# New Here, my story and symptoms **URL:** \ **Category:** Symptoms and Treatments\ **Created:** [August 12, 2024, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/new-here-my-story-and-symptoms/16801 "2024-08-12T03:57:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**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:** [August 12, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/new-here-my-story-and-symptoms/16801/6 "2024-08-12T18:31:22Z")
Hi, & welcome to the site! I agree with @Isaiah_40_31 that your styloids do look a bit longer than average, & are quite angled & pointy at the end , so I think it’s worth looking into an ES diagnosis based on that, a CT would be your next step… Obviously POTS will contribute to dizziness, but ES can also cause that, & given you find it hard to concentrate & have slurred speech it could possibly be that you have Vascular ES- compression of the Internal Jugular Veins can cause increased head pressure and can result in similar symptoms. (I had this, & felt like I was a bit drunk all the time- off-balance, had to really concentrate to follow conversations etc) My vascular symptoms started after I was doing lots of cycling & that head forward position caused a prolapsed disc C5-C6; I already had ES causing nerve pain but not the vascular symptoms. I’ve not been on carbamazepine, & I may well be wrong, but usually the nerve pain meds have to be taken for a while to build up enough to alleviate pain, do you find it helps you enough taking it as & when you need it? Useful to know if it does help you like that, I don’t want to be telling members wrong info! ES commonly affects the Trigeminal Nerve and the Facial Nerve, so it could be one or both of these are being irritated & causing your pain. We have had some discussions about military neck & how it could possibly contribute to ES, as well as exercises to help with this, here’s a link: [“Military neck” (loss of cervical lordosis) relation to Eagle’s - the missing link? - General - Living with Eagle](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/military-neck-loss-of-cervical-lordosis-relation-to-eagles-the-missing-link/10027) Hope that you’re able to get some answers & treatment… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/new-here-my-story-and-symptoms/16801)._