Fizzing sound in neck

[Jonw1983]

Hi, for about a year now i have had this fizzing sound in my neck that occurs randomly, usually when i am just laying down. It doesnt occur when i am moving my head or anything, its usually just when i sitting still or laying down. It sounds like it is coming directly from the back of my neck and is starting to worry me. I also experience these weird pains in my head that come for about a second and then go and come back again every 10minutes or so. These pains are in 1 area in the back of my head in about a 1 square inch area.. Any ideas???

[SulemaMarie]

First of all, this is a normal phenomenon, so, all the hypochondriacs need to go find another topic.  I have experienced this all my life, especially as a teen ager and young adult, when I suffered from eating disorders.  The crystalline sound/sensation was something I tried to achieve.  It occurs when you are hungry, and while I am no scientist, I suspect it is related to the function of the Lateral Hypothalmus, which signals your brain that you are hungry by firing neuron pulses.  Neurologists will argue about whether or not you can actually hear neurons "firing", but it is my theory that is precisely what you are hearing.  I also think it is more a sensation than it is sound, but our brains interpret it as sound.  I do know that there have been studies conducted where the firing of neurons is amplified and can be heard in that state.  Given this information I believe it is entirely within the realm of possibility that we not only feel those tiny electrical impulses, but given the proximity to the origin, hear them as well.

[DamianG]

I have had this as well of and on for many years and have wondered what it was.   Usually happens when I am dehydrated or hungry, but not consistently.   Just randomly every once in a while there is this rice krispies sound in my neck,  no pain whatsoever.  It comes and goes fairly quickly,  I know it's not a neck or spinr injury since I can be lying completely stilland it happens and it would occur much more often and consistently if it was something related to a physical injury.  Anyway, glad to see others with this as well,  would love to figure out what it is.

[Jasonu]

Same bubbling in my neck. My wife can actually clearly hear mine when she is sitting next to me

[bhaiiyu]

i am also feeling since last year before it seems to come from my head and neck area but now it looks like as if coming from my back ,i.e from my spine

[Dagun]

I have this also, to me it feels like the CBF is maybe thick and filled with corn? But I also get that people would call it like popping like fizzing soda. I think it is nothing serious, just kind of creepy. I just think that some people can hear this and others wont.  
Dagun

[LindaPez]

After reading up on many of those who posted the fizzing problem at the base of the cranium/top spine or so, I was just remembering how it all started with me. I had that accident (whiplash), oh that was 30 yrs ago. That kind of whipped the back of my neck. I went to get an xray just for the sake of the insurance co, who told me to get one.  The doctor there said I had bad posture, nothing more. Two and half years later, I get migraines, then that funny sensation came up and down my spine (the fizzing) while I lay in my bed, that it ran through the back of my head, like there was a problem with blood (like getting numb) and it vibrated. That was scary, then one time I had bad migraine, I didn't know how I got it, we were traveling to Norfolk, and we had to go under a tunnel, then after that I got the worse fizzing up my spine that I took Advil, whatever there was to help it, then I went to bed carefully putting my head down. Then next thing I know, after turning several minutes later, the refridgerator in the hotel room was spinning. I ran to the bathroom and said to my husband, something is wrong, I was throwing up and tore the toilet off the floor (oops, the hotel forgot to put in the bolts). That's when I had to go to the emergency room according to the hotel people. The ER then they figured out I was on drugs (nope, just advil), then they took my blood by permission to make sure I was not lying. The tests came back negative, so they determined it was vertigo. Ok, that's it. The migraines turned this into vertigo, and I had a silent sinus and ear infection. Bingo, so all that noise you hear, you don't even know you have an ear infection, nor a sinus issue. I don't usually feel pain because my pain threshold is so low in the nerves, but inside the head I seem to feel pain sometimes, particularly if the blood isn't flowing well if I have low blood pressure (thus the migraine). What brings on these symptoms, well this is the list:

Sinus/Ear Infections tend to be sensitive to:
Dairy Products
Sugars

Vertigo issues with the inner ear tend to be sensitive to:
Car accidents- some people have C4-6 dengenerative discs that attribute
   towards problems in neck that deals with muscles and nerves
   going up the spine. And the calcium crystals in the inner ear (semi
   circular canals get shook up and land on the 8th nerve, which causes the
   dizzyness. For some it's just the fizz.
Ear Infections- (see above Sinus/Ear Infections)
Anxiety- muscles changes the ear area and neck that pulles the inner ear
   changing the calcium crystal's position (magnesium deficiency)
Stress- muscle constrictor (Vit B/magnesium deficiency)
Parasites- some do enter into that region to bother the equilibrium
Caffiene - muscle constrictor (see anxiety), tmj in the jaw and neck,
    narrowing blood vessels and capilliaries (known to feed the equilibrium
    and other important areas of muscles)
Chemicals - some foods have additives and preservatives. In Wine
    (Barefoot brand, White Moscato) has a chemical in it that set off my
    equilibrium. It's sodium related. And Alcohol can do it, but I've not had
    any major problems with other brands, I drink only in moderation. I'm
    not a drinker. [more research should be done on this re: in our food/drink
    consumption]
Sodium- water retention, this bloats up middle ear and changes muscles
    too.
White Flour products- Bread especially (probably because of the yeast).
    Yeast creates more acid bubbly offspring called candida. This is mostly
     the problem in our health these days. If you cut back on this, you may
     feel the difference.
Aspartame- or any artificial sugars, this triggers twitching in the eyes and
     other parts of the body. This could intervere with inner ear capilliaries.
Refined Sugars - too much of this can exacurbate the dairy intake and
     create issues with middle ear fluids/mucas in nature to cause fullness.

To settle this down, cutting back on white flour products, sodium, caffiene, sugars, dairy products may help and add magnesium, oregano (for parasites), and take an advil and half a pill of benadryl in the day time. At night a full pill of benadryl or Nyquil.  This will bring down anxiety a notch and calm your senses plus remove inflamatory in the ears and sinuses.  Do this before you do yoga, as yoga will trigger different muscles to tighten in the neck area and cause more problems with degenerative discs if it exists.

By doing the above recommended suggestions; the noise, bone rubbing gasses, fluids, muscle tightening, fizzing and electric pulses will lessen and avoid vertigo.  One more thing, if the blood pressure is low, take naicin. As with accidents, PBPV excercises should be done on the side that the fullness drops in weight. My right side seemed to drop (right ear problems), so I would do it on that side in the case of vertigo issues to bring back the calcium crystals to it's orginal place. The calcium crystals bump out of place, if there's an accident or swelling due to inflammation re: colds, or other for example too much sodium or caffiene. But most people only get the fizz, so that's just in it's preliminary stages, if you've never experienced vertigo. Don't wait until it's too late for the vertigo to set in and creep you out.  Follow the dietary suggestions and you will be good to go and avoid the vertigo stage.