Hello,

I've had on and off throat pain since August. Back in august I had a horrible flu like illness - cold symptoms, blocked sinuses, fever and vomitting. This is when I started getting pain in my left ear and left side of the throat, and one of my lymph nodes on the left side swelled up. The lymph node never went completely down but did shrink a little but my doctor said that's pretty normal. But the pain in the left side of my throat has remained, I would describe it more as pain than soreness. Sometimes my ear, neck and left shoulder also hurt with it. Sometimes I don't notice it, sometimes it's pretty bad.

I have also recently noticed a hard lump over a rib on the left side of my chest, it feel just like a rib and my doctor said the same but it's clearly asymetrical with the other side. I'm worried this could be related?

I have no other symptoms, my voice is absolutely fine, I don't have a cough, no fever, weight loss or anything. Just this pain on one side of the throat all the time. My doctor did blood tests a couple of weeks ago and everything came back normal. I have another appointment on Wednesday but I am just so worried. Any idea's what this could be?!

Also, I am a music teacher so I spend a lot of my time talking/singing, I have also been told by my dentist that my bottom left wisdom tooth is impacted so these could be linked.