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Eagle Syndrome: When a Bone Spike in Your Neck Presses on the Vagus
A slender, elongated spike of bone at the base of the skull can jut into the sheath around your carotid artery and irritate the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves. The result — throat pain, a stuck-feeling swallow, dizziness on turning the head — is a genuine structural cause too often waved away as anxiety.
By VagusSkool Team
Jul 22, 2026