 [ Symptoms ] severe pain in left ear randomly i get pretty severe pain in my left ear when looking straight its pretty painful but when i turn my head to the left it becomes an almost unbearable pain it seems to come on at complete random and has been happening for about a year the pain usually only lasts for a few hours but its happening often enough now that its starting to make me wonder if there is something wrong that i need to get checked out [ Disease ] of course you need to get it checked out i am surprised that it took you a year to get to this point there are many many causes of ear pain including many causes that do not involve the ear itself it is going to take a thorough systemic diagnostic work up to get to the bottom of this year long issue