** SOLVED **. After living with these headaches for years and trying to manage trigger points (wet paint, leaving my contacts in overnight, not getting enough sleep, getting too much sleep....on and on), I believe I finally found the root cause of my issue. A potassium deficiency.
I now eat 2 bananas a day....one after I wake-up, 1 with dinner (point being separate them by ~12 hours). I am med free, headache free, have much more energy, and overall just feel 100% better. Why my body demands a steady feed of potassium I don't know and don't care at this point! :-) If I go a couple of days with no bananas....energy level drops very noticeably and the headaches return. In general I'd say I eat a pretty decent diet.
I'm posting this in a hope that it will help someone else with their mind bending headaches. Try it, what's the worse that could happen?
For those of you struggling with these headaches and can't find relief, I pray for you and will continue doing so.
Cheers.
Hi there.
Your recurrent ear infections may be due to some anatomic problems in the development of your ears and to a structure called eustachian tubes (the tubes that connect your middle ear to the nasal cavity). Problems with this tubes will cause inadequate drainage of middle ear fluids that makes it prone to infections. Your ENT plan of putting a tympanic tube sounds appropriate. I seem can't find a strong correlation with your present problems with the previous ones, I also doubt if this has something to do with TMJ.
I hope that your ear problem will get fixed soon, and the pain would be adequately controlled. Take care and God bless.