| It sounds to me like you have an abscess on your lower lip. I'm assuming from your description that what you are dealing with is stemming from the inside of your lip and not the outside.
I have gotten one before, although thankfully it wasn't on an area that I needed to play. Mine came from one day while I was chewing ice and I accidentally bit the inside of my lip HARD...hard enough to draw blood. Anyway, the wound closed but got infected anyway and I finally "popped" it by biting through it. Painful, but it worked. I don't necessarily recommend that for you though.
It could be that you have just overworked the area though and have experienced a muscle tear. Did the doc suggest that you stop playing for a time and let it heal? If not, that's about the best advice I can give you. If it is an infection, it's possible that it won't heal up right until it has been drained which means that it has to be lanced and cleaned out with sterile water. Then, you will probably get a prescription for both an anti-inflamatory and an antibiotic - all assuming that you do indeed have an abscess in your lip. If not, staying off of it for week or so (if you can) and taking a healthy dose of an anti-inflamatory such as ibuprofin might help if it's an inflamation of the muscle tissue in the area, or an inner inflamation of the soft tissue of the lip.
Good luck. I don't envy you right now.
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