Pain

[Ccoyote]

Hello
for a little while now I have had this sharp pain located around my left ear
like inside of it and just behind it
I went to my doctor and he looked inside and said it wasn't an ear infection and he also prescribed some penicillin to try and clear it up but its still there
i asked my dentist if it would be from my recent wisdom teeth being removed but nothing
so I am wondering what it would be
like im 20 years old not over weight average really. i play soccer twice a week and i am in pretty good shape
and i wonder
would it be like cancer or a tumor or something ?

[ggreg]

Now I feel dumb saying all that stuff about your wisdom teeth, but I always pass out too much information.  Here is a website that discusses a lot of stuff about unidentified causes of ear pain:
http://www.fauquierent.net/otalgia.htm

Maybe that'll give you some ideas.  I think you might visit an ear nose throat ENT doc, they are specifically skilled in figuring out what's wrong with your ear, stuff you regular doc might have missed.  If you have a sinus infection, by the way, it can make the ear hurt.  If you like to swim in a pond or creek, fungus can get in there, you can put a drop of alcohol and a drop of white vinegar in there, it helps prevent stuff from growing.  If you hurt your neck recently, the discomfort can migrate up to the ear.  But go to an ENT, he can wash out your ears, and he can spot, say, a ruptured eardrum or hole in it better than your regular doc can, and so forth.  Plus he will know if anything complex, such as the stuff at the website I gave you, might be the problem you have, to include neuro stuff that I threw out the window before.

[Ccoyote]

okay picture this
take your left hand and put it around your left ear
that whole area hurts
from time to time sometimes a few seconds some times minutes
when i got my wisdom teeth out it was like november 2009 and its now july 2010
it feels like a sharp pain is right on the inside
its to much to handle sometimes and when i go to my doctor he looks in my ear and see's nothing
my dentist sees nothing either
anything i could do or ask my doctor to look for

[ggreg]

No, not cancer, at least not likely.  But getting those wisdom teeth out, takes a while to clear any infection where the roots of the teeth were.  I don't know why the dentist said "no" to that, because I think a little infection is going on in the tissues around the pulled wisdom teeth, maybe even an abscess.  If you have an abscess, you'll feel a lump in your cheek near there, or if a neighboring tooth hurts when you push on it, the dentist will have to check THAT tooth out for a cavity.  At least you were given penicillin for the ear, it should also take out the bacteria where your wisdoms were, takes a couple weeks for the medicine to work.  Also, sometimes when a dentist gives a numbing shot, it'll hit on a nerve and make it feel bad for quite a while, but then it goes away.  Or could be a nerve that supplied your wisdom teeth is still firing off and hurting, which will also go away.

If you do have an infection or pain from your mouth, there are several ways to speed healing, try some of these for a week.  Gently swish some very warm salt water in your mouth and gargle with it several times a day, keep the rest of your teeth clean after meals with a baking soda/peroxide toothpaste, drink some decaff green tea (it boosts the bacteria-fighting immune system) and add sugar and milk so it won't taste so bad, and gently massage your face about where the wisdom teeth were to improve blood circulation and healing, and push downward on your lymphs from your ear to your neck and push down from between your jaw and throat towards your chest, and then swallow real good, helps clear the lymphs of any infection.

To make the pain sort of settle down for the next week, you can lay a damp washcloth, either warm or cool, right where it hurts, it will temporarily ease the pain.  Aspirin or alka seltzer is really good for tooth pain, and you can hold the liquid seltzer on the side of your mouth where it hurts for a few seconds before swallowing.  And thru this whole thing, drink extra water, water helps break up and drain any infection in the body.  After a week of all this jazz, if it still hurts, I hope you will go back to your doctor and really crank up the whining, tell about possible abscess from tooth removal, the list of possibilities goes on, and so he needs to run a few tests and do some labwork, maybe an X-ray, and figure out what IS going on.  Let us know.

[Londres70]

Hmmmm, why would he prescribe an ATB (Penicillin) after stating you did NOT have any infection?

Sounds like it is related to your wisdom teeth extractions.  

Highly DOUBT this is ANY cancer/tumor.