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

[kittenlove45]

did u ever figure this out i am really stressed out about it pease help

[robert2323]

here: more about anxiety, scroll down to: Mouth/Stomach (anxiety symptoms)



https://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety-symptoms.shtml

[robert2323]

I have the same problem and the cause is stress/anxiety, is like over swallowing, also neck pain,  the muscle there get really tense. the more you think about it the more you start to swallow, but if you busy doing others things the clicking disappear, try this: when feeling like swallowing turn you head to the left, right or sides, whichever side is not clicking, maybe a few times while you feel anxious about the clicking and it will stop,

[LAJ4life]

Hi Jilldai. DId you ever figure this out?? I have the exact same thing and trouble swallowing for three months now with 11 negative tests including ct and mri and blood and two barium swallows and upper GI. Thank u!

[Chargurl]

Why does pulling up on that area towards the ear work?  What does it mean???  Is it a muscle or jaw thing?!? I've already seen 2 doctors. 1 thought I had a sinus infection since my ears felt full/ were popping and I was congested.  The other doctor sent me for an X-ray of my sinuses saying she isn't sure I have a sinus infection (awaiting results of X-ray).  

My RMT said she felt fluid under my ear/ near my jaw line.  Told me to go to the dentist...maybe a tooth abcess?  My gum is swollen behind my last molar but I'm still waiting for my dentist appointment.

Background: My symptoms all started 3 days after a gastroscopy and have not stopped for 2 months.  Any suggestions or explanation would be appreciated...need the ear popping to stop!

[Mikhael53]

I have had the crackling, clicking sound in my throat for many years, usually after I swallow it happens a few seconds later. I also have a grinding gravel sound in my c-spine when I turn my head in any direction. In the last few months I have developed a never ending and getting worse, pain that runs from just behind my right ear, down my neck across the top of my shoulder, into my shoulder blade, sometimes down my right arm and sometimes into my right breast. Also, any finger pressure on the right side of my thyroid causes great pain.

I was recently diagnosed with Relapsing Polychondritis, which causes cartilage in one's body to become inflamed and deteriorate. There are symptoms to the disease that are visible, such as one's ears turning red and feeling very hot, except for the ear lobe. I have had the disease for about 10 years, but no doctor that I described my symptoms to could put the symptoms with a disease. This is not uncommon with this disease. It is a very rare disease, with only 3 to 5 out of a million ever being diagnosed. There may be many more people than this that have the disease and just haven't been able to get a diagnosis.

I am going to Mayo Clinic in January for them to conduct some testing to determine how much cartilage damage has already been done and try to find a treatment plan, as RP has no known cure. I have reached the point with mine that I actually feel the heat on the outside of my trachea when I am either in a visible flare or in a flare but not visible at the ears. I have lost some hearing in my right ear due to Eustachian tube partial collapse. As time has gone by, my throat has been getting worse, as well as more and more frequent bouts of hoarseness.

Another symptom of the disease is fatigue; often debilitating fatigue that can only be improved my getting in my soft, quiet, cool and dark bedroom and resting for a while.

Many posts back, in this thread, I saw comments about sinus problems and swollen sinuses. I suffered with my sinuses most of my life. I had a deviated septum which was taken care of by surgery almost 20 years ago. That helped a lot, but I still suffered from sinus congestion until my diagnosis with the Polychondritis and my Rheumatologist placing me on Colcrys. Within 3 days my sinuses cleared up and have been clear for 5 months. I haven't gone that long without some kind of allergy med or decongestant since I was a teen; I am 59.

I don't know if RP could be the cause of any of the issues on this thread, but since so few doctors and even fewer people seem to have ever heard of it, I felt that it was worth taking the time to post some information about it. There is a lot of information on the internet about the disease. Start at the Mayo Clinic website and work out from there if you can identify with the symptoms given there.

Best Wishes to All...MIke