Why am I getting earache in the evenings?

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I had a cold about a month ago and a few days of a painful earache.

All better now, except every evening around 6pm the earache starts building until by bedtime it's reached a point where I'm considering painkillers.

It doesn't bother me the rest of the day and is fine by morning. I have a doctors appointment tomorrow but it won't be bothering me while I'm there and I feel like they'll think I'm imagining it. Surely you either have earache or you don't?!

It's uncomfortable rather than agonisingly painful which is what I'd usually associate with an ear infection.

I’m not sure if this helps but I get really awful ear pain sometimes that is worse in the evening and always better in the morning. Had brain scans initially but didn’t show anything. Mine is worse in times of stress and I notice that I can almost click something when I move my jaw. I find that mine is worse for a few seconds if I lean my ear against hubbys chest for a cuddle then I feel something ‘click’ and it stops. If this doesn’t work the pressure on the ear of side sleeping resolves it.