I feel like the area between the bottom of my ear and my jaw is swollen. It does not look it, but it feels soar when I move my head to the left or lower my head toward my chest. It's like having swollen glands but the area is not under my jaw where my glands are....it's more to the side of my jaw where it hits my ear. Over the past several weeks, I have felt this "twinge" in that area but when I go to press it, I can't really find the area that "twinged". However, when I woke up this a.m., it felt sore....like touching a sore muscle. My mother died of non-hodgkins lymphoma. I don't seem to have any swollen lymph nodes anywhere. Is this something I need to get checked?