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Has anyone heard of a dislocated hyoid bone?????
Please, please give me some direction to head in with this!!! My 17 yr. old son complained of pain in his neck a couple of months after he flipped over a car. he had knee injuries as well. the orthopedic took an xray of his neck and said he was ok.
About 10 months later my son complained that while at his bus stop something popped in his throat and he couldn't breath for a minute and was forced to place pressure on it to pop it back in. I found it very odd and kind of brushed it off and said you're ok now so. Then a couple of months later it happened again. His pediatrician sent us to an Endoconologist. He had no answer and told us to see an ENT. We saw the ENT, he stuck a scope up through his nose and down to the throat and said he saw nothing. He sent him for a cat scan, which came back negative, so he brushed it off. We went to another ENT who also saw nothing and brushed it off as well.
This past week my son had his 3rd popping incident and this time the condition became cronic. Every time he turns his head this thing pops in his throat and it is very painful and scarry. I rushed him in to the 2nd ENT. This time the Dr, witnessed the popping for himself. He believes the hyoid bone is dislocating and rubbing into the cartilige of the thyroid.
We are waiting on an auth. for an MRI. THE PROBLEM IS AND QUESTION:
THE ENT SAID HE NEVER SAW THIS BEFORE AND SAID HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT????
IN THE MEANTIME HE INSTRUCTED MY SON TO WEAR A NECKBRACE TO STOP HIM FROM TURNING HIS NECK!!!
DOES ANYONE HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THIS AREA???
About 10 months later my son complained that while at his bus stop something popped in his throat and he couldn't breath for a minute and was forced to place pressure on it to pop it back in. I found it very odd and kind of brushed it off and said you're ok now so. Then a couple of months later it happened again. His pediatrician sent us to an Endoconologist. He had no answer and told us to see an ENT. We saw the ENT, he stuck a scope up through his nose and down to the throat and said he saw nothing. He sent him for a cat scan, which came back negative, so he brushed it off. We went to another ENT who also saw nothing and brushed it off as well.
This past week my son had his 3rd popping incident and this time the condition became cronic. Every time he turns his head this thing pops in his throat and it is very painful and scarry. I rushed him in to the 2nd ENT. This time the Dr, witnessed the popping for himself. He believes the hyoid bone is dislocating and rubbing into the cartilige of the thyroid.
We are waiting on an auth. for an MRI. THE PROBLEM IS AND QUESTION:
THE ENT SAID HE NEVER SAW THIS BEFORE AND SAID HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT????
IN THE MEANTIME HE INSTRUCTED MY SON TO WEAR A NECKBRACE TO STOP HIM FROM TURNING HIS NECK!!!
DOES ANYONE HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THIS AREA???
I am afraid to go to the doctor because i can easily move mine to the left and right, and it gets stuck, i get giddy, then really queazy. If the doctor does this to me, and he moves it too far to a place i never took it, i am afraid what will happen - i might cry in pain. I go to the chiropractor for back and neck adjustments, and 90% of the time, it moves a little, and i loose my breath. When i jump up and reposition my neck, i can breath again.
Hello everyone, so thankful for all your posts!!!
I had a visit to the ER because of this problem I was unable to push it back this time. I ended up staying all night @ the ER with doctors that had no clue, they ended up giving me a lot of pain medication including valium and morphine. After a ct scan without results they gave me more pain medication and told me to try to sleep it off. My husband explaint to them that it happened to me before but this time I was unable to push it back. Eventually I was able to sleep and it finally went away. A day and a half later I am extremely sore with all the previously mentioned symptoms and pain. They never heard of this condition before. If anybody knows a good specialist in North Carolina, that has experience with this problem, please let me know. Thank you for all your posts and helpful tips.
I had a visit to the ER because of this problem I was unable to push it back this time. I ended up staying all night @ the ER with doctors that had no clue, they ended up giving me a lot of pain medication including valium and morphine. After a ct scan without results they gave me more pain medication and told me to try to sleep it off. My husband explaint to them that it happened to me before but this time I was unable to push it back. Eventually I was able to sleep and it finally went away. A day and a half later I am extremely sore with all the previously mentioned symptoms and pain. They never heard of this condition before. If anybody knows a good specialist in North Carolina, that has experience with this problem, please let me know. Thank you for all your posts and helpful tips.
Dont trust the radiologists! I was in a car accident 6 month ago and got my MR images. About a month ago I was stunned to see bone shards in my left shoulder MRI.
I went to look at brachial plexus MRI and was stunned to see the shards in my throat.
I had gone to ENT two months ago and explained I had a fractured submandiular salivary gland as when I eat or brush teeth since the accident my gland swells. He said it had to have been peirced with bullet and is a rare injury unrelated to car accident. He put scope down my throat and saw nothing. duh the bones were on the outside of my throat. Guess what ENT? it was bone shards which peirced it.
I'm so dumbfounded as I went for CT scan last week with specific instructions for protocol to get clearest images for my own software. They ignored my written orders on consent form as as a result they took thicker slices with gaps. Make a long story short there are bones from I think my first ribs in my throat, as well as little shards of bone.
So if anyone knows a good surgeon in NYC please let me know. This bone business in my throat is driving me crazy. I don't even want to look at my hyoid bone in my CT scan images as every time I look at the images, I see more and more of what the radiologists missed 6 months ago, fractured arms broken vertebra,, etc
Whenever you get scanned for MR or CT make sure you get thin slices and write down gapless on your consent form. There are great programs out there, like OSIRIX which runs on mac platform. Review your own images.
The CT place reconstructed my images into blurrier images. Now its a battle as I revoked my assignment of benefits and refuse their radiologist look at my images until and unless they give me the thinnest axial images which are gapless. They are not permitted to put reconstructions of my images in my health records because those reconstructs only serve to help them get away with vague, inconclusive, and erroneous reports.
Best of luck to everyone and supervise the radiologists yourself with your own images and viewing software
I went to look at brachial plexus MRI and was stunned to see the shards in my throat.
I had gone to ENT two months ago and explained I had a fractured submandiular salivary gland as when I eat or brush teeth since the accident my gland swells. He said it had to have been peirced with bullet and is a rare injury unrelated to car accident. He put scope down my throat and saw nothing. duh the bones were on the outside of my throat. Guess what ENT? it was bone shards which peirced it.
I'm so dumbfounded as I went for CT scan last week with specific instructions for protocol to get clearest images for my own software. They ignored my written orders on consent form as as a result they took thicker slices with gaps. Make a long story short there are bones from I think my first ribs in my throat, as well as little shards of bone.
So if anyone knows a good surgeon in NYC please let me know. This bone business in my throat is driving me crazy. I don't even want to look at my hyoid bone in my CT scan images as every time I look at the images, I see more and more of what the radiologists missed 6 months ago, fractured arms broken vertebra,, etc
Whenever you get scanned for MR or CT make sure you get thin slices and write down gapless on your consent form. There are great programs out there, like OSIRIX which runs on mac platform. Review your own images.
The CT place reconstructed my images into blurrier images. Now its a battle as I revoked my assignment of benefits and refuse their radiologist look at my images until and unless they give me the thinnest axial images which are gapless. They are not permitted to put reconstructions of my images in my health records because those reconstructs only serve to help them get away with vague, inconclusive, and erroneous reports.
Best of luck to everyone and supervise the radiologists yourself with your own images and viewing software
YES....man, I'm so glad I stumbled upon this article. This has been an intermittent problem for several years. I've tried all kinds of moves to place what I thought was a ligament back to the correct side as it finds the way painfully stretched over my voice box; turned to the side and manipulated gently with a finger tip, head raised to to ceiling (pop) but the simplest so far...tuck my chin down to my shoulder bone without exerting much force. Try to relax. (I know, I know...) The problem self-corrects and I am left with only the temporary residual soreness everyone here is probably familiar with.
Now I finally know WHAT is going on when this happens, have always been mystified as to how it is I could be yawning incorrectly...
Now I finally know WHAT is going on when this happens, have always been mystified as to how it is I could be yawning incorrectly...
HAS ANYONE ELSE ENCOUNTERED SOME PROBLEM WITH THEIR VOICE…PAIN WHEN TALKING?
Hello I'm 51 and live in Quebec Canada. I have been in pain for 4 years now feeling a horrible lump in my throat! I have almost lost the ability to talk ...each sentence gets me in more and more pain.
Also moving my head in any directions, swallowing, bumps and twists when driving my car or when I walk brings much discomfort. My social life and activities are down to zero.
The lost of my ability to talk is what has been the most difficult part of it all. One cannot imagine the damage it does to one's life…we are communicating being I have learned that!!!
I have seen many specialists with no luck like most of you and have been told to learn to live with it. Not much of a life compared to what I was used to.
Here is how it happened …I started some singing lessons, over trained once and felt some tension…I tried to relief the tension by forcing a yawn with may head pulled backwards.
I felt a violent pain like if someone had punched me in the neck. I don't remember a clicking sound ...and it seems it never really came back in place.
Lately I started stretching and moving the hyoid bone, thyroid cartilage and cricoid cartilage from right to left up and down and have started to talk with more ease.
Hello I'm 51 and live in Quebec Canada. I have been in pain for 4 years now feeling a horrible lump in my throat! I have almost lost the ability to talk ...each sentence gets me in more and more pain.
Also moving my head in any directions, swallowing, bumps and twists when driving my car or when I walk brings much discomfort. My social life and activities are down to zero.
The lost of my ability to talk is what has been the most difficult part of it all. One cannot imagine the damage it does to one's life…we are communicating being I have learned that!!!
I have seen many specialists with no luck like most of you and have been told to learn to live with it. Not much of a life compared to what I was used to.
Here is how it happened …I started some singing lessons, over trained once and felt some tension…I tried to relief the tension by forcing a yawn with may head pulled backwards.
I felt a violent pain like if someone had punched me in the neck. I don't remember a clicking sound ...and it seems it never really came back in place.
Lately I started stretching and moving the hyoid bone, thyroid cartilage and cricoid cartilage from right to left up and down and have started to talk with more ease.
I've also had this problem myself.
It feels like the bone in my neck (my hyoid) is moving around pretty much every day, and if I lay the wrong way it will actually pop and move and cause excruciating pain.
I went to my doctor and after similar rounds of tests, he told me that the most likely cause of this is that my hyoid bone was actually ASYMMETRICAL (meaning not equal on both sides). So instead of being shaped like a horseshoe, which is normal, mine was either more like a fishhook, or that perhaps it was more of a bent horseshoe, which caused it to move differently in my neck.
I was told it was not serious, unless it moves majorly and makes contact with something else in my throat.
The best thing I've found to do is simply move it around occasionally with my fingers/hand. I have to do it myself though, because no one else knows what it feels like when it moves. Tell your son to grab his neck as though he were choking, or trying to strangle himself (sorry), but with his fingers closer to the front of his throat where the bone is. Squeeze GENTLY, and rock his hand back and forth, like you would if you were moving something across a table using only your wrist (like sliding a soda can closer to you so your cat doesn't knock it over).
It's sometimes scary, and very painful, when my hyoid moves on its own. This is NOT medically given advice, just what I've found that works. It seems to stop the bone from moving around on its own as much.
Just tell your son to keep calm about it, and NEVER swallow frequently or forcefully when he feels the bone has moved (it will HURT and potentially cause the bone to strike something else).
It feels like the bone in my neck (my hyoid) is moving around pretty much every day, and if I lay the wrong way it will actually pop and move and cause excruciating pain.
I went to my doctor and after similar rounds of tests, he told me that the most likely cause of this is that my hyoid bone was actually ASYMMETRICAL (meaning not equal on both sides). So instead of being shaped like a horseshoe, which is normal, mine was either more like a fishhook, or that perhaps it was more of a bent horseshoe, which caused it to move differently in my neck.
I was told it was not serious, unless it moves majorly and makes contact with something else in my throat.
The best thing I've found to do is simply move it around occasionally with my fingers/hand. I have to do it myself though, because no one else knows what it feels like when it moves. Tell your son to grab his neck as though he were choking, or trying to strangle himself (sorry), but with his fingers closer to the front of his throat where the bone is. Squeeze GENTLY, and rock his hand back and forth, like you would if you were moving something across a table using only your wrist (like sliding a soda can closer to you so your cat doesn't knock it over).
It's sometimes scary, and very painful, when my hyoid moves on its own. This is NOT medically given advice, just what I've found that works. It seems to stop the bone from moving around on its own as much.
Just tell your son to keep calm about it, and NEVER swallow frequently or forcefully when he feels the bone has moved (it will HURT and potentially cause the bone to strike something else).
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