# I went to the ENT after my neck CT

**URL:** <https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/i-went-to-the-ent-after-my-neck-ct/18493>\
**Category:** Eagle Syndrome Stories\
**Tags:** stories, treatment\
**Created:** [March 6, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/i-went-to-the-ent-after-my-neck-ct/18493 "2025-03-06T18:08:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mutedsensation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mutedsensation](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/u/Mutedsensation)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/i-went-to-the-ent-after-my-neck-ct/18493/1 "2025-03-06T18:08:10Z")

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Hello all. I went to a specialist in Dallas and he said my lingual tonsils are HUGE. Has anyone heard of this? Im scheduled for surgery in June. Could all of this be related to my lingual tonsil hypertrophy?

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**Author:** ![Isaiah\_40\_31](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.livingwitheagle.org/isaiah_40_31/32/3054_2.png) [@Isaiah\_40\_31](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/u/Isaiah_40_31)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/i-went-to-the-ent-after-my-neck-ct/18493/2 "2025-03-06T20:49:10Z")

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Hi @Mutedsensation - Welcome to our forum! The lingual tonsils have come up on our forum before. Here’s a link to one discussion where hypertrophic lingual tonsils led to an ES diagnosis but there are other mentions of it which you can search by clicking on the magnifying glass search tool in the upper right & typing “lingual tonsils” in the search box.

> [@New ES Patient](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/new-es-patient/8903):
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> Hello, ES family. I have a long story that I want to vent about. Feel free to leave a comment with your words of encouragement, advice, and things to keep in mind as I await my consult with the surgeon. In the early summer of 2019, I became sick with what I thought was a typical upper respiratory infection. I went to my local urgent care center as I woke up on a Sunday morning sick as a dog. I presented with a sore throat, and tenderness in the front of my neck. The physician prescribed an anti…

Dr. Eagle (for whom ES is named) thought that styloid elongation/stylohyoid ligament calcification was caused by the pressure scar tissue from a tonsillectomy placed on the styloids/s-h ligaments which in turn caused the body to “reinforce” the styloids/s-h ligaments by laying down extra calcium in the area. His theory has since been proven wrong in that it’s not only scar tissue that can cause the body to react that way. My point here is that if your lingual tonsils are exceedingly large, it’s possible they’ve been putting pressure on the soft tissues around the styloids which has caused your body to “reinforce” the styloids thus creating the symptoms of ES.

Is your June surgery only for a tonsillectomy or for both a styloidectomy & tonsillectomy?