Hi & welcome!
If you’ve not seen the section in the Newbies Guide about common symptoms & possible explanations it’s worth a read, so here’s a link:
ES Information: Common Symptoms And Possible Explanations For Them - Welcome / Newbies Guide to Eagle Syndrome - Living with Eagle
I would’ve suggested looking into TOS given your arm symptoms, but that’s obviously been ruled out. The spinal accessory nerve is often affected with ES so that could be causing arm weakness & shoulder pain. Ear fullness & dizziness are often vascular symptoms, so it could be that your Internal Jugular veins are being compressed, as well as brain fog and fatigue. Choking sensations are the more common ES symptoms. Anxiety and GI issues can be from the vagus nerve being irritated, as well as sometimes breathing issues. The bobble head feeling is something which members who also have CCI describe, although it sounds as if you’ve had lots of imaging done on your neck, have they looked at instability at all?
So it sounds like it’s worth looking into ES, an MRI is not the best scan to show the styloids, they can sometimes be seen on x-rays, but the best is a CT, so if you’re able to get one done that would be good. Given that you possibly have vascular symptoms a CT with contrast would be even better, covering from the base of your skull to the hyoid bone.
Dr Peter Costantino would be a good doctor to see if the CT does show something :
4 Westchester Park Dr, 4th floor, White Plains, (914) 517-8056
http://www.nyhni.org/find-a-physician/Peter-D-Costantino-MD,FACS
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