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Hi everyone,
I was having lunch today with a good friend of mine and she was telling me how she's been having this really weird clicking sound in her neck that she notices when she turns her head from side to side.
I asked her more about it and she said as far as she can tell she is the only one who can hear it, it came on suddenly, and she does not have pain or numbness or anything.
She spends a lot of time on the computer and I'm voting for poor posture contributing to a neck issue of some type. She said that lately when she kind of rolls her head around she can make her neck kind of do a popping thing. She said she's also under a lot of stress lately so she's wondering if that's part of it.
Does anyone else here have a clicking neck when you turn your head? If so, did it go away on its own or did you need to see a doctor and or a chiropractor? I want to try to help my friend if we can. Thanks everyone! Michelle
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Hey guys, I'm a 19 year old MALE.
June 30, 2013 - 9:13amIt appears that I've had a similar issue for about 2-3 years now, and I've tried ignoring it here and there and it worked only halfway. Even now I feel like the cracking sound is still there. For my age it seemed to make me nervous at first. Whenever I move my neck back and forth, up and down is okay with slow movement, but with left to right side movements, there's a cracking sound that hits near my Adam's Apple. I don't know which joint is causing that reaction, but I am assuming it's a part of the thyroid that's having a problem. I am a big time computer user and sit on the chair a whole lot of the day, and I know for sure that I achieve little to no exercise here and there, rarely a lot of exercise at once. I am guilty of that, but I do want to figure out why at a young age I'm still experiencing cracks in the neck, especially when I move my neck to the left side. My Adam's Apple is quite large as well.
There's also a cracking sound that is made when I move my neck upward and to the left (northwest directions). If it's bad posture, what steps should I take?
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To the individual with the enlarged Adam's apple,
You may be having a thyroid problem. Please go to your doctor as soon as possible, as an enlarged thyroid could be an indicator of a problem with your thyroid or even thyroid cancer. It is definitely something to have looked at.
All the best and God bless you!
- JesusSaves09
November 21, 2013 - 4:24pmThis Comment
I did take Thyroid tests, and they came back 100% normal. Adolescence would be the only factor taken into account but that's me being my age of 19. I'm pretty sure I didn't find anything wrong with me, nor did the doctors.
November 21, 2013 - 6:03pmThis Comment
It is your computer use. I am on the computer 10 hours a day. My neck is shot. If you wear glasses you should have computer glasses. Also if you have bifocals this will really mess your neck up. Your eyes keep trying to adjust to far away and close and your head it bobbin up and down. If you are young you need to make sure your at eye level not looking down.
November 14, 2013 - 4:50pmI am in the process of trying to get my neck back to where it was. I was fitted for a pair of computer glasses.
Hope this will help someone.
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I sit frequent times throughout the day on the laptop desk, because I am a college student, so it's bound to happen. My neck isn't considerably "shot" but I do have glasses and those are specifically night-time uses daily. That is due to vision being high in power, but that is beside the point. I have weird feelings with moving neck up and down (like a rubbing cartilage feeling) and it scares me. Otherwise, I try my best to keep eye level maintained to laptop setting. All my MRI results came back completely normal, as did my physician's report from every department I visited. I am not sure where this is all coming from; recently I developed neck muscle twitches from the back of neck, but I am not sure if that comes from me now going to the gym frequently per week or not. I have started exercising for a while at gym at school to enhance my neck fat and what not.
November 21, 2013 - 6:01pmThis Comment
It is very very bad to do cracks in the neck
May 7, 2013 - 1:33pmIt may cause intracranial pressure like it caused to me
Please stop crack your neck, it may damage the spinal cord.
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GUYS STOP CRACKING YOUR NECK! I used to do it, and when i found out what it was i immediately stopped! IT IS BAD FOR YOUR NECK. The cracking sound is caused when your muscles tighten around your neck, creating a feeling of tightness, and you twist your neck sharply, stratching your neck muscles and sort of "grinds" your spine, making the noice. It bring temporary comfort, but it loosens your ligaents, forcing your neck muscles to squeeze tighter to hold your neck together, making it uncomfortable and causing you to crack it again. It repeats.
March 20, 2013 - 11:14pmStop it. It's bad for you. Go "cold turkey" for week and your neck would feel better. Might take a while to kick the habit.
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Thank you, I will do my best to break that habit.
May 12, 2013 - 8:25pmThis Comment
Mime does like 20 fast popping noises when I relax or squeeze Where
November 9, 2012 - 11:04pmmy Adams apple would be if I Was a guy. For the longest timei
thoughyt it was my brain. I'm relieved if anything. Seems pretty normal
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Mine also clicks :( not sure why I was always healthy until I did some heavy lifting and my neck muscles seem to have got very angry, now everyday for the past 4 weeks mine has been clicking too..
September 24, 2012 - 5:35pmThis Comment