While biting into soft food today, my jaw made a crunchy noise and a pain hit me deep in my ear, similar to but far more intense than that of a Q-tip poking too deep. It simultaneously felt as though my jaw bone was pushing into my ear drum, actually strecthing the skin inside my eardrum as it did so. It continued to push in my eardrum any time I would attempt to close it. This slowly went away over about a fifteen minute period.