Living with eagle day by day...symptoms

@Roeagle - You noted that you’ve been diagnosed w/ ES. Did you have a CT scan that showed elongated styloids?

You do have symptoms that we see w/ ES & your dizziness & tunnel, foggy & blurry vision could suggest either internal carotid artery compression/irritation or internal jugular vein compression. The pain in your abdomen could be coming from irritation to your vagus nerve by your styloids/calcified stylohyoid ligaments, & your should pain could be from your spinal accessory nerve.

It makes sense that you feel ok in the mornings after a rest but get worse as the day progresses because you’re active & moving your head & neck all day which brings the elongated styloids into intermittent or continuous contact w/ nerves which may not have been bothered while you slept. Those nerves & possibly vascular tissues get irritated by the styloids during the day & increase your symptoms.

We have a number of members who’ve had consults w/ Dr. Osborne. He is a good diagnostician, but he charges a very high fee for doing ES surgery. I don’t know if he would consider reducing his fee for someone traveling as far as you would need to for surgery, but for people in the US it’s $35,000 USD for one styloidectomy & $51,000 USD for both sides. He does them 2 days apart rather than all at once. An initial consult with him is about $250 USD, & he will do a telehealth initial consult.

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