Kelley, Sorry I didn't see your post until tonight. I hope your doc visit went better than you thought. Yes I still have a "ear sensation" some might call it an ear ache. I also have the one sided sinus/nose stuffyness that is worse in the morning. The stiff neck is almost an every day event. Sometimes it is unbearable. When that happens its 5mg diazepam and two asprin. Besides all of those sensations, the week before any doctor visit is the time I "feel" all kinds of bad stuff.

Keep a diary of symptoms like you describe and add in the days events. If you are like me you will find a certain rhythm to these events. Stress will cause worse problems. Also after a while you will see that todays symptom that is sure to be cancer will be very similar to the things you wrote in the diary two months earlier. (that turned out to be nothing)

Let us know how things are

Mark, 21 Year survivor, SCC right tonsil, 3 nodes positive, one with extra-capsular spread. I never asked what stage (would have scared me anyway) Right side tonsillectomy, radical neck dissection right side, maximum radiation to both sides, no chemo, no PEG, age 40 when diagnosed.