Remember pop rocks candy?

[Lulu54]

That sound that they make in your mouth while the candy "explodes" in your mouth is the sound I hear when I turn my head left or right.  If I put my chin to my chest and stretch my neck I get that sound along with the popping sensation down my spine to about the middle of my back.  It doesn't feel good but it doesn't hurt in the traditional pain sense either.

Can anyone out there guess for me if this might be recognized as an MS symptom?  

No snap but lots of crackle and pop,
Laura

[Lulu54]

Yvette,
I had the series of spinal mri's but no one has bothered to explain the results yet.  I have copies but don't make a lot of sense other than lots of degenerative disc problems and a lesion (or edema!) in my cervical spine.  Arthritis would be a good guess - it is on both sides of my family very extensively.  

Thanks,
Laura

[vizslagal]

That is the sound my neck made before I had physical therapy. I have not been diagnosed with MS.  I did find out I have two herniations in my neck though. If you have neck pain with those sounds you might consider getting a cervical MRI if you haven't already.  I think the sounds are related to arthritis of the spine mosty of which I also have a little.

Yvette

[Momzilla]

I was much newer to kissing than he was, and a tad more shy about it, too.  Pop Rocks?  Maybe not TOO shy!  Only he had the rocks in his head.  And yes, they did hurt if a wayward one shot up to the back of your sinuses or somewhere!  Ouch!

But it was all in good fun, I guess.  Teenagers.  We stayed friends through our college years and made a pact that if we ended up unmarried by thirty, we'd marry each other out of desperation.  He invited married and pregnant me (hubby, too!) to his wedding years later!  Thanks for the stumble down Memory Lane!

Z*

[Lulu54]

Did you both have pop rocks in your mouth or just one of you?  Those things hurt at times, didnt they?  Thanks for the laugh.
Laura

[Momzilla]

Hmmmm. I can't think of what this might have to do with MS, but it does bring back a memory......  (Fades to misty gray; circa. 1979....)

My first real steady boyfriend used to want to smooch with Pop Rock Candy in our mouths!  Isn't that inventive?  And, yes, it was explosive!

I do realize this was not an answer to your question and WAY too much information.  For that I am sorry.  But, as Bob Hope used to say....Thanks, for ....well, you know.

Zilla*  (Hope you get an answer and feel better!)