Harrison Sure.
I won't go into the backstory, but I was suffering from a sense of "Fullness" in my right ear and a pain in my right jawline, about an inch below where the TMJ is. I went to my regular doctor, who referred me to a crappy ENT. The crappy ENT looked and didn't see anything wrong, gave me a course of steroid and antibiotics and sent me on my way. Neither helped. I then found a specialist in facial pain, I went to see him, he wasn't much of a help, I then saw a dermotologist, he said it was some skin infection in my ear, gave me drops, they didnt help. I went to a dentist, examined me, said nothign was wrong, sent me on my way. Basically every examination came back negative.
I finally got in to see an excellent ENT who thought to actually do a Cat scan of my head (who'd a thunk?) and the scan showed my right sphenoid sinus was complety blocked. The opening had sealed and the sinus was filled with infected mucus. He said the sphenoid sinus is much further back in the head, and you can be breathing 100% clearly and still have an infected sphenoid. He also said that area of the head has a lot of nerves running through it, and he hypothesized the ear and jaw pain was actually refered pain from the sphenoid sinus irritating nerves in that spot, and there was nothing actually wrong with my ear or jaw.
The only way to solve this was surgery, which I underwent. When I came out of the surgery the jaw pain was completely gone, and the ear sensation cleared up in about 2 weeks, and both have been gone since then (about 3 years now)
It hasn't done anything for my light sensitivity, but I have met 2 people who had thier light sensitivity cured via pallete surgery for an unrelated condition. Whichleads me to believe the nerves that are involved in the eye strain run through the sinus/pallete area, since so many of us suffer from sinus issues as well