Wuts wrong with my tongue?

I've had my tongue pierced for 4 years now and I've never had any problems with it. it's never been infected or anything. the otherday I noticed pain in my tongue, I figured I must have bit it or played with my tongue ring to much. but then it started...

to hurt more and I noticed that there is a blueberry sized lump INSIDE my tongue, not ON it, IN it. it's not around my piercing, it's in front of it right in the middle. I don't think it's really even from my tongue piercing because it's not the piercing that hurts and there's no weird colors or puss or anything, the only way I know it there is by feeling it. what is going on?

it could still be infection playing with your tongue ring can cause tiny tears in the walls of the piercing hole through which bacteria can enter and cause infection. Go to the doctor not the dentist