Hello!

I started having minor ear pain off and on. Then I developed what I think is a canker sore under my tongue. The concern is it feels like a canker sore as in the burn and pain, but the pain sort of radiates up to my ear. It's also not circlular like I know canker sores, but sort of a small line under my tongue.

My question is, I saw this come in from healthy skin to what it is today over a couple days. Does it looking like a line going up the bottom of my tongue still a characteristic of a canker sore?

It's been about a week and some days. So, I'm still playing the waiting game on 2 - 3 weeks to see if it heals on its own before I head over to a ENT (starting my second week now). I've had major dental work in the past 6 months and have had my oral surgeon / dentist just do a visual/feel examine for cancer being I am a former smoker with bad teeth prior to this sore coming in. He didn't notice anything. But this sore came out of nowhere. Seems to be impacting my ear or radiating to my ear and is taking awhile to heal. Got me stressed a bit. Yet the pain has went down a lot sense a couple days ago, yet still there in some form only when I move my tongue a certain way.