New member looking for guidance

@Deebo2585 - Welcome to our forum! We have had other members w/ arm/leg pain that resolved after a styloidectomy. The leg pain in particular seems like a stretch to be caused by something in the neck, yet that pain did resolve for some members. We had one member I recall one member in particular who had the problem w/ her arm/hand turning blue, & she ended up having external carotid artery compression which resolved w/ styloid removal. She may have also had TOS (Thoracic Outlet Syndrome) & had surgery for that later on. That involves the first rib causing compression which affects blood flow into/out of the arm.

Before reading your imaging results, I was going to guess you have some carotid compression/irritation based on your neck pain & bouts of partial vision loss. The addition of IJV compression isn’t surprising.

Based on the findings in your CT scan & w/ the symptoms you have I can fairly confidently say you have vascular ES, but it’s best to hear that from a doctor. If that ends up being your diagnosis, you’ll want to see one of the vES specialists we have on our Doctors List, not a doctor who just does non vES surgeries.

Here’s a post from the gal I remember who had symptoms similar to yours. She also posted a discussion about how things went for her during her recovery.

Please let us know what your CTA-V shows.

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