We haven’t been told of anyone else seeing this doctor I don’t think, but he sounds like a good bet as he’s obviously used to working in the skull base area, let us know how you get on!
If he is interested, we have some suggestions of questions to ask doctors in the Newbies Guide Section under Surgery, here’s a link:
ES Information- Treatment: Surgery - Welcome / Newbies Guide to Eagle Syndrome - Living with Eagle
Interesting about the idea of a vaso-vagal response- the vagus nerve can be impinged by the styloids, so maybe it could’ve caused this? Either that or as @Isaiah_40_31 says from vascular ES…