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

[Vanessa925007]

Hello,

I'm getting this same symptom of clunking in my throat. Did you ever find out what the cause was?

[BethBeth1234]

This started 7 weeks ago, very annoying though it doesn't hurt. I stopped Amlodipine, a calcium channel blocker for blood pressure 6 weeks ago. I have been using Stevia extract for sweetness for about 3 years. I stopped using Stevia 5 weeks ago. Can't think of anything else that might cause this as a side effect. Now my throat doesn't click all on swallows (but those with food or drink), as it was 7 weeks ago.
There are more ways I can hold my head, swallow and no click.
Every so often I now have 2-3 swallows with no click when my head is face forward.
Anyone else consider that this might be a side effect?

[RiceFarm]

I have found the reason for my clicking larynx by selfdiagnosing myself and demanding CT pictures or these region while provoking some of the symptom. Even so it was apparent from just taking a natural CT. In my case it was calcification on the right side of the superior cornu (thyroid).

Also there is something odd with my lesser cornu (hyoid bone), but not an apparent problem.

I think with these issues they really have to use a CT scan as the diagnostic tool. I was misdiagnosed and mistreated for nearly 1 year, as so many specialist, doctors, ENT's, ostepaths... coudnt figure it out. They all ended upp on blaiming it on a mental disorder (like depresion or anxity) or saying I had muscular disorder.

After been taken good CT pictures I can now see why its out of balanse. My clicking when I swallow, look down, sides are caused by this exension of the superior cornu, making the hyoid bone under preasure and dislocated.

Look at my profile pictures here in medhelp to see the results. I have also texted them to make them understandable.

Right now I am awaiting answers from some surgant and specialist, if they can remove this calcifaction in a sutble way to restore the balance of my larynx.

I really hope I get this and my life back, becouse this disease have just been a real nightmare. Costly, consuming and scary.

[keyboy]

Hey, how u doing? please was there any update to ur results?

[candygirl40]

Hello, I am having a similar problem. But the clicking begins when I talk at the end of my sentence.  It seems that the sound is coming from my nose and its pretty loud to my ears and others can hear it once I bring it to their attention.  The clicking sound is very annoying to me.  I went to the ENT today and he advised that it was when I talk the muscle in the back of my throat opens and closes causes the clicking he guess.  He said there is nothing else that can be done.  Any suggestions for me.  It happens also when I swallow normal without drinking liguids.  Nothing hurts it just something that I am ashamed of.  

[miche508]

This clicking consumed me for the summer. Oddly, I had simultaneous neuralgia in my ear/throat in addition to the clicking which confused doctors even more! As much as I want to go up to UCLA to trim the cartilage, all doctors advised against something so invasive. If I use the wrong pillow for a couple of days the clicking comes back with a vengeance. I think neck/shoulder/head stretches helps. I use a firm tempurpedic pillow to keep my head in a position that doesn't promote the clicking and it gets better. I also take Aleve. One of my doctors believes it can be an arthritic issue (even though he knows the study by Marshall and Burke, he studied under Marshall in Utah). It's annoying as heck and painful at times when it flares up, but the more you focus on it the more you notice it. Try getting on a steroid for a couple of weeks to calm it down, and chalk it up to a freakish thing you were unlucky enough to get, but be thankful it's not something worse. Apparently, we are not alone!

[silvercat1]

I do. I feel like I want to cut something off that's catching - obviously I'm not going to try but that's the sensation I get in the throat near the adams apple. I read earlier about someone giving an exercise to do where you lie on the bed and let your head dropped back over the edge, but having a wrapped up towel under the back of the neck. I think this was some kind of "gentle?" stretching exercise. Has anyone else tried that and been successful or has it made the click worse? [it's a worry that such a posture might make the click condition worse, i.e. make whatever could possibly be impacting, positioned even more to cause impact?]. [I haven't had tonsils out].