Is having difficulty moving the tongue (and therefore speaking as well), for example trying to put the tip of the tongue to the palate and then it causes a pinching sensation towards the thyroid cartilage and cricoid cartilage towards the jugular notch as well (red circle in the image) with a sensation of tangled cables or as here in the photo of gel beads that you move the sensation of sliding, which pull from the base of the tongue to there and it’s as if it wants to suffocate you for a few seconds, part of one of the symptoms of eagles or of hyoid bone/thyroid cartilage syndrome?
My tongue also feels numb, like I can’t feel it properly
When I swallow my saliva or anything else, I also hear a sound of saliva being sucked in, as if passing through a narrow space, and I feel that it’s constricted in that area.
Movement of the tongue can be affected by the hyoid bone, & in turn movement of the hyoid bone can be affected by calcification of the stylohyoid ligaments/styloid process elongation. It’s very hard to know whether your tongue symptoms & the pulling you feel in your neck are because of hyoid bone syndrome or thyroid cartilage (which is very close to the hyoid) or because of the stylohyoid ligaments which may be tethering the hyoid because they are calcified. When the hyoid can’t move properly, it can affect swallowing, tongue movement, breathing & speaking among other things.
Tongue numbness would be the result of the hypoglossal &/or glossopharyngeal nerve being irritated or compressed by elongated styloids &/or calcified stylohyoid ligaments.
Here is a good article I found about the hyoid bone. I didn’t read the whole thing, but it might help answer some of your questions. It does mention ES:
