1:40 AM I was wrong. External carotids go under the mandible. But the bulge on my right mandible kinda surrounds the edge of the mandible and could still block the artery. I feel a pulse right under it that i don't on the right side at the same position. In this image, the right carotid is much thicker and closer to surface than the left, in the area where i see that pulsation or next to the clavicle.

11:40 It worked! The trick with water in the patch. I felt heat in all the numb areas for the last 24 hours, on 4 patches and the numbness is almost gone. Neuropathy? But read this: The pulsation in my neck is almost gone! So it was infection related. Bulges in the parotid gland areas are smaller. Still some difficulty typing.

Trouble was this morning at 7 the last new patch was itching so badly i had to remove it (removed one earlier). Then i slept 5 more hours, without any. Nothing changed much though. I applied a couple of new ones right now, again on the spine. The duck tape is not ideal i guess, it can only stay about 48 hours before starting to itch. Regular 3x4 band aid patches are not an option because are porous.

Lisinopril and different dust sources in the apartment, including the large areas on top of fans blade made me cough like crazy. So i decided to quit smoking. Didn't smoke in 24  hours. Could that have helped with the pulsation as well?

Could have been infectious stenosis of aortic valve that goes away with antibiotics? Last night i spent an  hour or so listening to my heart with a stethoscope. Did not hear any murmur, just an intermittent split of second sound, S2, one out of 5 to one out of 10, when expiring.

Invest 20 dollars in a stethoscope. Auscultation (listening to heart and lung sound) can be a great way to diagnose or discover heart conditions, because when blood is moving through the normal or abnormal heart it makes different sounds. There are videos with heart sounds for different conditions. But it takes some courage to listen to your own heart.

12:15 PM The patch, last version. A piece of duck tape, an aspirin and a blunt needle. Have to clean the area real well with rubbing alcohol, otherwise will fell soon. Apply it like that on the cleaned area with the needle on the sticky part and then inject 1 cm of water. Then remove the needle and press the tape in that area. Aspirin will last about 24 hours of continuous administration.

BTW do you know why it's called Duck Tape? Because if  you peel suddenly about 6 inches of it, it makes a sound like the quack of a duck.

BTW i bought 9 syringes of different sizes with 9 blunt needles on Amazon. But i can't find the needles no more. 1:36 Angela noticed an increase in water pressure when she took her shower. I did not. I checked, the temperature is not higher on hot water only, and the water heater is quite new and i never screwed with the thermostat.