I have had flu like symptoms, shoulder and neck pain, and a sore throat and headache for 6 days now. I went to see the doctor at the start with the shoulder pain and they said it was muscular. I still have other symptoms. He gave me Co-codomol. Have you any suggestions?

Your symptoms do suggest that you have a viral infection and this can give rise to muscle aches or pains.

Co-codamol can help with the pain but will not help in resolving the underlying viral infection.

If this is still troubling you when you get this email, you might like to try Echinacea drops which has been shown to shorten the duration of cold and flu infections.

You should be able to find this in most high street healthfood stores or pharmacies.