Strange aching, sore area deep in left front neck

wow.. this post is 3 years old but i've been having similar problems. I strange pain on outside of throat.. in very specific location. Like a pinpoint. But what got me about this post was smell of tobacco and cat litter. What the hell could that be from?

Has anyone tried having a Lymphatic Massage????? I'm a massage therapist and I'm going to try Lymphatic Drainage therapy because I have the same symptoms as many of you and feel the treatment should work.

My 16 year old daughter is experiencing the same thing for the past three weeks. After reading many of you getting no solid answers from doctors I am going to try to very strong supplements called Serra Enzyme and CurcuminX4000 agressivly for the next few months and see if I get better results than the doctors. I don't want her to be on anti-inflammatories, since that is a natural response the body is trying to fight something, nor do I want steroids in my 16yr old. 

Thank you all for sharing so that I can make all efforts before I too get told it's nothing, because it is something. 

 

Concerned mommy.

 

I am experiencing the same sensations now. I have been diagnosed with hypothyroidis and currently have nodules on my thyroid and sometimes my thyroid becomes inflamed which causes the achey sensation in the neck and around the ears. I'm saying this to suggest that you speak with your dr about checking your thyroid for possible inflammation. I also have bulging and herniated disks in my neck which sometimes pinches the nerves and causes these sensations as well. So for me it could be either one of these contributing to my pain.

I have had the same issue for a few years now its not all the time its off and on but its on the left and right side and its deep and you can only feel it if you put your finger in and feel it but it dose get hurting some times worse then others

John G. I am looking this up because I just started the tenderness in my throat about 2 inches below jaw on left side. I have to push with my finger to locate it, But when I do it is very sore. It feel like it shoots up below my left ear.

OMG, I have the same pain on the left side, I have had CAT scan for my head, left neck, and my shoulder, no one seems to know the cause for the pain. My head gets very heavy and the vain on my left arm down to my wedding ring finger is so painful.. I don't know what to do. My ear doctor said that it might be TMJ. which I don't think it is. The lymph node on the left side of my neck is a little bit bigger than normal.

You may want to get an xray. My dentist found that I have a condition call Eagle Syndrom. Look up Eagle Syndrom to see if your symptoms match

I don't want to scare anybody but don't give up make the doctors run test until they find out what is wrong doctors may misdiagnose or miss something because they usually only focus on the main symtpoms and diagnoses they are use to i have the same problem but i have hyperthyroidism so to answer one of your questions there are lymph nodes deep in your neck but we also have the thyroids, tonsils, parathyroids, trachea, larynx, one of our major arteries there are numerous things in your neck that can be causing a problem. For others it could be something as simple as a muscle strain. So the best advice i can give is go to the doctor when it hurts the most more than likely when it hurts most it will be most inflamed that might help the doctor find the problem.

Yes, I had the same symptoms and I went for Lymphatic Massage and I no longer have the pain.  Worth a try!  It only took 2 visits and some easy, easy things to do at home and no more pain!!  It may work for you. At least start there and then go medical.

Its ironic. That I have the same problem and I am in the same house as a massage therepist I found that this problem Oxford after I tured my head to one side the opposite. To Im guessing everyone lol but upon turning my head I swallowed hard an experienced a massive spike of pain that last several minutes I could almost feel it in my tungue after my neck in the place u all have described has felt as you have described I've come to a possible conclusion perhapps you were sleeping and swallows hard while your head was turned or quite busy talking and carding on when it had happens to you the conclusion is that the upper most section of the voice box and the muscles in contact had a war ...... lol jk but they did they where in such tension when the swallowing occurred that they jerked violently chasing slight inflammation inturn cuaseing some slight lymphnod cunfusion pherhaps? ? But the imflamation is not a perhamps but a deffinate just relax leave it be and don't prod the area your not E.T probing cows if indeed this turns out to be more than said possibilighty I would like to know thank you

I started having this same pain on the left side of my neck and it seems to travel down to the left collarbone.  It seems to come and go and when it comes back, it makes me think I'm having some sort of heart problem since the heart is on the left side.  I'm relieved that I'm not the only one whose had this and that other doctors haven't diagnosed this as anything cancer or heart related.

eeks! me too...I've posted elsewhere but this topic seems to be right on...for over 10 years (and I'm not dead yet) I've had a very small red spot on the left side of my neck which hurts in the morning and when I touch it...it hasn't spread  but I don't know what it is..  just watching to see if anyone knows... Could it be a shingles spot?  I figured in the whole scheme of things it wasn't important but I'd like to know what it is and it seems stupid to go to the doctor over such a small thing...thanks!

Have you been to the dentist to see if you have an impaction or an absess in your jaw and gum line. Sometimes the slightest infection in your mouth can cause lymph nodes to flair up.

Have any of you had surgery on your parotid gland? I did and most of you are describing my symptoms to a tee.