre tomorrow or not if its not serious.

[E21_Ross]

it could also be totally unrelated. from what you've said she's not been experiencing any headaches, nausea, dizziness etc; better get back to the GP anyway just in case.
is she running a fever?

[MrPeters]

Nope not experiencing anything unpleasent apart from the pain.

[E21_Ross]

MrPeters said:

Nope not experiencing anything unpleasent apart from the pain.

When did her symptoms of tonsillitis go and when did the neck pain come about? How long has the neck pain been present? Is there any way it could be a muscle strain? Try having her sit on a chair or stool and you try and rotate her neck slowly. Hole her head and take the whole weight of it to try to relax her neck muscles. See if you can passively rotate it further without pain than when she rotates her head herself.

Not sure if you'd be comfortable doing that or the following...

Have her seated as before, rotate her neck for her a little then get her to try to rotate her neck back the other way against resistance to see if that causes pain. Do the same for bending head forwards and backwards, and ear to shoulder. If that causes pain it could be muscular but there are lots of other things harder to explain over the Internet!

How long has she been in pain? Could she have just slept awkwardly?