Sharp pain near my ear

Maybe you just have some kind of crazy filter turned on?

Actually, you know what? That’s not a bad idea at all. It's right near my wisdom tooth—though honestly, there's barely anything left of it but a tiny root and some fragments. I've been putting off getting it pulled and taking an X-ray for over a year now.

The thing is, it doesn't actually hurt, which is why I keep procrastinating. Plus, I have a massive phobia of needles. I had this horrible experience once where my dentist hit a nerve directly; I ended up with half of my face and my tongue feeling completely numb for three whole months. Everything just went totally dead. Back then, I didn't know I was living with MS, but looking back, I can't help but wonder if they were connected. Now, I'm just terrified of having a repeat of that sensation.

I just had a hunch it might be an upper tooth. They can cause these weird, nonsensical pains that you wouldn't even associate with a tooth at first glance. If there’s some kind of inflammation near the root, that could definitely be it—especially since you mentioned it's a pulsing sensation.

Go see a dentist. At the very least, have them take an X-ray to see if there's something going on inside the tooth.

It isn’t really a throbbing sensation, more like this sharp, sudden, stabbing pain. It feels almost like being poked with a needle.
However, there's a chance it could be a tooth issue, even though I don't feel any sensitivity directly in the tooth itself.

Melissa James70, is this similar to what these guys have?

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Multipl...s/show/1419017

And they have MS too...

I was actually just about to mention that my neck muscles have been killing me for two days straight now! 🙂

I initially blamed it on my trip to the hair salon; they have one of those adjustable sinks that keeps sinking down, so I had to manually adjust it back up five or six times because my head was tilted at such an awkward angle. Honestly, I think I managed to get a muscle strain just from ten minutes of holding my head in such an unnatural position. Plus, I’ve been doing some weighted neck exercises during my yoga sessions over the last couple of days, so it’s probably just a perfect storm of everything catching up to me at once.

Comparing our experiences, the main difference is where the pain hits. Melissa James70 feels hers right at the hairline, whereas mine is also at the base but slightly higher up. Also, my discomfort is just a quick one-second flash, while hers lasts for 10 to 30 seconds and keeps coming back every minute or so—hers seems to happen at longer intervals.
There are definitely quite a few similarities, though.
I just woke up and my neck is still sore, but it hasn't completely incapacitated me yet, so I'm really hoping it starts to ease up soon.