Hello all, it’s been awhile. I’ve been doing well with my anxiety lately. But today I started having a pain on or behind my carotid artery. The area is very tender to touch. Pain doesn’t exactly increase when I move it. Mainly it’s very tender. Also very vaguely hurts when doing not doing. The pain kind of radiates up the side of my neck to my ear. I want to say and hope it’s muscle related, but it not increasing with movement has me jumping to further unqualified conclusions.