Clicking in adams apple when swallowing

time, antibiotics find the problem no matter where they are in your body ,salt water,doent sing till its all the way healed

you will be alright clindamycin 300 mg 2 a day it will go away after a while

I should have updated my own post. I ended up flying to UT and met a great ENT doctor there who accurately diagnosed with a unique case of hyoid bone syndrome. I had the superior cornu of my thyroid cartilage removed by him. Problem solved. The clicking was immediately gone and has not returned in about 6 months.

Based on my research, this guy is the main expert in the country on this unique topic. He is humble, patient, polite, a gentlemen. Dr. Kibler.

Somewhere in here is my original post. I've had the clicking swallowing thing for about 3 years, saw an ENT, had the barium swallow, etc. Recently a doctor confirmed what I've read on some blogs that it is the combination of the hardening of the thyroid cartilage and the hyoid bone, a product of getting older. I also had two cervical spine fusions with removal of osteophytes, but I don't think that is related. Thanks for the info on the cornu / thyroid cartilage. Funny that more doctors are not familiar with this issue.

This person is talking about an audible ABNORMAL sound when they swallow, also with each swallow it feels like someone is flicking you in the throat 10,000 times a day. I am a nurse and massage therapist who suffered from this for a year until I went to massage school and figured it out. This happens frequently to wrestlers who have been choked out, thats what my son playing around did to me and it happenned right after that. Your hyoid bone is deviated to the left or right. If you hold it one way or the other a millimeter or two- it should alleviate the problem. OK so you cant walk around holding your throat- but this proves that it is the ligaments, and muscles holding it out of place. Find a good theraputic massage therapist that can massage the anatomy behind the ears, neck, thraot, scalenes, etc. If this doesnt work google Eagles syndrome. Also stretch your head.neck side to side, left ear to left shoulder, look left, circle around and repeat right. If this doesnt work visit a Chiropractor, if not then go see an EENT ears, eyes nose throat doctor- he will most likely tell you it all in your head tho- like mine did- after spending $400- i massaged it out myself. 

 

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I recently noticed popping near my Adams apple when I was swallowing food while propped up in bed, and not sitting up straight.
When I sat up straight (putting another pillow behind me to help me sit up straight), the popping in throat soon ended.
The only times I have experienced this is when I was not sitting up straight while swallowing food.

I wonder if sleeping in my neck incorrectly could cause this clicking. I have swollen glands and am wondering if this clicking when I swollow is attributed to that

According to Wikipedia, it is caused by showing called dysphagia. I was diagnosed with this far before I even asked about the clicking.

So did the say it was life treatining

You ALL need to see the symptoms of Eagles Syndrome and rule it out. I am a 43 year old nurse . 6 mos ago I had a sudden onset of clicking when I swallowed (otherwise perfect health), but it didnt always click if I turned my head a certain way. I waited for it to subside on its own. I googled-found many people plagued with same thing-very much misdagnosed. Hyoid bone involvment was what I finally found may be a cause-ussually from traume-wrestlers usually get this. The treatment is somewhat dangerous surgery-shaving down the Hyoid bone and surrounding ligamenture. I finally went to an ENT-Ears nose throat Dr-(You must consult a specialist-regular Drs dont know enough) I had a CT scan with dye and without-he found calcification on one side of my neck-the Styloid ligament and Styloid process (prominence that sticks out) may be problem. These structures pull the Larxny up when swallowing. He said I might have Eagles syndrom-I googled it and found many helpful sites. Good Luck...See an ENT and fro Gods sake-DONT SMOKE!!!!T Conservative treatment may include stretching exercises, Chiropractic, Steroid injection, NSAID non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (like kicked up Motrin).
Update: I am a nurse & have since become a massage therapist & I can say without a doubt- you probably need a good massage from a deep tissue neuromuscular therapist (not a froo-froo massage) all the ligature and surrounding soft tissue is pulling the floating (strangle) bone in the neck/throat to one side-displacing it. If you push the adams apple to one side-it improves. It feels like someone is flicking you with every saliva swallow, and it is externally audible and feels unconfortable and is annoying. This is NOT the click that medical people normally hear when placing a stethesscope in the throat to listen for the normal swallow reflex. This is ABnormal. Youe need massage under chin, up near ear, neck, scalenes, maybe upper back and trapd too, and SCM. Hope this helps since so many people cant find answers. Julie 

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Hi I'm just going to add something here in case people are still reading this. I too had a clicking on my throat when I swallowed and went to a specialist who put a camera up my nose and down my throat but found nothing. Then my 12 year old daughter told me to ( I'll try to explain this) you know when you try to get phlegm out of your throat by putting your tongue to the back of your throat and blowing so it makes that coughing type noise. Well I did it and a couple of tonsil stones came up from really far down and the clicking stopped. Every time I got it again I would do this and bring up a tonsil stone and it would cure it until I stopped getting the clicking. I'm only here now though because my clicking has come back since sanding and cutting my walnut worktops and mdf units but this trick doesn't work for me now. I'm just saying it's worth trying this, it might just work for some of you.

Just pop your neck rotate 360 degrees same happened to me someone said It had something to do with your neck so I did a neck roll and like that back to normal ..don't get surgery way too extreme

I have this clicking problem. I have neck muscle issues as I was rear ended 4 times. Can u tell me about the series of exercises using pilates that will both strentghen the weak muscles and lengthen the short tight muscles that you mentioned?

Hi,

Did you find out what was causing this?

It happens to me but it is on my whole Adam's apple but it pops in a similar way to popping your fingers then my my nech turns red. I know it isn't the same thing as what he said but I found this when I was trying to find what is happening with me. It also gets hard to swallow.