What is this strange lump appeared behind my ear overnight?

I think you should go see your doctor. The back of the ear is much too near the brain not to take precautions.

Yes, lymph nodes can get inflamed over night. However, you might want to show this to your doctor. An inflamed lymph node is often a sign of infection and so you might need antibiotic treatment.

It could possibly be a zit as well. Like this. Yet who knows, a zit could be a lymph node.

eeew! and i’m a nurse.

You realize it’s the morning after Halloween, right? ;-)

Yeah, see a doctor if it doesn’t go away soon. You might try applying moist heat to it in the meantime. I’ve had a lymph node get swollen on occasion when I got a mosquito bite close to it.

Lymph node.

When you say behind your ear? Do you mean right behind the earlobe or higher in your hair line, where? Is the area red? A lymph node would not make the exterior skin red most likely. It could be a pimple or a gathering of oils, or a cyst. If you have no other symptoms I would wait a week and see if it is getting better. BUT it is on your head, so if for any reason you feel it might be getting larger, if you have symptoms that feel like the pain is spreading, go to a doctor right away.

Try the webMD symptom checker, I’ve always found that very helpful.

yeah it has receded some. pretty sure it was stress and fighting some illness/cold. it is getting better… thanks

Good.

i also woke up one night with a weird bump on the back of my head, it kinda makes it hurt to turn my neck since it is almost on my neck and is sore to the touch and they day before that i got stung by a bee on the top of my head in a different spot than the bump does anyone know if they can be connected? it kinda throbs if i put my hand on it