Your symptoms are very typical of IJV compression. Two things that have been very helpful for our members who have IJV compression are to sleep with head elevation at night & get an Rx for Plavix or Brillinta both of which are blood thinners. Dr. Hepworth who routinely does IJV decompression surgeries Rxes one or the other of these blood thinners to his VOO (vascular outflow obstruction which is what you have) patients to take while they await their surgery dates. Dr. Lo, &/or Costantino, whom you may end up with to do the styloidectomy part of your surgery, may also Rx a blood thinner, though I don’t recall for sure. Please ask Dr. Lo if he’d give you a blood thinner Rx when you see him. That more than anything has been helpful for our members who have VOO.
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