# New here and looking for advice **URL:** \ **Category:** New User Help\ **Tags:** stories, symptoms\ **Created:** [December 21, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/new-here-and-looking-for-advice/21656 "2025-12-21T02:57:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![Jules](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.livingwitheagle.org/jules/32/404_2.png) [@Jules](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/u/Jules)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/new-here-and-looking-for-advice/21656/9 "2025-12-24T14:33:38Z")
We’re here and happy to help out all we can, although obviously it’s not like having someone there to help you & give you a hug, sending a virtual one! 🤗 Looking at the new images you’ve posted, your hyoid processes do look very long, so could well be causing some symptoms too, & just to add something else into the mix, your thyroid cartilage looks pretty calcified too! If you have time to look at this discussion by @mjzago , the doctor has confirmed the thyroid cartilage is calcified and could be an issue, and yours looks just as calcified, if not more so… [Doctor said its not eagle, but can you check again - General - Living with Eagle](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/doctor-said-its-not-eagle-but-can-you-check-again/20550) And also, your mastoid process looks quite close to the C1 process, I don’t know if that’s of any significance, but usually there’s a bigger gap between the two?! It probably seems quite overwhelming, but it’s worth getting doctors’ opinions on all of it before deciding about surgery, and it might be a journey rather than a one & done… One positive though, it your neck does look more curved on these images & a less like military neck. I hope that you’re able to enjoy some of the celebrations over Christmas 🤗 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/new-here-and-looking-for-advice/21656)._