Samslife, it sounds like you might be dealing with a swollen lymph node, which happens for a variety of reasons. Often an infection will cause a lymph node to be swollen and painful.
Take a look at this graphic illustration of where your lymph nodes around the neck are located. It sounds to me as though the place you are describing is the place they note as the supraclavicular lymph nodes:
Interestingly, because I've read your other question about the long menstrual period, I'm wondering if the two of these things are linked. The supraclavicular lymph nodes have to do with the thorax and abdomen.
Here's a page from the Mayo Clinic on swollen lymph nodes; do the symptoms they write about sound like yours?
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Samslife, it sounds like you might be dealing with a swollen lymph node, which happens for a variety of reasons. Often an infection will cause a lymph node to be swollen and painful.
Take a look at this graphic illustration of where your lymph nodes around the neck are located. It sounds to me as though the place you are describing is the place they note as the supraclavicular lymph nodes:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.uptodate.com/online/content/images/onco_pix/Lymph_nodes_head_and_neck.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.uptodate.com/online/content/image.do%3FimageKey%3Donco_pix/lymph_8.htm%26title%3DLymph%2520nodes%2520head%2520and%2520neck&h=480&w=568&sz=33&tbnid=B4IJZFPTHPtAzM::&tbnh=113&tbnw=134&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlymph%2Bnodes%2Bneck&usg=__mBsLs7AxAkHaDta91qPk1P9So4Y=&ei=v2fnSeqgE4OItgfUzdDOBQ&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image
Is this the area you are having the pain?
And it's just on the one side?
Interestingly, because I've read your other question about the long menstrual period, I'm wondering if the two of these things are linked. The supraclavicular lymph nodes have to do with the thorax and abdomen.
Here's a page from the Mayo Clinic on swollen lymph nodes; do the symptoms they write about sound like yours?
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/swollen-lymph-nodes/DS00880
April 16, 2009 - 10:14amThis Comment
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