Head Pain

I am a 25 year old female in pretty good health.  I am overweight but my blood pressure and everything like that always turns out to be perfect.  I have recently been experiencing a lot of symptoms related to severe panic disorder and anxiety attacks.  The first signs began about 5 months ago and since then they have just gotten worse.  For the past 3 weeks, I have been experiencing head pains.  The pain is almost always right about my left ear and it always feels the same.  It isn't what I would call severe, but it is an annoyance.  It lasts for about 5-10 minutes and goes away for a couple minutes then comes back.  This cycle can last from 30 minutes to 3 hours.  I will also just feel the pain every once in a while for a quick second and then it goes away.  I notice that I am really tensed up sometimes when this happens.  I am not sure what is causing this.  Most of the things that I have been reading up on suggest a tumor.  This is really scary which doesn't help sense I already suffer from immense anxiety.  Is anyone else experiencing anything like this??

[Roger Gould, M.D.]

KC......although this sounds like anxiety, you still have to watch it and have it checked out if it persists or gets worse.

[Alycat742]

I have had similar localized head pain off and on.  I do think, for me at least, it's related to anxiety and stress.  I think they are cluster headaches.  

[shaggy29]

the first things that come to my mind are trigeminal neuralgia and cluster headaches