Possible nerve Damage in my Left ear?

[jorced]

To Doctors,

I am a healthy 32 year old male, I work and excersize daily. I travel very often and I am a social drinker on the weekends. Well for the past 6 years on a span of every 2 months or so I get this sharp pain in my left earlobe. I can honestly say it feels like a nerve that ends at the tip of the earlobe I belive its called the larynx, pharynx. This is definately a sharp pin n needle feeling, it usually lasts about 15 miuntes till it gets to the excruciating level and stops, and goes away and i am able to function again. However moments before hand what triggers it may be a sudden movement of my head, rubbing my ear to much, or just like as if i displaced dat nerve or i moved it. I have no headaches associated, no other pain at all. Overall I would say that I rarely get sick, of anything, seldom colds, but nothing serious. This past pain episode in my ear left a tickly feeling at the jaw/ear location. no pain, but as stated before, it almost feels like a nerve issue, cause  anywhere I rub my face even so gently causes that tickling feeling at the jaw/ear location. No pain, or sharp pins and needles - but I cannot help to guess that my nerve is sensitive.

To go back in history of how this started, about 6 years ago - I used to wear very very tight glasses and used to talk on my cell phone till the batter went dead almost everyday. I noticed everytime I took off my glasses, I there was a slight pain in the left ear, only the left, though the right was feeling pain as well, but the left was bad, all of a sudden one day this sharp pin  and needle pain just started while i was wearing the glasses. I changed my glasses like a year later and this time it was light, but I would say every 2 months or so this pain returns ever since then.

I told my doctor this, but could not see an immediate issue. Asking me extensive questions, regarding pain elsewhere and body fuctions. Every body function is 100% active and well used through, and have no compaints elsewhere.

Should I be concerned with this pain I have, and seek emergency help? or should I try seeking specialists that may try to numb this very annoying and excruciating pain that ocurrs as soon as I do an abrubt movement to my face.

Thank you for your time.

[ggreg]

I think you may be onto something there.  Yes, get the dentist to check you out for a bad tooth on the left side.  If he pulls it out, but you still get pain in your ear once in a while all over again, then visit an ear nose throat ENT doc to look in your ear and perhaps treat you for that sort of problem.  But yeah, those back teeth have nerves that can zing like yours and hurt, they're really close to the ear, so that's probably it.

[jorced]

Can this pain, be attributed to the wisdom tooth? I have been suspecting this - however the dentist was not on my mind untill I felt the senstivity on my gums, at the top left pat of my mouth,