It is quite common for ES symptoms to come & go as you experienced today. Sometimes the symptoms go away for longer than you noticed but sometimes it’s only for a few minutes. Feeling a bit crazy about how one is being affected by symptoms & whether or not the symptoms are real or just in one’s head (which they are literally!) is also part of the struggle many of us w/ ES have had.
This is very common too! Most people who have vascular ES have found there are certain head/neck positions that cause symptoms to get worse quickly. It’s most likely when your neck is bent, like when you do house cleaning, whatever is compressing your IJV is compressing it more than normal & that’s why your symptoms get worse or come back when gone.
This is a less common symptom of vascular compression but we have had other members mention it.
Here’s a post @Bowser made regarding “photophobia”. He had his ES surgery done by Dr. Kamran.
At some point, you need to decide whether you can live with your symptoms or whether you need to face surgery to try to get rid of them. Healing does take time & is uncomfy for the first couple of weeks, but for me & others on this forum, it was soooo worth taking the risk that we went ahead with surgery. For many of us, our surgeries gave us our lives back. It is a decision only you can make, & if you do opt for surgery, face it with hope not fear.