Question: Over the past few months I have noticed a few problems start to arise between my ear, nose, and throat. The first thing I noticed was I felt like I had a headache over my left temple, and then it seemed like it moved around, but not to the other side. I noticed that I was unable to breathe out of my left nostril, and that it seemed like my hearing in my left ear was starting to go. At the same time I noticed that I had an enlarged lymph node at the rear of my jaw where my neck meets my head. In this area I am having severe pain. Almost like my tonsil is tearing every time I yawn. As time has progressed I have felt like my left side of my jaw needs to be poped as well.

These symptoms are all happening at the same time, and at times the pain has me almost in tears. I have been to the emergency room 4 times in the span of 2 months and they keep saying different things of what they "think" it may be. When I take the medications they perscribe nothing changes and nothing seems to help. I have had a ct scan and an x-ray, which have shown nothing. Strep test came back negative, and the doctor still said I had strep and gave me medications for it (which did not help.) I feel like I have to constantly "pop" my neck and upper back now.

I do not know what to do or who to see. I am just trying to get a sense of what may be wrong. As of today I finally got the left side of my jaw to pop, but it was from me talking and not trying to pop it. It almost sounded like something tore when it poped and not it hurts very bad! I know all of these symptoms are related in some way since they are all centered in the same area, but they keep gettng worse and no one is willing to hear my side of what is wrong. Everyone just want to try something else even after I told them the same treatment is not working.

Would doing this help to reduce the swelling in my lymph gland in my neck and stop the pain I have around the lymph/tonsil whenever I yawn or blow my nose?