Bizarre sore throat

[greycobalt]

A few days ago, I realized the inside of my mouth was hurting. At first it felt like an odd pressure, almost like I had cut myself inside my mouth. Feeling around with my tongue, I did find two area that seemed to be very small chunks missing in the gum, but pushing on them or around them did not cause any pain. A few hours after this occurred, it started hurting when I swallowed. The odd thing about it though is that my whole throat didn't hurt (technically it wasn't even my throat). The far back roof of my mouth on my right side would hurt every time I swallowed or yawned, but not to chew, move my mouth around, or talk.

The next day, it seemed better during the day. I definitely was not in as much pain. However, at night, it came back, and it was worse this time. An area above the back of molar hurt to put pressure on, and every time I swallowed. This eventually started hurting so bad the pain traveled to my ear, and then up to my temple and gave me a slight headache. Later that night it randomly appeared in the bottom right of my throat. There's a completely distinguishable "pain-free" zone between the two sore spots now. The spots hurt BAD though. Bad enough to wake me up constantly. The one on the lower right side definitely hurts worse, and it's definitely more in my throat than in my mouth like the first one.

I saw a doctor today, and he said almost nothing helpful. They did a strep test which came back negative, and he said I should probably wait it out. He looked in my throat and didn't comment, so I'm assuming he didn't see anything remarkable. When I look myself, I can't really see anything but a slight reddening of where it hurts. The only other thing I can think to add is that starting last night, there's a weird texture to the areas that hurt...almost more "slimy" than the rest of my mouth. It feels very odd, and the swallowing pain is bordering on unbearable.

I looked at a few other forums, and my only luck was finding a group of people describing close to this exact problem, but not ending up with any answers. Does anyone here have any idea what this could possibly be?

[greycobalt]

Thank you for your reply! Around 2 days after I made this post, the pain and symptoms went away on their own. Without anything else to go on, I thought it may have been my wisdom teeth, since the back of my mouth around my molars feels different to me now, though I don't know if they can come in as late as 26.

I do have severe TMJ, which I also thought was a likely culprit. My mouth cannot open or close without the massive popping of my jaw. Basically any movement of my jaw causes it, and it can be quite irritating at times, but usually not painful.

As for lymph nodes, I was incorrectly diagnosed with lymphoma early last year, and only found out it was not through a biopsy of my right-side lymph node in my neck. Since that whole issue, my lymph nodes have been constantly swollen, so they're not a good indicator of anything else being wrong unfortunately.

Thank you very much for your time and response! It's greatly appreciated.