Click when swallowing

[blk133]

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could help me.  For a few weeks now I have this click in my throat when I swallow.  Not when I am drinking water or eating, but just during normal swallowing.  It doesn't click when my head is down or up, but it clicks when I am looking straight.  If I put my fingers just above adams apple I can feel a click.

Please help me to identify what it could be.

Thank you,
B

[ClickingNeck]

I have the same click when I swallow.  If I push on my adams apple from the left side, I feel a click in my neck and then there is no click on the next swallow.  There has to be a cure!!

[ClickingNeck]

Thank you for posting this.  I have had the click for 4 months and I will try your method.   I hope it works!

[silvercat1]

I still have the click in the throat when I swallow. It's more noticeable at certain head positions, especially looking down. If I look up and swallow, the click is absent. It is not always noticeable. It can be much worse and noticeable if I cough or clear my throat, then swallow.  It is still noticeable when I swallow a drink.  If I press on my throat from the left, near or at the Adam's apple with the head slightly lifted upward, the throat just bends. If I press from the right, there is a click even without swallowing. It feels like the way a knuckle might crack but the throat bends and the sensation during the click or clicks is like a crumbling cartilage.  I get concerned if I press and the click occurs because I'm worried that it causes harm or that it had been mending and pressing might break it.  Does anyone know what the crunches/clicks are when I press on the right, but no crunches/clicks when I press on the left?  I worry that one side has been "broken" at some stage and is in pieces that hold themselves together in some way.  There is much in this forum that suggests click swallow is due to bone impacts. There was a mention of hiatus hernia but not the cause of the click swallow. I wondered if a hiatus hernia could cause a click swallow by the following:  The stomach fills with gas and gets bloated a little. Then, it presses upwards on the diaphragm and oesophagus. I wondered if the oesophagus could be pushed upwards a few millimetres whilst the stomach was full or gas. That might make the oesophagus push the larynx upward a little and when the swallow occurs, it might have made the structures of the throat impact in some way? This theory would probably not stand up if the oesophagus didn't move upwards a little.  Has anyone who has a hiatus hernia noticed if the click swallow disapprears temporarilly when/if/after they burp?  That is, air is released from the stomach, the pressure on the hiatus hernia is less and perhaps the oesophagus sinks downward a few millimetres, taking the pressure off the throat.  The oesophagus would probably have to act as a rigid tube but this might not be possible, I don't know.

I used to clear my throat a lot and have to suck Jakeman's sweets or something to help. But on one occasion, I took trimethoprim for another condition, and there was an affect on my thorat. Because it is an antibiotic, I assume it changed the flora of the throat. I noticed I didn't need to clear the throat regularly and didn't need to suck such sweets.  The click occurs if clearing the throat, so when I didn't need to clear it (coinciding with taking trimethoprim), the click didn't occur or was less noticeable. Taking trimethoprim and an impact on the throat may have been a coincidence, but for some of you, it may be worth a try.  You'd have to convince a doctor to prescribe it. But if you don't have a throat or chest infection, its unlikely you'd get such antibiotic.  I didn't have a throat infection but the AB was needed for some other condition elswhere unrelated to the throat.

[blk133]

I still have it.  There are more and more people who post with the same issue  and when you tell ear/nose specialist they look at you like you just fell of the moon ( 0_0 click? In the throat? No idea)

[blush720]

Don't know if anyone is still following this feed, but my ENT did make me feel like I was a nut.

[RB3825]

Did you ever resolve the click?  I too have a click in my throat that started two years ago.  They found a large growth on my thyroid and it was removed a year and a half ago.  Still clicking.  Went and had an upper GI and they found a hiatal hernia but said this is not the cause.  Am now having a laryngoscopy and barium swallow test.  Mine feels that there is a bone clicking in my throat only when I hold my head in certain positions and swallow.  If I tilt my head up it stops or if I am swallowing food or drink I do not feel it.  Curious to know if others resolved the click.  

[RiceFarm]

Hello

I come from Norway, but lives in England on a singing study. I have been seeing 4 doctors and 2 ostepaths to try to treat symptoms I randomly got after beeing sick for a couple of weeks with a throat infection.

After the throat infection I had last year a wierd sensation apeared, even after beeing healthy. The sensation is something beeing stuck in my throat 24/7. Like something beeing stuck in the throad or making it feel more narrow. When I swallow it usually click, but the intensity is random from day to day. Today its so loud that I and others can actually hear it. I look at some of the previous post and wierdly enough, swallowing, while looking to the left side makes it click free!

I am spending money on private ear, noose and neck specialist and will demand a CT scan. I am really glad I found out that I am not the only person who is experiencing this problem, which most doctors has not taken me serious on. I have been diagnosed stress, unhealthy, acid reflux and so on, but with no treatment to help. I feel unstress, healthy and just fine. This problem just came out of nowhere and is haunting me for the last 5 months. This is a huge problem for me as a singer and has to be resolved for me to continou doing so.

I will come back with results and stuff like that later.

Peace out! =)

[keyboy]

pls were u able to find any solutions??