Hello, I am a 33 year old female (5'8", 160 lbs, no health problems, non-smoker). I've been having a dull, throbbing pain behind my left ear for over 5 weeks now. At first it was only when I would lay down and for the first couple hours of the day (it would go away as the day went on) but now it is pretty much constant. I went to my dr. a couple weeks ago and he thought it might be muscular (although it doesn't get any worse with movement and there is no swelling) so he gave me naproxen (sp) and a muscle relaxer, neither of which has helped. No swelling, lymph nodes aren't swolen, just the constant achey feeling behind the ear and kind of down into the neck.