Crunching / grinding of cartilidge or possible lump sensation when swallowing

I feel the exact same way as you do!!!!!

I had this, it was so annoying and uncomfortable, crunching clicking adam's apple and throat closed with sticky god knows what.. Nothing would cure it. Eventually I tried giving up dairy and boom, cured. Took a few weeks. I'm back on dairy now just have to take it easy on milk.

Hello, can you please tell me if you have found any diagnosis? I have been dealing with this for 5years now & I can't stand it! I've had every test done imaginable. Sometimes I too cannot go to work or out with friends bc it hurts so badly. Please let me know if you have found out anything. Thank you!!

I'm also wondering if anyone has found any reliefanywhere to this?

I have done a multitude of tests and was diagnosed with anxiety and Globus but my symptoms are getting worse (choking feeling, clicking, discomfort)

I'm almost sure something is psychically wrong with my neck area.

Please if anyone can shed some light don't hesitate to answer..

It isnt anxiety they tell u that to not deal with you anymore. Its real and horrible I have it u just learn to live with it and know it won't kill you. Ibprofin helps

While 'they' definitely tell you it's anxiety to not have to deal with you anymore and that it is real and awful and you can adapt and live with it, I do not believe there is no treatment.

Many things in medicine are still "idiopathic", "rare" or just generally misunderstood / unknown in the literature. We will never know everything. Look back at medicine 100 years ago. They likely felt as omniscient as we do now.

My theory is that it is related to a racial/genetic susceptibility to cricoid dislocation. I believe caucasians/europeans have less rigid cricothyroid structures and are prone to this madness without the advent of a severe traumatic injury (motor vehicle accident, clothesline while skiing). Likely for the same reason that African males are more prone to wonky mutated red blood cells (whatever that may be, I don't actually know).

I anticipate that there will be development of a standard surgical response to the advent of symptoms related to this disorder of sorts.

In my case, my father and I share the majority of your stories and symptoms without resolution. I recently remembered a mild trauma to my larynx due to horseplay/wrestling as a teen. I thought nothing of it. It lead to a decade of anxiety and enigmatic strangities, visits to the hospital visits to be told I was perfectly fine. I eventually just accepted the anxiety accompanying the discomfort, saying to myself "well it's not particularly painful, so if I die from it, all the better."

I took the injury and complaints of very mild subcutaneous emphysema (i.e. air bubbles travelling to abdomen, groin, up the back of my neck to my scalp, to spine between shoulderblades, occipital joint, everywhere really but subtle and temporary) to an old, wise, English doctor recently.

I told him about the injury in detail (wrote it down), explained that xrays have always come up clear, but I anticipated damage and residual leakage. Upon inspecting my larynx and cricoid, he actually seemed familiar with the issue! After a decade of dismissive (and typically non-caucasian or young Canadian) doctors, I was ordered a CT scan to investigate the issue.

That's where I'm at now. If I remember I will post a follow-up. My biggest fear is a disinterested radiologist looking for grand, obvious problems or worse, looking specifically to find nothing at all.

Hi everyone

I have had these symptoms for several years
but it often goes away . It gets worse after feeling sad , drinking alcohol and smoking. . .
You need to stop drinking for a while and never drink when you are depressed , and try to quit smoking ... not very serious problem
good luck

i have alot of those symptoms but i also have trouble breathing at times and it is scary i dont know what to do i will check another doctor

Like two others here, my issue started after problems with sinus issues. I got really sick back in February and it lasted for a month before I recovered. Started with a sore throat which later went away, then mostly was completely blocked breathing and intense post-nasal drip, but also ear blockage at first with popping and ringing. I don't think it was an actual sinus infection because it did go away without antibiotics, although the ear troubles persist. However, a couple weeks later I got sick with something else, again starting with a sore throat, this time accompanied by a rather bad hacking cough. After about a week and a half, I felt like my throat was healed and my coughing bouts stopped. Then three days later, suddenly throat pain began as if my sickness was starting anew.

At first I thought it was just a plain sore throat, but then a couple days later, I felt like something was choking me. Then I accidentally brushed over the center of my neck and it hurt to touch. In bed that night, it felt like lying down was making me choke more. From this point on I had constant sore throat, and the CLICKING when swallowing, but not while eating. I also was losing my voice, coughing after talking and coughing after eating. I would also get the choking feeling again every so often, which would last for a few hours. One day it lasted 11 hours! But I noticed that with that choking, I'd feel like I needed to burp and would keep forcing a burp, until it alleviated the strangled feeling.

I originally thought it had to do with silent reflux because the symptoms matched, and I also read that we're prone to reflux after having sinus problems because the throat cavity's already irritated, so it's susceptible. I took Prilosec OTC till I emptied the box, cut out caffeinated drinks and only drank water, and avoided possible trigger foods. However, I was not noticing a difference during all these changes. The choking feeling would still come every few days and I was still having throat pain. So I determined that reflux was not the cause of my problem. Sure enough, nothing changed for the worse after I took myself off the Prilosec (I heard most people's reflux symptoms get worse after taking themselves off reflux meds so again that points to reflux not being the problem) and also not any worse when I started reintroducing foods and drinks again.

Then I started thinking it was allergies, and lo and behold I did feel an immense difference after taking Claritin for a couple days! But only a couple days. I took it for ten full days and it seemed to be just a lucky happenstance because my throat didn't feel any different in the days following that.

Right now it's exactly a month since I've started having my symptoms. I no longer have the constant sore throat, or if I do I've just gotten used to it. I'm no longer coughing. My throat often will feel tight but not so bad as a strangled feeling, and it doesn't hurt to touch my neck.

I am still having the loud popping/clicking noise when I swallow. To me it sounds like a loud THUNK and I imagine a rock falling down my throat. I've trained myself not to swallow when I'm not drinking or eating, but when I feel I must do it, I consciously force my throat muscles to really open up to swallow, and then I usually won't hear the click. But that way feels unnatural--the times I do swallow with the popping, it feels like the "right" way to swallow, like I have been all my life up till this problem started.

Now, I said I don't have a constant sore throat, but I do still sometimes get flares of pain in my throat, and they're usually focused more to one side. The side always alternates. Often the ear of that side will also start hurting afterwards. Sometimes if I move just a little, I'll hear my throat POP and then the pain goes away. It really is just the slightest of movements, not even a full tilt of the head--even smiling has caused the pop! I am writing right now because I heard the pop first on the right side of my neck, and then a few moments later, the left side of my neck, and I was just sitting here looking ahead at my computer, barely moving. Where it pops seems to be close to the jawline. It reminds me of someone forcing a hard piece of plastic to bend inwards, both the sensation and the sound.

Thank you so much for this after months of feeling like I was dying I slowly started to realize that the problem seemed to be caused by favoring one side of my facial muscles for swallowing, once I started consciously using the other side I noticed my symptoms would let up. They don't completely go away yet but I believe if I keep consciously using the other side they will go away eventually.

So what helped me is tying a excersise band around my neck and it tightens the areas and ligaments in the area to pop back in with the band...ots better than surgery or you can try neck excersises or prolotherapy but again the excersise band is cheaper and just wear it for the rest of your life .not to tight but def medium. DO NOT GET READJUSTMENTS BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THE POPPING WORSE

Did you ever get the ct scan? If so any diagnosis?

are you still experiencing this?

Vee, i am going through something similar.
Are you still experiencing this?

My name is khamare Williams I have the same problem I'm 24 years old an i have had this for over 4 years is there any other way to fix it that dose not involve surgery