So I my 27 year old boyfriend thinks he has a pinched nerve in his back that started Sunday and he is still complaining with pain and it is Wednesday. He says that he also cannot hear out of his left ear and it started around the same time. Tuesday night he woke up.with a sharp pain that ran from around the pinched nerve up to his head and he said it felt like his left ear popped. He said he could hear out of the ear when he was in pain, but when he woke up the next day he couldn t hear out of it again. Could a pinched nerve cause this or is there something else possibly going on? I keep begging him to go to the doctor, but he says it will heal on its own.