Vkossa,
I’m so sorry to read about your bad experience w/ this doctor. It’s so frustrating when doctors dismiss ES based on symptoms they are ignorant of. The pain in the ear area comes from the trigeminal nerve being irritated or compressed by ES. It is a VERY common symptom of ES. There are peer reviewed ES research papers that will confirm this information.Here is a link to a good one I found that verifies ear pain goes w/ ES: 133-SilpiranjanMishra18711876.pdf (1.1 MB)
retrorock and Delia are two members who had surgery in Sydney. I’m not sure if they both saw the same doctor. You can try PMing them to see how they’re doing now & who they saw. Just click on the name as it appears above one of their posts & that will put you to a page where you can PM one or both of them.