I’m sorry that you’re feeling so bad, it must be really difficult trying to study when you’re feeling like this.
If you’ve not read it already, hopefully the common symptoms might help you, here’s a link:
ES Information: Common Symptoms And Possible Explanations For Them - Welcome / Newbies Guide to Eagle Syndrome - Living with Eagle
The ear fullness and dizziness can be caused by IJV compression; other symptoms of this can be head and ear pressure, off-balance feeling, pulsatile tinnitus, weird sucking or pulling sensations inside you head, I don’t know if any of those ring a bell? Shoulder pain can also be caused by an irritated spinal accessory nerve, & vagus nerve irritation can cause increased anxiety too.
It is hard to differentiate ES symptoms from other neck symptoms, so we can’t say for sure if the dizziness is related to it (I think the vestibulocochlear nerve can also sometimes be irritated by the styloids which can cause dizziness as well as vascular ES), unfortunately sometimes the only way is to have surgery & see what improves! But if you’re able to get a CT with contrast then that might show if there is IJV compression, or ICA compression as that can also cause dizziness, fainting and eye pain… I think it’s certainly worth looking into if you are able to get one, & take it from there depending on what it shows? Some of the US surgeons do video consults , as does Dr Agayhev in Turkey…
But it’s also worth working on your posture & looking at some exercises for improving your neck in the mean time- there have been discussions here about how losing the natural curve in your neck can make ES symptoms worse. There are links to exercises in this discussion which might help:
List of my favourite resources on YouTube to learn anatomy - General - Living with Eagle
One of our members recently mentioned about improving symptoms with improving the neck curve but I can’t remember who or find the discussion, sorry!
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