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Ear tenderness to touch

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Ear tenderness to touch

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39 year experience in Internal Medicine

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Ear

Is Symptom of

Ear canal infection
Condition
Swimmer's ear (outer ear canal infection)
Condition
Mastoiditis
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A 26-year old female asked:

I look down at my tablet quite often. Keep getting pain at very back of head on right side level with top of ear tender to touch,hurts when i shiver?

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A 23-year old male asked:

Yesterday I hit my head quite hard Since I have been very tender just behind/above my ear. Tender to touch, hurt when moving eyebrows. Should I worry?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A 49-year old female asked about a 20-year old female:

My Daughter is experiencing ear swelling and ear tenderness to touch. She had her tragus pierced a week ago today.

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A 31-year old female asked:

I am experiencing ear tenderness to touch, fatigue, hearing loss (side: one side) , ear pressure and ear ache (quality: stinging or burning sensation, dull or aching sensation, feels sharp or stabbing, throbbing sensation, sensation of pressure or fullne

1 doctor answer • 4 doctors weighed in

A 43-year old male asked:

Redness at top of right ear , tender to the touch?

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A 35-year old female asked:

Bump above right ear, tender to the touch. Thought it was a pimple under the skin, been there for 3 days and is getting more painful. It's red and hard and i tried to pop it to relieve pressure and it just becomes more painful. ?

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A 19-year old female asked:

Lump behind my left ear tender to the touch hurts down my neck nosea feeling like im going to throw up after eating and sharp pains in belly ?

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A 34-year old female asked:

I have a lump on the back of head right on top of neck line. In addition, the left side back of the ear area is tender to touch. What could that be?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A female asked:

My 6 yrs daughter has swallowed ear lobe after 1 week of ear piercing which is tender to touch. what to do. please help?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A 22-year old female asked:

I have a bump behind my left ear that is tender to the touch and was wondering what it could be. Dot believe it's an allergic reaction to earring beca?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A female asked:

The upper part (near my cartilage) of my ear is swollen, tender to touch and warm. I have had previous ear infections. But this is definitely not an ear infection. I have tried putting a heating pad and an ice pack on it.

2 doctor answers • 2 doctors weighed in

A 25-year old female asked:

Why is the left side of my head tender to touch? I also have a slight ear ache. 4 days now

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A member asked:

I have this pain in my right side of my head just above my right ear. Sudden sharp pain and goes away but constant dull pain. Tender to touch.

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A 20-year old female asked:

Pea-sized skin-colored lump behind the left ear, been there for years, doesn't move when touched, gets tender sometimes, what could it be?

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A 26-year old asked:

I found a mass the size of a thumbprint that's firm/bony &very tender to the touch. It's on the left side ear level. Below it, sore node on back neck?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A 21-year old male asked:

I woke up yesterday with a pain underneath my right ear at the back of the jaw. It's tender to the touch and today it seems a little closer to the ear?

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A 25-year old male asked:

I woke up with a tender to the touch on my right jaw. There is a small bump located directly below the ear and less than half an inch away from the ear on my jaw. Thoughts on what this possibly is?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A 32-year old female asked:

When I turn my head, something within my R. ear feels like its pulling. Its tender to touch, Sharp pain even when applying facial lotion..15+ years ago, hit by volleyball close range in that same side. Feel it now.. Both ears are sensitive to noise?

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A 23-year old female asked:

Tenderness when i touch the bone behind my ear with no other symptoms, for two days now?

1 doctor answer • 2 doctors weighed in

A 24-year old female asked:

My preauricular ear hole has yellow pus coming out, feels swollen and tender at touch- how should I treat it?

2 doctor answers • 3 doctors weighed in

A female asked:

All on my left side, the top of my scalp is very tender to touch and I'm getting sharp shooting pain in the top to middle of my ear. I'm also feeling ?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A female asked:

I woke up this morning with two lumps behind my ear. They are rock hard and tender to touch. I have also had a bad headache all day. What could it be ?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A 30-year old female asked:

Left temple pressure/pain for 3 days. Not affecting vision but feel a bit foggy brained. Tender to touch, can't lay on that side on pillow. Ringing in ears. What could it be?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A 27-year old male asked:

Scalp is tender to touch and pain Beijing right ear and back of head when I cough but then it goes away? Could it be a tumor?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A 33-year old female asked:

The area behind my ears, on the bones feels tender to touch and slightly swollen at a few places since yesterday. What could it be?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A 29-year old male asked:

Lymph node behind left ear is hurting/throbbing and tender to touch. Its been on and off for a few weeks now ever since I came back from Yosemite?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A 29-year old male asked:

Left neck under ear has off and on dull pain throughout the day, also very localized left shoulder pain, but not muscular, and not tender to touch.

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A 58-year old male asked:

58yo, M, healthy. Noticed a bone bump behind right ear closer to the top. Lump small, not visible , but palpable. Can be tender to touch. Please advise?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A 39-year old asked:

I have severe pain left side if head and ear ache left ear comes and goes can be very painfull and tender to touch around temple area?

3 doctor answers • 11 doctors weighed in

A 42-year old female asked:

Hi. I found a raised lump behind my right ear, yesterday, that is slightly tender to the touch. It seems to be on my bone and feels very hard.

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

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