Many causes: Causes can be due to infection, trauma, foreign body among other things. You could be having a tonsillitis if you still have tonsils. You could have a scratch from a food particle such as a fish bone. You could a fish bone or other food particle stuck there. If it keeps bothering you see a doc.
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