# New user, any opinions on CT images and best attempt at self-diagnosis? **URL:** \ **Category:** Eagle Syndrome Stories\ **Tags:** symptoms, internal-jugular-vei\ **Created:** [January 5, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/new-user-any-opinions-on-ct-images-and-best-attempt-at-self-diagnosis/12694 "2023-01-05T21:14:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![vdm](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.livingwitheagle.org/vdm/32/4794_2.png) [@vdm](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/u/vdm)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/new-user-any-opinions-on-ct-images-and-best-attempt-at-self-diagnosis/12694/4 "2023-01-05T22:46:50Z")
> [@Mclean](#): > > I’ve been trying to get a positional CTA or CT with contrast since 2014, or even traditional angiograms or trans-cranial dopplers, but my doctors and neurologists would only prescribe fixed position CT and MRI scans. Any ideas on how to go about this? Most of my CTAs were taken at ER. Including the positional one. When I went to ER that time, I told the ER doc that I felt like passing out when I rotate my neck, and please can I get a CTA in that position. A bit forth and back and they did it. Whooshing sound is said to often be pulsation in the IJVs, which may be true may be not. Mine has been gone after the bilateral styloidectomy. I had one IJV completely compressed since 2020 and the other compressed maybe 50-75%. Tight shoulder muscles might be a sign of weak rotator cuff muscles, stiff biceps/triceps and especially deltoids. Also weak back muscles. If you have a chance, get a professional massage on arms and shoulders (but not on the neck) and see if it helps. You can check some muscle diagrams in some of my self-physiotherapy-advocating posts . Long story short, weak postural muscles (long decades at the computer leaning forward, and one arm extended further than the other to hold the mouse?) force “power” muscles into spasms in order to hold the body in shape and prevent from collapsing into a pile. Neck is full of strong muscles, and some of them may literally pull the head back too much. > [@Question for those with military/straight neck (loss of cervical lordosis)](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/question-for-those-with-military-straight-neck-loss-of-cervical-lordosis/10539): > > Hi, Just a question/observation from my side: do you also get some relief from symptoms, esp. jugular vein compression symptoms, while lying on your back and holding your hands under neck/just above the neck, like in this picture? UPDATE: that’s a serious question, no joke, despite the picture (couldn’t find a better one quickly to fully explain what I meant). > [@So why calcifications sometimes happens](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/so-why-calcifications-sometimes-happens/10597): > > Original report on [nature.com](http://nature.com) website: [Prominent exostosis projecting from the occipital squama more substantial and prevalent in young adult than older age groups | Scientific Reports](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21625-1) > [@My toolkit to self-release tight muscles](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/my-toolkit-to-self-release-tight-muscles/10592): > > Those who know about my situation, most likely have heard that I do a lot of self-massage/stretches (a few hours a day at least). Good news is that I finally managed to regain good amount of my neck and spine’s mobility about four-five months since starting this. It’s fantastic to wake up in the morning and feel that neck isn’t painfully, totally stiff. It’s a brilliant feeling when body now starts attempting to relax and do some “muscle twitches” before falling asleep… Here in the pic is my “t… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/new-user-any-opinions-on-ct-images-and-best-attempt-at-self-diagnosis/12694)._