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

[blk133]

Mine is still here.  Gets worse when I get a cold.  Don't think it will go away on its own.

[silvercat1]

Try not to worry. My overall consensus from reading this post top to bottom and also reading literature is surgery would be a lost resort and on balance, the risks of surgery are probably greater than doing nothing.  There will be various reasons for click swallow. One of the posters here wildblu98 has an excellent knowledge of throat anatomy and offers explanations for click. I think in your case, the suggestion of stretching the cartilage by intubation might be feasible but that's just my opinion (not based on any medical facts or statistics). I was also intubated - gastroscopy that went difficult. Since then, I had click swallow which occurs at specific head/neck positions. It doesn't hurt but frustrating and doesn't occur all the time (because the head/neck is not always fixed in the position worst for click swallow). If you message me with your e-mail address, I can send you some throat exercises that might help and a medical paper.  I think with time, your click will get less. If something has moved into position such that it now contacts as you swallow, with time, it may ease back or "wear" down (if such a thing can happen?) - I'd favour the former - easing back to the original normal position. Remember, self awareness of the click can sometimes make things worse because you, probably, like a lot of us, will position your head at different positions, then swallow to test the extent of the click or if it's there. It's sometimes best if you can try (if it's possible) to do things that will distract you. Also, you may have had a click before without even noticing, but that it may have just got worse to the extent that you have become aware. Rather than cartilages that have moved into position and are glancing past each other just touching, another potential cause of a click might? be a symptom of anxiolytic induced globus pharyngeas where cricopharyngeal muscle goes into spasm and causes the sensation of a lump. It may be that if spasm is present, when you swallow, the lump (which is not a sinister lump or an actual physical lump) may cause a click sensation on swallow. Do you have the click when swalloing food? or just when swallowing air/nothing?  I understand that globus sensations are not present when swalloing food (because a valve opens temporarilly to allow food to pass, and the muscles relax or sometjing like that). I would suggest you don't mess on poking your throat and don't start to peer down your throat daily looking in the mirror (which I did) because it means you're stretching your throat in different ways and it might??? make things worse, or at least increase your awareness too much. I hope this helps. Give me a message for the paper.

[mariana3526]

Hello to everyone reading this ... any advise is better than no advise.. did this ever go away for any of you..? or is surgery the only way to get results? If anyone could shed some light i would greatly appreciate it! I live in Chicago/ does any one know any Drs here that can help me...

[mariana3526]

Finally! Im not alone.  How did you notice your clicking? My second Ent thinks when they intibated me they may have over stretched me causing my cartilage to be rubbing/ wich is causing a click..... im so depressed over this?  It actually feels like a bone clicking and rubbing in my neck.....im so scared i have to live with this.... i see the Dr again tomorrow so we will see what he has to say

[Sboucher]

Hey I know it's a few years after your posts, but everything you have described, I have been going through for 7 months now. My docs thought I was just imagining things until I made them touch my throat while I swallowed so they could feel the "click" or "knock" so she has referred me to an ENT. I will be going to see them next month for the throat scope.
  I too have bouts where it doesn't really bother or consume me, but then I have days where I get pain on the same side my "knock" is comin from. Also, when I get a minor cold even, and my throat gets the typical discomfort from a cold, the side the knocking comes from has way more pain/discomfort then he right side.
If I push on my throat just above the atoms apple, my next two swallows are "silent" swallows. Or if I force a cough out, then again, the next two swallows are silent as well.
I'm now sure hat my ENt won't find anything due to what you few people has examined happened to you's. not very reassuring.
I have had so much stuff happen to my body in the last 7 years of my short life, that docs can't explain or fix, that the idea of having to just "deal" with yet another issue for the rest of my life is so discouraging.
  I was just hoping hat after these last few years, that maybe you have finally gotten to the bottom of this Robles and can shed some light knit for me to be able to take to the doctors next month.
Please, any kind of response is better then continuing on feeling like I am all alone in this battle of trying to get to the bottom of things.
Thanks for any advice in advance.
Sherisse

[Sboucher]

Hey I know it's a few years after your posts, but everything you have described, I have been going through for 7 months now. My docs thought I was just imagining things until I made them touch my throat while I swallowed so they could feel the "click" or "knock" so she has referred me to an ENT. I will be going to see them next month for the throat scope.
  I too have bouts where it doesn't really bother or consume me, but then I have days where I get pain on the same side my "knock" is comin from. Also, when I get a minor cold even, and my throat gets the typical discomfort from a cold, the side the knocking comes from has way more pain/discomfort then he right side.
If I push on my throat just above the atoms apple, my next two swallows are "silent" swallows. Or if I force a cough out, then again, the next two swallows are silent as well.
I'm now sure hat my ENt won't find anything due to what you few people has examined happened to you's. not very reassuring.
I have had so much stuff happen to my body in the last 7 years of my short life, that docs can't explain or fix, that the idea of having to just "deal" with yet another issue for the rest of my life is so discouraging.
  I was just hoping hat after these last few years, that maybe you have finally gotten to the bottom of this Robles and can shed some light knit for me to be able to take to the doctors next month.
Please, any kind of response is better then continuing on feeling like I am all alone in this battle of trying to get to the bottom of things.
Thanks for any advice in advance.
Sherisse