Thanks again for the quick reply. I think these strange symptoms makes us think we have something rare, when most people with the same condition are experiencing the same. Sometimes the crunching sounds are almost sickening when for instance, I'm simply rolling over in bed. Even my wife has been amazed at how much sound they make. I just got through finding the name for crunchy joints "Crepitus".
Your chocolate joke caught me by surprize and I almost fell off my computor chair! I really needed that laugh today!
Crunchy-Jowles Jim
Before I was diagnosed with a thyroid condition, I went to the doctor for knee pain. The pain felt like water swishing and sounded like it too. They took an xray and said I had rheumatoid arthritis. My jaw also makes all kinds of noise when I chew, esp chocolate (just a joke) Anyway, they put me on cruches for a week and the pain didnt go away until I started taking thyroid meds. They even had me on bextra, scary to think about now. While, the jaw still makes all kind of popping sounds, with no pain, the knee hasnt bothered me since.