If your symptoms are positional, varying with movement, worsening in certain positions, one possibility is that they are related to arthritis in your neck. Arthritis of
the spine in
the neck area can occasionally lead to
pain referred to
the head, around
the ear area if the C2 nerve root is involved. If you have shooting pains that travel from your neck to your head, this could be radiculopathy. The spinal cord is encased by bones called vertebra.