Posted on 01/15/2024 3:44:21 PM PST by RummyChick
Dear Doctors: My wife has been diagnosed with something called Eagle syndrome. Not a lot of medical providers in our area treat this type of illness. Any information you can give about it, including what treatments are available and which specialists we should see, would be helpful.
Dear Reader: Eagle syndrome is somewhat rare, so it's not surprising that finding information, treatment and support have been a challenge. The condition occurs in about 1 in 62,000 people, and it is seen three times more often in women as in men.
Someone living with Eagle syndrome experiences sharp and sudden nerve pain in the neck, throat, tongue, mouth and face. Additional symptoms can include difficulty swallowing, changes to speech, headache, tinnitus, the sensation of something stuck in the throat and pain when turning the head or when chewing.
To understand Eagle syndrome, we should begin with anatomy. There's a needlelike spur of bone in the lower part of the skull known as the styloid process. It is located near that hollow you can feel behind the earlobe, where the lower jaw abuts the throat. A ligament connects the styloid process to a small U-shaped bone in the jaw, known as the hyoid bone. Together, these three structures form a mechanism that facilitates movement of the tongue, voice box and throat, and plays an important role in swallowing and speech.
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Sounds like a rubber necker problem
prickly spike protein where it should not be (should no longer exist)
while I wait to see if anyone here has Eagle Syndrome ( I for real want to know)...here is a lovely acoustic version of Hotel California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArNREe0Fg7o
sounds like a form of trigeminal neuralgia
https://www.earthclinic.com/cures/trigeminal-neuralgia-treatment.html
earth clinic is a good site for experiences with natural healing. drugs are not recommended ever. you should look into high dose vitamin B3 and magnesium (glycinate or malate, NOT oxide)
it might be that some people here that have tinnitus might want to have their Dentist look at the around the head Xray during their next visit..
btw, if you have the version that is causing cranial pressure you can spring a CSF leak. I was watching a tik tok video of a person who has spent several years getting to her diagnosis and did spring a leak.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6028820/#:~:text=Eagle‘s%20syndrome%20is%20a%20condition,pain%2C%20radiating%20into%20the%20ear.
Allison Savage 🟦🟧☮️
@ASavageAllison
Two words: Eagle Syndrome. Or, as my neurologist said, “you have razor blades in your neck.” Had I gone to a chiro, as some doctors suggested, I easily could have died. Those sharp-pointed, brittle & very elongated styloid processes could’ve snapped & sliced my internal jugulars.
Abdullah Thawaba
@DrThawaba
·Left hemispheric stroke, chiropractic visits can be dangerous if you have abnormally long styloid process, the aggressive movement might lead to dissection of the ICA and embolization/ stroke. The name is Eagle syndrome.
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It’s caused by celebrating too early at an Eagles game.................
AJ brown caused a media stir the other day when he deleted all eagles references on social media.
Odd................
He is injured. I dont think he is playing tonight. So if this is the eagles last game he is probably out next year
Free Agent?..............
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