Yes they said they automatically put me on the cancellation list.
I did have (yet another) question. I was wondering if Eagle’s syndrome often or sometimes results in high sedimentation rate and/or high c reactive protein? I have infections, but earlier in my illness he infections didn’t seem to make those 2 markers high.
It’s my personal opinion that ES causes compromises in our bodies that can weaken our immune systems & allow other “bugs” more access than when we’re perfectly healthy. As with any problem that causes constant pain or other debilitating symptoms where we’re constantly fatigued mentally, emotionally, & physically, our immunity seems to decrease. Thus, it could be speculated that your new blood test results reflect some break down that ES is related to directly or indirectly.
Ok thanks!
I think (personal opinion!) that the styloids irritating nerves, blood vessels etc & the pain from that causes inflammation, several members have been diagnosed with or had symptoms of autoimmune conditions as well as ES & I think it’s all got to be linked…
Yes that’s the similar theory about why craniocervical instability causes mcas. I just didn’t see the link as clearly confirmed between eagle’s syndrome and mcas. It’d be nice if fixing it magically made my mcas go away though.
One last question floating around in my head. Does traction ever help Eagle’s syndrome? I ask because when I had invasive traction done my vision improved like 40%. It felt,like circulation was restored. So I’m wondering if that would serve as a partial preview of what might happen if my styloids were clipped
We’ve had several members who’ve commented that traction helped relieve symptoms. If you click on the magnifying glass icon above & type in traction a list of threads will come up on this topic. Here’s a link to one of them:
Traction can be helpful because it opens up the cervical vertebrae thus reducing pressure on the discs & nerves. It can also help to open blood vessels that are compressed. Having your styloid removed can definitely take pressure off of nerves & vascular tissues, but the results won’t necessarily feel like they do w/ traction because you won’t get the additional benefit of the cervical spine decompression. I hope this helps.
Thanks! You’ve been so helpful again!
I would be very wary of this though; I had traction & manipulation done following a whiplash injury & my neck was agony afterwards…you would want to make sure that if you saw someone that they were experienced & well aware of ES…
Hello, thinking of you, viola-player. (right?) Recently I had a spell of blurry vision. I’m recovering from my surgery around 5 weeks ago. Apparently a related condition is (non idiopathic) intracranial hypertension. I’m just wondering if maybe this, if caused by venous Eagles, might affect vision.
How are you? August, when you see Cognetti, is next month, coming soon.
Hey violin! What you got a styloidectomy? Yeah I have a little bit of intracranial hypertension. Dr Henderson said Eagle’s is known to cause that. I’m seeing Cognetti virtually august 9th. I’ve been doing badly for a couple weeks since trying to test cranberry as a food. I’m baffled as to why I still haven’t seemed to fully recover given I smashed the cranberry in water and swished a drop around my mouth snd spit it out several weeks ago. My mal de debarquement has gotten much worse. I’m wondering if it’s just super low blood pressure or relapsing from my infections or both or something else.
Have any of your issues gotten better since surgery? They did more blood work on my and now are going to trying to work on my mitochondria. I’m also supposed to get a small fiber nerve biopsy done in a week. They’d do one before but messed it up.