# Successful Clicking Hyoid Syndrome Surgery 3/6/25! **URL:** \ **Category:** Symptoms and Treatments\ **Created:** [April 3, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/successful-clicking-hyoid-syndrome-surgery-3-6-25/18756 "2025-04-03T01:41:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
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Thanks!! Happy to share and help! Do you suspect hyoid issues? I don’t have a detailed or informed answer for you but hopefully it’s still a reassuring one. There are A LOT of muscles attaching to the hyoid and I believe two other ligaments as well. Some of those attach to areas that were reduced and others wouldn’t have been affected except that they had to be cut through to reach the relevant areas. I was a bit concerned, given that I have hEDS and this is the only bone in the body not connected to another bone, so what could go wrong 😉 but Dr. Dewan basically said they reattach everything that isn’t targeted and not to worry about the integrity of your throat after this. All the muscles dissected through were stitched back together, for example (as muscles wouldn’t function without an attachment point, I guess that’s a bit obvious). I don’t know if they cut the muscles off the bone and then reattach them, or if they cut a little ways up the muscle and then stitch muscle to muscle. Also, I don’t know if she took ALL of my greater horns (as they were quite elongated) and/or if they could have put things that were supposed to attach in one place (like on the greater horns) just a centimeter or so to the side so that they could attach to the reduced greater horns … or what. If the latter, then theoretically my “new” hyoid with revised attachments would actually have the attachments where they are supposed to be. Even the op report doesn’t give a lot of specifics, mostly because I think there are so many structures that it would be silly to list everything. So I can tell you I’ve been reassured that everything has been “put back together” (except for the SH ligament, some/all of my greater horns and some of my superior thyroid cartilage – good riddance!). I don’t know if Dr. Dewan would ever reattach the SH ligament if someone didn’t have other issues with ES symptoms and/or calcification along the ligament or at its attachment on the lesser horn. If someone’s greater horns were too large and clicking, but the SH ligament was fine and no ES symptoms, would she reattach them? I don’t know because of course I had both of these problems. Maybe? Maybe not – maybe a graft would take a lot of time and effort when it’s really not a necessary ligament. If you have any specific concerns I’m sure she’d be happy to field them, but basically it was like, don’t worry, it’s all getting put back together except the targeted areas. 🙂 Hope that helps! --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/successful-clicking-hyoid-syndrome-surgery-3-6-25/18756)._