Strange "crackling" sounds/sensation at the base o

have you seen a dentist about the jaw and teeth? It sounds like you may have a TMJ issue.

To my own problems I thought it was coming from base of my head & after breaking my clavicle to it healing to training martial arts to going to chiropractors multiple who cleanly have no idea what they're doing I promise they just try and manipulate you they're right. You need to get referred to a sports & medicine doctor/Physical therapists. I promise they will figure it out in seconds and all long I had a rotator cuff tear and it's the tissue making my crackling sounds & I can go slow put my arm up feel joints and cartilage snapping popping in my upper left arm which is causing shoulder blade pain area. Take some inflammatory pills, keep vitamins up, and try to buy a orthotic rotator bands and you can look up exercises on YouTube Internet please do it daily I stress it don't have to be an athlete to tear one of the three rotator tendons, can just wash dishes, paint walls, factory jobs, and ice after for 15 minutes the whole shoulder. Once you start working it back it will let up off the cartilage, bursitis, and reposition the shoulder back into its exact place including the shoulder blade. Also walk into a wall corner arms out 90degress out each side of wall one foot in and try to grab your shoulder blades down for 30 second hold, 3 times each. Got to reposition, strengthen the rotator cuffs, rhomboids, & traps with proper posture & ice, with inflammatory medicine, and

X-rays due no justice, need MRI also

Yes I had same problem. We took xray everything it was normal .let me tell you .its nothing wrong in your head .either you have anxiety .stress or lake of sleep ..most is anxiety consult your doctor for that

Well its not always stress,anxiety related. What about head trauma etc

Hi there: I have the same exact sound and gravel is the best description. It's in the middle, back of my head and it feels as if there's someone pushing on it hard with a fist. Not necessarily extremely painful....only a hard pressure that I've become used to. It was triggered by an accidental blow to the head in the same spot as the noise.
Have you learned of any remedy? Thanks in advance..

I've been having it for 3 years now. I thought initially it was because I wasn't stretching enough so I started stretching more and it continued; thought it was my alcohol consumption so I've limited myself to only 2 glasses of wine/wk and it's still continuing. It's actually more frequent and now it sounds like 2 bags of pop rocks! LOL It just keeps growing. I've asked a couple of physicians and as with everyone else I've gotten no answers not even a probability.

I have the same thing. My neck was fine until I had it adjusted this last time. Now I have the crackling sound every time I turn my head to the left. Frustrating! My chiro said maybe I slept on it wrong, but it was fine before. What is causing this annoying sound?

The same thing has been happening to me But mine is causing me pain. I also have pain in my neck and shoulders, I went to physical therapy but they could only help with my neck and shoulders. It's a horrible crackling noise when I move my head. ( I also tried acupuncture but it only helped with neck and shoulders)

I too have crackling and squishing sounds in my skull, tinnitus for over 40 years and recently
psoriasis on the scalp, diagnosed with possible bacterial infection by one doctor and psoriasis
on skull by another, noise on scalp seems only to happen when I lay down or turn head right
and left to see if its still there. Can not do MRI as I am too claustrophobic, I was diagnosed with
degenerative disc disease many years ago after a car accident where my neck was injured from
going back and forth after being rear ended. I just wish they really knew what the actual cause or
problem was and could fix it, just plugging along and trying to ignore it. Glad to know I am not alone.

They tell me that cracking is normal I dove into a pool the shallow side, following my friend thinking it was the deep side since I did not know that there was such a thing as diving into 3 feet of water...just cracked c 3 and 4 but in my 40s noticed the cracking a lot. They all say is normal. My mom had arthritis osteo and as she got older heard those sounds too so don't think it means much the cracking part. We all have had accidents and you may develop osteoarthritis at site of injury. They tell me to stay lubricated and drink plenty of water.

I do when I have migraines. That's also when I most often feel the bubbling, cracking sound everyone is talking about, along with tense pain in my neck and jaw. Migraines can present many ways. Perhaps you're dealing with an ongoing migraine? Only a guess, of course.

Chiari is not as rare as most ppl think, and is not not only hereditary. I also have had decompression for my CM, it has been 23 yes ago. And just this past year have been having recourring headaches and this new crackling sound is also present, along with horrible headaches that come every single day. I have 5 children, and so for none of them have it so far. And hopefully never will.

Oh!! I wanted to add, I only found out about my chiari after a car accident when i was 17. They did a study on my specific case I also had a srynx of 60%of my cord. I had no other symptoms besides headaches and neck pain. Homestly, all these years later, if I had experienced these things then I wld have understood so much more. I was mad 91st the unknown. Now that I am an adult and have a family is not the time to mess with me.. But we will see how this goes and keep praying for answers!! Sending prayers to all of those hurting for whatever reason!!

Had this for decades. I have hit my head often. It is related to my cranial bones moving ever so slightly. My jaw is also out of alignment. I can hear blood rushing thru on my left side.

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