Eagle syndrome recently diagnosed

Certainly your styloids look long, the left side scarily so! and as @Isaiah_40_31 said there’s a piece of stylo-hyoid ligament calcified on the right side too. Your hyoid bone processes look quite long as well, so that’s something to ask about also. They look very close to the blood vessels, so could be causing issues… It does look as if there’s a reasonable gap between the styloids & C1 process which is where there’s usually IJV compression, but I don’t feel that the images are clear enough to comment on any other compression of them…We have had members who have had IJV compression by other blood vessels, nerves or muscles. Given that it might be an idea to try to get an appointment with the other doctors @Isaiah_40_31 mentions as they would evaluate the compression for you, I don’t know much about Dr Nalwa so can’t say if that’s the right doctor for you…
I’d also add in again that on most of your images your neck looks pretty straight, there should be a natural curve; it’s called military neck & is something we’re seeing alot on here, it does seem to be a link with ES, which affects what we don’t know, but some members have found symptoms improve if they do exercises to correct it. @vdm posted some good info in this discussion:
List of my favourite resources on YouTube to learn anatomy - General - Living with Eagle
If you’ve not had a chance to look at that yet, I’d encourage you to look into it :+1:

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