# Hyoid bone **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [September 23, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/hyoid-bone/20605 "2025-09-23T22:10:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
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@Calista21269 - Your styloids are very long & with the symptoms you’ve mentioned, it could be more your styloids causing your throat problems than your hyoid bone. The symptoms involving your soft palate, tongue & throat, difficulty swallowing, & speaking would all be more related to nerves which the styloids irritate than the hyoid bone. Those would be the glossopharyngeal, vagus, & possibly trigeminal nerves. Hyoid pain can be caused by the styloids when they are long like yours because the calcified stylohyoid ligaments attached to your styloids somewhat tether the hyoid bone & keep it from moving as it needs to when you cough, laugh, sneeze, swallow, breathe, etc. I think you might get better symptoms relief by having your styloids shortened. Even though the greater horns of your hyoid look a bit long, in some of the images you posted, it looks like there’s a good amount of space between your hyoid & your cervical vertebrae. Today @TML posted a link to a research paper you will be interested in: > [@Clicking in the throat (larynx, hyoid bone, thyroid cartilage) - research paper](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/clicking-in-the-throat-larynx-hyoid-bone-thyroid-cartilage-research-paper/20606): > > Hi all, Came across a journal article that I think may be relevant to post here: Many ES members on the forum have clicking in their throat. In this paper the surgeons surgically removed a combination of these areas from the patients and all experiences resolution of their clicking: It seems that thyroid, hyoid, and styloid /stylohyoid ligament issues commonly occur together. I posted a research paper previously where mo… Unfortunately the only doctor we have on our list for your country is possibly not doing ES surgeries anymore, but there is a doctor in Belgium who has done ES surgeries for several of our members in your country. •Dr. Elisabeth Sauvaget - Hospital St. Joseph, Paris, [https://www.hpsj.fr/specialites/oto-rhino-laryngologie-orl/lequipe/](https://www.hpsj.fr/specialites/oto-rhino-laryngologie-orl/lequipe/) (May no longer be doing ES surgeries) •Dr. Thierry Ladner, Hospital CHIREC, [https://www.doctoranytime.be/d/stomatologue/ladner-thierry?utm\_source=gmb&utm\_medium=organic&utm\_campaign=profile](https://www.doctoranytime.be/d/stomatologue/ladner-thierry?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=profile) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/hyoid-bone/20605)._