# 4 months after surgery bilateral styloidrectomy **URL:** https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/4-months-after-surgery-bilateral-styloidrectomy/18308 **Category:** General **Created:** [February 11, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/4-months-after-surgery-bilateral-styloidrectomy/18308 "2025-02-11T21:29:27Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![Isaiah\_40\_31](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.livingwitheagle.org/isaiah_40_31/32/3054_2.png) [@Isaiah\_40\_31](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/u/Isaiah_40_31) #### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/4-months-after-surgery-bilateral-styloidrectomy/18308/4 "2025-02-12T03:50:46Z")
I’m glad you’re massaging your incision area. That’s good & will be helpful in the long run. I’m expect PT prior to your ES surgery didn’t help because your symptoms were being treated rather than the cause (elongated styloids) & the cause would just recreate the symptoms after your PT sessions. I’m glad you’ve been in touch w/ Dr. Dewan’s ofc. There is no one closer to you. Dr. Cognetti in Philadelphia is the next closest doctor I know of who does HBS surgeries otherwise there’s a doctor in Salt Lake City and one in Los Angeles. We have two members who had HBS surgeries toward the end of last year - @a_catindisguise w/ Dr. Dewan & @F_t w/ a doctor in Australia. Both have said the recovery has been on the slow side, but both are feeling a tremendous amount better. Dr. Hackman’s opinion about surgery for HBS may be based on patients who didn’t see experienced hyoid bone surgeons just like we have members who had poor outcomes from ES surgery when they saw surgeons who weren’t experienced or were too conservative & didn’t remove enough of the styloid(s). Here are a couple of links to discussion threads for you to read: > [@Thought it was time to post my story…](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/thought-it-was-time-to-post-my-story/16161/11): > > Hello there! I could have written your story, almost word for word! I have had a clicking throat for 8 months now and EVERY time i go to a doctor about it, i am met with a blank face. Feel free to go read through my comments on here, but basically i think we are suffering the same condition. I have tried: medications for reflux, medications for anxiety, muscle relaxants, valium (that was a fun one), physiotherapy, neck stretches, and most recently injections into my neck. I was also hospitalise… > [@Finally diagnosed with clicking larynx syndrome!](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/finally-diagnosed-with-clicking-larynx-syndrome/16824): > > GUYS!!! I just returned from my appointment with Dr Karuna Dewan a few hours ago and I cannot begin to describe the happiness and relief I feel right now!! First off, her office staff is superb. Everyone is SO kind. I got walked back to an exam room and had to wait a bit while she looked at my imaging. One of her assistants came in the room and asked me how I found her because I came from so far away. I told him about this lovely forum!! Then he told me my symptoms match clicking larynx to a T!… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/4-months-after-surgery-bilateral-styloidrectomy/18308)._