update

[Megan74]

I saw the nurse practitioner yesterday. This is what she said.
Cervical neck pain; Radioculpathy; Muscle tension H/A; Trapezius muscle spasms; Eustachian Tube dysfunction. She prescribed muscle relaxant; Ibuprofene 800 mg; nasal spray; Physical Therapy
My face like the whole cheek feels hot numb tingly also my lips chin area. It feels like it is burning even asked my mom to touch she said both sides feel the same. The nurse practitioner said it may be caused by the nerves being pushed.
I hope that is all it is and nothing more serious with circulation, tumors, aneurysms or other bad things...Thank you very much for all your input once again. From the bottom of my heart wishing everyone  healthy long life.
My symptoms were: head pressure, sides of head above ears around ears, on top of head, back of head, pressure was so severe though. also back of my head sometime felt like it was an open sore burning.
my ears plugged as well. sometime only left cheek the whole left side of face feeling like it was burning (feeling extremely hot) tingles and numbness as well tu my lips, chin, then sometime the right side of my head feeling numb heavy and ear plugging up, sometime both ears plugged up. also had numbness on my toes feet. when i get up in the morning i have no problem as soon as i sit or get up i start to get my ears plugged and my head starts to get the pressure. as soon as i lay down my symptoms go away. i'm still worried but let's see... :(
thank you again everyone and maybe my symptoms and my prelimenary diagnosis by the nurse practitioner may help others...

[Jangles11]

Did you ever have find out what was going on?  I have had some of the similiar syptoms, so I am just curious.

[Jenny Wren]

I know all about the head pressure, I get pressure feeling also in my cheek (left) it feels like someone applying their hand on my face a pressing on it, it is not painful, just annoying.  When I feel the pressure, I get a buzzing, or bug crawling sensation that lasts for a few seconds.  Neck movement makes these worse.  Yes, mine doesn't seem to do it when I lay down, but as soon as I sit up I get the pressure feeling.  I have been in 3 car accidents, one when I was 18, now 36, but my migraines and this weird facial stuff started about 3 months after the 2nd accident, which was 6 years ago.  I was going to PT when the last one occured in Aug 06.  Then I got smacked in the forehead with a 6 in round tree limb while riding on a quad.  This really made things worse.  I am in misery as we speak.  I woke up yesterday with a terrific migraine, and my neck is killing me today.  Maybe try PT if possible.  I'm going to talk to my doc tomorrow about going again myself.  The traction helped a good bit.  I also receive trigger point injections in my shoulders, neck and occipitial region, they help for about 3 weeks.  It really sucks.  I hope you feel better soon!!!

[Megan74]

WOW are you serious? I had MRI of my neck but didn't have much symptoms then just numbness in arms at that time. My chiro told me that my neck doesn't have curve either. He said it is more straight. Did you use to have problems when you get up and move around that is standing or sitting and get relief when you wake up in the morning? That is when you first get up no symptoms but as you get up move araound your symptoms start? I always had problems for sometime now, but now I can't function. I get pressure in my head, around ears. My ears feel plugged, sometime its just one cheek and ear, sometime both ears. sometime tingles on one side of head, other times both sides , like my whole one side of head cheek ears feel hot burning and plugged. :((( its weird. lately really weird. Thank you so much for your comments. My symptoms are getting worse with each passing day since the car accident i had two years ago...a car backed into us from my door passanger side...

[Jenny Wren]

This is what the pain specialist doc tells me.  They say its all muscular, I can actually push a sore spot on the side of my neck and it will automatically tingling on my left cheek, weird.  My ears hurt from muscle spasms in my neck, they feel clogged, and I just noticed lately that it seems hard to swallow food or carbonated drinks.  Just to let you know, I have had a brain MRI and it was deemed "normal".  I do though have a bulging disk in my neck, so this may play a role also.  There is no curvature either, lucky me.  It may sound weird, but xanax helps me with the ear pain and facial stuff, probably because it has mild muscle relaxants in it.  I hope you feel better.  I have been dealing with this for 6 years, no fun.  Take care!!!