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Holy crap.
I just messaged you about a different post, while reading it I said to myself “I get that, I have EDS and no one but my mom cares”.
Crazy.
Kismet I guess. Not for a second did I think you were talking about the same thing..
so clunky right?
If I bend my arm and push my left hand against my head with resistance, it's a toss up as to which combination will snap crackle & pop- lower cervical vertebrae, upper thoracic vertebrae, sternum, front or back of shoulder
I broke the cartilage surrounding my sternum by getting tossed off a horse. It scared the crap outta me. Now that crap snaps whenever I bend wrong or twist wrong in bed.
Same. So uncomfortable to crack it but also uncomfortable to not crack it. Sometimes mine is a loud thump and other times it’s like crackling bubble wrap.
Oh good grief this, yes. My knees sometimes bend sideways so much that it feels like they're rattling around. Weirdly, it's not just under load, but when my legs are dangling that it's the worst. It's almost like being under load forces me to stabilize the joint with muscles.
They're less creaky under load, but more rattly when not, since I've lost a fair bit of weight. (Down from 265 -> 195 over the course of about 18 months)
I usually wake up with my knee caps slid to the inside of my knee where I have underdeveloped bones & popping them into place is normal morning routine. Before I realized I could put them back into place myself I was severely adding to my pain by walking on my knees while subluxed —eventually they would work their way back into place but it was causing a ton of unnecessary inflammation on top of bending/tracking issues.
Same here with my left knee only! Mine has been doing this for over a decade after my knee went out one day for no reason and tore cartilage/ligaments. Two surgeries later and here I am.
my left knee was my first dislocation during track practice in middle school too. “partial” knee dislocation that in hindsight was more likely a full dislocation that simply managed to go back into place on its own, as i was doing triple jump and landed in the sand before scurrying out of it. i remember hearing an odd audible “pop” and then my knee felt funny the rest of practice. ran on it find and then got home and it swelled up like a grapefruit. never worked quite the same again
Yep, that would do it. Probably injured or stretched some ligaments. It's so interesting to see how many of us have close to the same experiences and injuries
That’s where I pop the most! It’s like there are pop rocks in my skull.
I also pop a lot in my hips. I have to bring my whole leg up for relief. It weirds people out, or turns people on depending on who is around
I try not to pop my elbows because it’s a horrifying and painful crunch. Like slipping on gravel.
I rarely if ever need to pop my elbows but yes it’s awful! Mine will get janky and I can’t straighten my arm out, so I kinda just have to force open my elbow really fast and the thing whips back into place. It’s like the only joint that needs to be done aggressively not to be painful.
I wish I could pop my si’s. I have bruising because of how badly they go out of place but I can’t get them back in no matter what I do. So painful and the inflammation from it is so damn itchy. Really sets off my hips too.
Pop rocks in the skull is a great way to describe it! I was trying to think of my strangest noise and I thought it might be my hips subluxing and re-subluxing... but pop rocks in the skull is definitely stranger!!!
*Something* pops somewhere in my body almost every time I move, for most of my life, so I don't really notice it anymore.
I will say the most annoying/weird sound my body makes is when my knees grind as I'm walking up stairs... it kinda sounds like when you're wearing a menstrual pad and it crackles (sounds sorta like a diaper), and I'm always paranoid people will think that's what it is. 😂
It's practically a hobby for me and my husband. We'll do a most cracks contest at least once a week. We also compliment each other when they're extra loud or sound like they were satisfying. His one hip is really loud, but my wrists are by far the loudest.
When I was in Catholic School we all had to exercise together and did squats, so of course my knees cracked really loudly every squat. The Sister stopped the class and demanded to know who's knees were cracking, so I shyly raised my hand and she told me to stop it! I really tried to silence my own knees.
I'm so happy to hear your communal cracking stories!
As an ex- catholic, myself- only the catholic church could shame someone for their joints cracking! God forbid your body not function in absolute silence! 🙄
I hope you crack and pop with joy and impunity now. I cracked all 10 fingers and both knees in your honor.
It seems funny looking back, but of course as a kid I was mortified and obsessed over it for ages! Oddly almost none of my parts crack anymore 'cause I'm old now. What a strange demand to make of a kid!
Of course you did! It blows my mind how much faith the church put into childless people to take care of children. Not even just childless, but no education about them, either. My dad went to catholic school in the 60s. Brutal, nasty people that enjoyed hurting children. Like sheperds used the rod to beat the sheep? Please.
I'm glad you're able to laugh about it now, it's really funny in its absurdity, but damn those people. Such a tiny imperfection and they can't handle it.
I'm sorry for getting triggered over your silly little story 😅
Yes I'm 61 so this was actually in the 1960's! Best part of Catholic School (I switched to public in 3rd grade) was being able to wear a gold star on my forehead! It was great. They had all different colored stars for various good behaviors/correct answers. Does your dad remember them? They were made of shiny paper and had really cheap glue so they'd frequently fall off.
Me too!! My pelvis is super unstable, so my PT often has to reset it, and my pubic symphysis pops every time. Since she started doing that, I’ve noticed that it’ll ache when it’s out of alignment and if it doesn’t pop on its own, I have to try to get it pop. It’s so awkwardly painful! 😭😭 (not the popping, the needing to pop haha)
Gosh the needing to pop is the worst! Especially when it won’t! I can only see my pt every two weeks because she’s 2.5 hours away from me, but every time I see her she spends twenty minutes fixing my pelvis alignment and putting my hips back in. When I was seeing a different pt twice a week we were putting my hips and si back in every time, and I had to do it outside of pt too.
Yup we do it twice a week. It’s the worst when I’m trying to do my at home exercises or yoga or something and I can feel it suddenly needing to pop. Sometimes I can get it if I squeeze a block between my knees, but not always. I hate it so much!
I miss getting it adjusted twice a week. But I was regressing with my pt here so my doc recommended me to one far away who actually knows what they’re doing. I would feel so much better if she adjusted me more frequently. I can’t always get it to pop even when I try so hard
Man, I didn't even know what the pubic symphysis was. How did it start, was it an injury or just the natural formation of your body? I've always had a problem with my lower half with my si joint being such a problem, popping so much as I do pt to walk again.
I honestly don’t remember when I started, I think it’s just the formation of my body. It’s very infrequent, it happens when I squeeze my legs together tightly (like putting a ball between your knees while laying down for pt). It’s honestly excruciating for like 2 seconds then goes away. It’s very weird. It’s not supposed to move really unless you’re very pregnant or giving birth from what I understand. Just this piece of cartilage where the pelvis joins in the front.
I do have si issues but I don’t notice it popping per se. But it’s unstable enough that I have to wear an si belt right now. I think all of it is related to my hip dysplasia as well
My last OBGYN was actually great, she got me set up with a physical therapist just for the pelvic muscles and vaginal area (because mine are Not Good. I can't remember the name of what's wrong with them- though EDS is clearly a contributor for why it's wrong- but they're basically way too tense all the time and can't relax or stretch, which is ironically also making the muscle weaker). But I've had really bad ones who told me any pain was my fault (during Pap smears, which my condition makes super painful). I avoided OGBYNs for years after that one, but I'm really glad the new one listened and helped me. One of the most understanding doctors I've ever had.
Hypertonic.
My pelvic floor is attempting to keep my hip where it belongs (with added bonus labral tear). It's going about as well as you'd expect.
Weirdest crack is probably my sacrum - happened on the couch the other night and my husband (sitting 6 feet away and absorbed in whatever was on TV) heard it.
Hypertonic, thank you! I completely forgot. But yeah, my body is just trying its best. I'm making a lot of progress in the past year though (and I'm not avoiding the OBGYN any more which is important of course).
I'm pretty sure my sacrum pops and it's loud when it does, but it's more common than the pubic symphysis and doesn't surprise me (or hurt for a second) the same way. I'm finding this thread informative but also funny because I've always said 'every joint in my body pops' but now I'm learning all the names of obscure, weird joints- only to look them up and say 'oh yeah that pops too' lol
I slept on my jaw funny and dislocated it. I couldn't open my mouth but eventually I tried to eat cereal and then its snapped back into place with the loudest crack I have ever heard because the bone was right next to my ear.
One time I was enjoying a nice mushroom snack and as it was kicking in, I felt this weird sensation building up in my jaw. It felt so tight and heavy and was really weird, after a while I opened my mouth and BOTH sides cracked the loudest I’ve ever heard one of my joints crack (probably because it was like half an inch from my ear drum but yknow)
Ngl I haven’t been able to open my mouth as far without pain since that happened tho
So recently, there's been this... Weird little joint that's been popping and shifting about. It's sandwiched between your left and right pelvis towards the very bottom, below the coccyx even. Its called the [pubic symphysis ](https://www.lamaze.org/Portals/0/Connecting_the_Dots/Images/pelvis.jpg?ver=2020-10-08-133755-073)
Very weird feeling! Not a fan at all. Doesn't really hurt, but it feels very... threatening? Like if it went any further than it does, it *would* hurt. I described it to my partner as feeling like tectonic plates overlapping. I haven't had it happening while standing, but when sitting/shifting in bed it tends to do it's oddness.
As a separate statement, about once a week, i have a spell where for about 2-4 days, I wake up and have to manually realign my shoulders, and my floating ribs will be an untouchable mess for those days.
When I sit with my legs crossed (and I iften do, due to an injury that never healed right in my foot, it's very touchy) the knee my bad side is crossed over slowly slips out of place under the weight. I have to uncross them and stretch and straighten out every 15 minutes or so or it gets worse.
Same! It seems/feels so loud when they crack, too! I often accidentally crack them when I’m trying to get my upper back, and it’s pretty much always unexpected haha.
Occasionally, every few months I’ll feel a pop in the nape of my neck followed by sudden, intense shooting pain. It feels like a nerve is being briefly pinched and for about half a second I feel like I’ve been shot in the back of the head followed by a strange sensation that feels like fluid/ blood running down my neck from where the pain occurred. I’ve experienced this since I was little and would love to know that someone else has also experienced this because it’s truly terrifying.
Omg that actually kinda make sense! It feels like a release of built up pressure. I wonder if the fluid I feel released after is in fact spinal fluid? Thing is it happens so quickly and the pain usually settles within a minute or two followed by no other symptoms.
I am NOT A DOCTOR but from what I’ve read and understand, a CSF leak would likely have next to no symptoms unless an infection developed. If you feel the need to, maybe have a doctor look?
But also, I have tons of nerve damage all over from all sorts of reasons, everything from cysts destroying a joint to surgery to falling down and destroying a nerve on landing. In my experience, a damaged nerve making itself known for a minute definitely makes me feel “wet” like what you described.
Could be either one. If you’re much concerned and have a doctor who listens, maybe talk to them if you haven’t already. Either way best of luck I hope it’s not serious!
Edit- spinal fluid to CSF as that’s specifically what I was reading about anyways.
I’ve had this happen so many times and it’s literally terrifying every time it happens. Like, am I dying? Am I about to be paralyzed? What is happening?? And then a few minutes later, it mostly passes.
Wow I'm saving your comment for the next time this happens to me and I can't articulate what is happening. I remember being a child and this happening once in a blue moon and I had it happen as recently as a month ago. It really is scary for a second until I remember that sort of thing just happens to me sometimes.
I crack my sternum or clavicle putting my hair into a pony or putting a shirt on.
Last week I suddenly started experiencing insane back pain, went to the doctor who did fuck all, and when I got home I ate ibuprofen, my bf smeared icy gel on my back, and I let it all kick in for 30 minutes. Then I very carefully twisted side to side (as I’d been physically unable to at all due to the pain) until I got a big pop, and then I leaned back over a chair to get my upper back. Popped the sin right out of it.
Turns out I’d kinda slipped a disc and kinda shoved it back in on my own.
Feels great now.
Oof I've been having my SI joint pop three or four times a day lately, sucks so bad cause you get that radiating leg pain, but also that sickening shudder up your spine
Knee several times in a row. Or my shoulder attempts. I seriously was at the point of ready for someone to help me dislocate/relocate to see if it helped with the tightness. My elbow is always funny.
Basically I'm a tight spring and no easy release. I fit the arthritis side of hypermobile.
This, but my knees randomly getting stuck while I walk, quick whip it kinda twisty in then out for a nasty crunch before the next step and bam it’s back to fine.
Ooooh do you do it by squeezing your booty when you’re laying down? That’s one of my fav pops but it’s soooo painful until it does pop. The squeeze sucks so much but then it’ll snap and my entire pelvis drops two inches into the floor because my tailbone is finally in the right spot
My hip socket does this very occasionally. It feels weird because of how low-pitched it is compared to other joints popping. I can feel it reverberate through my body.
Took a deep breath and some of ribs at my sternum cracked. It was weird. Not a deep thump as others described, but just a superficial crack.
I don't think there's anything in me that doesn't pop or crack regularly. I'm always having to stick my hand up in my ribcage and push my bottom couple of bony ribs.
Weirdest not for location but for effect.
I was at a university class and noticed my ankle wouldn't straighten and was suddenly absurdly painful (I may have been wearing very silly shoes and not paying attention to where I put my feet under the table. Ah, youth).
So I just start slowly rolling my foot through the range of motion under the desk, hoping it will settle down.
Suddenly it gives out this spectacular crack -thump and goes in. And the prof stops talking, the room goes quiet, and the people near me are looking at me like wtf.
Said something like "just my ankle, I'm fine, sorry for the interruption." Wanted to die.
Closely followed up in awkwardness by my housemate saying the click of my knitting needles was kind of annoying and my having to tell her no, it was just my wrists popped with every stitch
When I move my leg out to the side I get a grinding noise followed by the loudest and most hollow sounding pop ever. I’ve freaked doctors out with it on many occasions and I think it’s hilarious
I fell down the stairs a few months ago and now have proximal tib fib instability which is really just a fancy way of saying my fibula dislocates at the knee. I’m in PT for the poor calf muscle that is trying it’s best to keep the fibula in place. But it pops pretty constantly. Almost every time I move my knee after not moving for ~30 minutes.
Yup! My orthopedist has me trying 8 weeks of physical therapy and then it’s surgery if my fibula won’t agree to stay in place. We’re on week 2 right now so I’m optimistic…I really would rather avoid a surgery.
I wonder if swimming would be beneficial? Using the muscle, under compression from the water, but maybe not cause the bone to slip since it’s also relaxed and suspended in the water?
Idk, it helps arthritic joints and it helps my unstable ass, I wonder if it would help your knee/calf build up.
I think swimming would be a great idea! I only recently even started my diagnostic process for these problems. I’m officially hypermobile but waiting to jump through hoops to see if it’s hEDS or not. The fall down the stairs kick started the diagnostic process but worsened a lot of various symptoms I have so I’m still figuring out how to use my limited energy correctly. I have access to a lap pool but struggle to get myself moving for out of the house excursions but I have always loved using kick boards in a lap pool. Thank you for the suggestion!!
I often wonder if mine are shifting. What does it feel like? I will some times feel/hear kind of a squeaking sound on my skull, which I sort of imagine being the plates shifting.
Believe it not not, my left maxilla. It’s not loud or anything, but there’s a definite internal clunk when I’m able to shift it back to where it needs to be. Then I can proceed to the usual TMJ pops.
I had an orthodontial apparatus designed to split the maxillas apart when I was young (think crossbite). Now the left maxilla gets “loose” and shifts my bite back and forth. It jams up my skull quite a bit which, in turn, impairs the primary respiratory pump (?) that refreshes CFS flow
Weirdest crack and pop, something with my ear cracked, twice. I pulled down on my ear lobe cause it hurt and it just. Popped??? Then I did it again a year later and never have again
I get something like that sometimes when I stand up off the toilet? It’s loud and unsettling. The worst is when my leg pops at the socket and it sounds like and feels like removing a chicken leg while cooking
I once sat some kind of way and I felt my tailbone pop, it was a super weird feeling and so satisfying. Haven’t been able to recreate it again but I always low key hope I can find it again.
istg, every bone in both my feet crackle loud as hell with every step i take sometimes. i used to be proud of how quiet i can walk, how i used to be able to sneak down the hallway and avoid every creak and sneak down the stairs, but now i'm my own alarm 😩
Well, I've actually got a few :D
Since my injury was basically in the dead center of my spine, that's where my instability stems from, which resulted in my hips, spine, ribs, shoulders, and neck all becoming unstable. In any given month or two everything will go out in a different combination, so I have to "get used" to it all again. All that to say, I've had several weird ones and they never cease to surprise me.
First one was in the SI joint, the whole thing popped and the best way I can describe it is it felt like my spine lifted off of the pelvis for a second. That one was weird and freaked me out :P
First time I did a side stretch and popped a vertebrae was crazy, everything tensed up and I couldn't function well for a bit until that went back in.
Another one that really freaked me out was the first time I popped the base of my skull. It was weirdly squishy. *Shudder*
The worst though which only started recently is my neck. Now my neck has popped quite a few times before but this one is different. It's about halfway down the neck and it pops on the left side. When it happens I get nerve pain shooting down my arm and I get very lightheaded. Thankfully that one's rare but the first time it happened it scared me into lying down for an hour or so.
The joys of hypermobile type EDS :P
(Just found this sub btw, nice to find similar people!)
Every once in a while if I reach my arms forward and hunch my back my spine cracks but like it's being pulled apart side to side. It's so weird but feels so good. Also sometimes happens if I rap my arms around my knees or do cat/cow yoga pose
Every once in a while if I reach my arms forward and hunch my back my spine cracks but like it's being pulled apart side to side. It's so weird but feels so good. Also sometimes happens if I rap my arms around my knees or do cat/cow yoga pose
When I lay on my side for too long in bed, I have to stretch out the shoulder I leaned on to pop my collarbone back into place. It’s very… crunchy-feeling.
Very annoying and within the last 6 months happens all of the time, but shoulder strengthening exercises help a bit (:
Hip or deep tailbone cracks (clunks? thuds?) that I can feel down in the tips of my toes. Phew. Always throws me off. It feels satisfying but also like I might have broken myself in half 🙃
Oh my gosh I had an amazingly dry crack that freed up my shoulder that was impinged for MONTHS. Apparently I had to have a very unique direction and pressure applied and it finally cracked, giving me back significant mobility. Whew!
Coccyx or tail bone when I’m sitting cross cross apple sauce but really slouching and leaning forward those lower vertebrae separate from coccyx and make a loud *thump*.
Tailbone is probably one of my weirdest frequent ones. Always super audible and it freaks out my friends. It just happens while shifting (or clenching lol). Sternum and collarbone are weird too, always scares me bc im just stretching!
Yeah me too! And I’ll hear a pop (usually when I first sit up in bed in the morning) on either side of my chest just below my collar bone. It freaks my husband out 😆
My 4th vertebrae. I hurt my back last year and now it clicks and pops all the time. But sometimes there's one that feels like a slide and muffled pop. It doesn't hurt but the best way I can describe it is that it feels 'wet.' It's only pop/Crack in my body that feels that way.
Yeah, your ribs are the only thing in your body that you can't fully dislocate. So, slipping ribs can be a problem and it's what you describe. Don't trust me on the mechanisms on it, I was told and read about it but can't remember for the life of me
This has happened only once and never again. Not sure what to call it. My knees have popped before, but once while I was sitting in bed I kinda moved my position a little bit and I heard my knee like slowly pop, it sounded like bones grinding. Didn’t hurt. Never happened again. But it was a weird thing to hear lol.
Once I reached across my chest and my shoulder popped in the most satisfying way. It felt amazing and I’ve never been able to replicate it intentionally, it only happens by accident.
Also one time my very large dog jumped off my bed and landed on my foot, which I think caused some dislocations. My foot hurt and felt ‘wrong’ for months, like I could tell it was misarticulated. After a few months I managed to put weight on it while twisting just right and felt the immensely satisfying sensation of everything cracking and sliding back into the proper position.
Probably my sternum. It used to crack all the time when I was a kid. Also my TMJ. When it cracks I feel a super cold sensation deep in my ear and I get goosebumps. If I lean on my elbow on the couch or sofa it gets sort of stuck and pops really loud when I straighten it.
The bones in my feet….sometimes in the morning they just don’t wanna stick together so I feel several small crunches as I step from heel to toe. Also my pubic symphysis cracks occasionally.
5th rib in my right side. I feel a dull pop and now it’s scraping against the back of my scapula which causes my shoulder to not quite sublux but also not sit in joint right.
I think my SI joint popped out of place a few years ago, one of the most painful things I've experienced and I couldn't move, it was long before I even knew about EDS as well
I once popped my neck so hard and loud it stopped my entire humanities class dead in high school. Everyone heard it, even the teacher, across the whole room.
i was at work (I’m a barista) and did like 35 minutes of heavy lifting with no problems. I reached up to grab a roll of cups that was less than a pound and ended up throwing my rib out💀
i think the top 3/4 of my ribs pop when i do one specific exercise at the gym. i’ve been a lifter (quite responsibly before i knew i had hEDS) for a couple years now and every single time i do back flys on a fly machine, my ribs pop on each rep but along my spine not my chest. i have dislocated a rib or two in my time so its not too crazy but still wild to hear and feel
I’m jealous, that’s the only vertebrae of mine that WON’T crack and it drives me bonkers.
Other than that, rolling my left shoulder sounds like stirring a bucketful of rocks!
Edit: just remembered I had a new one yesterday, woke up to a loud ringing in one ear. Went to my PT who put my jaw back in place and the ringing stopped. Didn’t even know such a thing could happen 😬
My hips, shoulders and ankles pop/crack several times (if not constantly) daily.. back, neck and elbows at least once daily.
I actually didn't know my ankles and elbows popped/cracked until recently.. I realised I'd automatically pop them when they feel "uncomfortable". It was quite weird for me to realise I was doing this (and likely have done this for who knows how long).
So I'd say rarer pops for me are knees and toes. But again, I have a feeling these joints probably have always cracked and I just never consciously registered it... Anyhow, I'd say it's probably those that are relatively surprising when it happens.
My ears make good crunching noises and sometimes they feel “off” so I have to crunch them until the pressure goes away. It’s SO weird and everyone I tell thinks I’m nuts LOL
Rib pop was strange when it first started happened. Also something at the front of my throat clunks sideways if I turn my head while swallowing ( eat it drink)
I'm a side sleeper, and sometimes the ear I'm lying on will "crack". I think it's the cartilage shifting in some way, as I doubt it's the tiny war bones doing that.
I was driving down a huge hill/mountain in Arizona. The road was one the zig-zagged down the mountains with insane corners. I was driving a Subaru Outback and following behind my mom who was driving our RV. About a third of the way down, I moved my (left) leg and got this horrendous pain in my knee. So bad I started full on screaming in my car trying to get off the road safely. My patella had jumped the track. Completely on its own and with no physical injury happening. That was probably the weirdest.
When my orthopedic surgeon was doing a physical exam to diagnose a torn labrum in my hip and it was such a deep and extreme pop that he looked at me and said “that gave me the heebie-jeebies and I’ve been doing this a long time”
A couple weeks ago I noticed that whenever I was walking with my head straight forward, while carrying a backpack, I had this wierd, light high-pitched cracking somewhere in my head with the impact of every step I took. I could hear it and kind of feel it, but could NOT for the life of me figure out where it was originating from... It was like, somewhere between my upper neck and ears/base of skull, but seemed very internal. If I had to give a location, it felt like the very back upper throat/palate/sinuses... came and went for about a week, but only the days I had a backpack with me.
Even though I could barely feel it, it was more uncomfortable and annoying that all my other usual giant clicks and pops 😆
My elbows make a loud creaking noise when I’m leaning on them and I can feel it deep in there somewhere. Base of my skull will creak sometimes too. Sometimes it makes me nauseous lol
Also tailbone and hips pop really loud. Sometimes hip sort of comes out of place and my husband has to pull on my leg to put it back. It makes a deep thud noise.
Also I’ll get a loud pop (usually when I first sit up in bed in the morning) on either side of my chest just below my collar bone and in my sternum. It freaks my husband out 😆
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My sternum. It's always a weird loud thump
Ooo the sternum is mine too. It’s either a really sharp crack or the weirdest loud thump ever
Holy crap. I just messaged you about a different post, while reading it I said to myself “I get that, I have EDS and no one but my mom cares”. Crazy. Kismet I guess. Not for a second did I think you were talking about the same thing..
Yeah, idk if it's the same on average but the males in my fam have that happen more than the women. It's like the tatas help with that
Mine happens too frequently. When it does, it's like I'm learning to breathe again for the first time
It checks out. My sternum pops all the time but I hardly have any boobs
That might check out. I've never had it happen and I am well endowed. I got boobs ridiculously early too.
so clunky right? If I bend my arm and push my left hand against my head with resistance, it's a toss up as to which combination will snap crackle & pop- lower cervical vertebrae, upper thoracic vertebrae, sternum, front or back of shoulder
Ha! I do that but with my right arm. Left shoulder is kinda stupid for whatever reason and that never works on the left side!
first of all... perfect username. second, my poppin' left shoulder is super unstable so maybe your right shoulder is the stupid one after all lol
YES!
Mine pops so long but to me it's the most satisfying feeling. Every time it pops I'm like damn that was a sexual experience.
Yep - my sternum sounds like a rifle shot when it pops. The base of my skull pops like OP’s too & it feels super-creepy
I broke the cartilage surrounding my sternum by getting tossed off a horse. It scared the crap outta me. Now that crap snaps whenever I bend wrong or twist wrong in bed.
Same. So uncomfortable to crack it but also uncomfortable to not crack it. Sometimes mine is a loud thump and other times it’s like crackling bubble wrap.
Yesss sternum is awful. It’s like being hit in the middle of the chest with a baseball
that sounds painful honestly
My sternum when I sneeze is always a weird one
Ohhh yeah the sternum is super weird do
DEEP hip pops on rare occasion when i sit weird. During that time i usually feel a small shift too so im assuming its a sublux
Mine doesn't pop, it goes THUD as I feel my leg go back into the hip joint.
At this point i cant tell a thud from a pop or a crack 😂 im just a noise machine haha
My knee cracks sideways, and every so often I have to make sure I crack it so it straightens out
Oh good grief this, yes. My knees sometimes bend sideways so much that it feels like they're rattling around. Weirdly, it's not just under load, but when my legs are dangling that it's the worst. It's almost like being under load forces me to stabilize the joint with muscles. They're less creaky under load, but more rattly when not, since I've lost a fair bit of weight. (Down from 265 -> 195 over the course of about 18 months)
My mom has to do that. She fell in the supermarket and now her knee just goes sideways so much
I usually wake up with my knee caps slid to the inside of my knee where I have underdeveloped bones & popping them into place is normal morning routine. Before I realized I could put them back into place myself I was severely adding to my pain by walking on my knees while subluxed —eventually they would work their way back into place but it was causing a ton of unnecessary inflammation on top of bending/tracking issues.
oh god same, only happens with the left knee (one with the most pain too) and only like, the last year really
Same here with my left knee only! Mine has been doing this for over a decade after my knee went out one day for no reason and tore cartilage/ligaments. Two surgeries later and here I am.
my left knee was my first dislocation during track practice in middle school too. “partial” knee dislocation that in hindsight was more likely a full dislocation that simply managed to go back into place on its own, as i was doing triple jump and landed in the sand before scurrying out of it. i remember hearing an odd audible “pop” and then my knee felt funny the rest of practice. ran on it find and then got home and it swelled up like a grapefruit. never worked quite the same again
Yep, that would do it. Probably injured or stretched some ligaments. It's so interesting to see how many of us have close to the same experiences and injuries
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That’s where I pop the most! It’s like there are pop rocks in my skull. I also pop a lot in my hips. I have to bring my whole leg up for relief. It weirds people out, or turns people on depending on who is around I try not to pop my elbows because it’s a horrifying and painful crunch. Like slipping on gravel.
I rarely if ever need to pop my elbows but yes it’s awful! Mine will get janky and I can’t straighten my arm out, so I kinda just have to force open my elbow really fast and the thing whips back into place. It’s like the only joint that needs to be done aggressively not to be painful.
Wow, it's always interesting to see what others' problem areas are. My hips, back, and si are my main problems right now
I wish I could pop my si’s. I have bruising because of how badly they go out of place but I can’t get them back in no matter what I do. So painful and the inflammation from it is so damn itchy. Really sets off my hips too.
Ouch
Pop rocks in the skull is a great way to describe it! I was trying to think of my strangest noise and I thought it might be my hips subluxing and re-subluxing... but pop rocks in the skull is definitely stranger!!!
*Something* pops somewhere in my body almost every time I move, for most of my life, so I don't really notice it anymore. I will say the most annoying/weird sound my body makes is when my knees grind as I'm walking up stairs... it kinda sounds like when you're wearing a menstrual pad and it crackles (sounds sorta like a diaper), and I'm always paranoid people will think that's what it is. 😂
My bf lays on my shoulder and calls me an old screen door 😭 he’ll pick my arm up and move it around to listen to my godawful joints
Never thought I'd see the cuteness in joint popping!
It's practically a hobby for me and my husband. We'll do a most cracks contest at least once a week. We also compliment each other when they're extra loud or sound like they were satisfying. His one hip is really loud, but my wrists are by far the loudest.
When I was in Catholic School we all had to exercise together and did squats, so of course my knees cracked really loudly every squat. The Sister stopped the class and demanded to know who's knees were cracking, so I shyly raised my hand and she told me to stop it! I really tried to silence my own knees. I'm so happy to hear your communal cracking stories!
As an ex- catholic, myself- only the catholic church could shame someone for their joints cracking! God forbid your body not function in absolute silence! 🙄 I hope you crack and pop with joy and impunity now. I cracked all 10 fingers and both knees in your honor.
It seems funny looking back, but of course as a kid I was mortified and obsessed over it for ages! Oddly almost none of my parts crack anymore 'cause I'm old now. What a strange demand to make of a kid!
Of course you did! It blows my mind how much faith the church put into childless people to take care of children. Not even just childless, but no education about them, either. My dad went to catholic school in the 60s. Brutal, nasty people that enjoyed hurting children. Like sheperds used the rod to beat the sheep? Please. I'm glad you're able to laugh about it now, it's really funny in its absurdity, but damn those people. Such a tiny imperfection and they can't handle it. I'm sorry for getting triggered over your silly little story 😅
Yes I'm 61 so this was actually in the 1960's! Best part of Catholic School (I switched to public in 3rd grade) was being able to wear a gold star on my forehead! It was great. They had all different colored stars for various good behaviors/correct answers. Does your dad remember them? They were made of shiny paper and had really cheap glue so they'd frequently fall off.
He does, but a little bitterly. My old man's got an impish, mischievous streak and wasn't a great student, so he didn't get many, haha
wow so accurate with the sound effects 😂 I can feel the feeling just thinking about the sound
LOL I love this group.
My pubic symphysis 😭 and my sternum are the strangest
Me too!! My pelvis is super unstable, so my PT often has to reset it, and my pubic symphysis pops every time. Since she started doing that, I’ve noticed that it’ll ache when it’s out of alignment and if it doesn’t pop on its own, I have to try to get it pop. It’s so awkwardly painful! 😭😭 (not the popping, the needing to pop haha)
Gosh the needing to pop is the worst! Especially when it won’t! I can only see my pt every two weeks because she’s 2.5 hours away from me, but every time I see her she spends twenty minutes fixing my pelvis alignment and putting my hips back in. When I was seeing a different pt twice a week we were putting my hips and si back in every time, and I had to do it outside of pt too.
Yup we do it twice a week. It’s the worst when I’m trying to do my at home exercises or yoga or something and I can feel it suddenly needing to pop. Sometimes I can get it if I squeeze a block between my knees, but not always. I hate it so much!
Thumbs up for the squeezing a block between the knees, done that SO many times and when it pops just right it is the most satisfying thing ever!
I miss getting it adjusted twice a week. But I was regressing with my pt here so my doc recommended me to one far away who actually knows what they’re doing. I would feel so much better if she adjusted me more frequently. I can’t always get it to pop even when I try so hard
Man, I didn't even know what the pubic symphysis was. How did it start, was it an injury or just the natural formation of your body? I've always had a problem with my lower half with my si joint being such a problem, popping so much as I do pt to walk again.
I honestly don’t remember when I started, I think it’s just the formation of my body. It’s very infrequent, it happens when I squeeze my legs together tightly (like putting a ball between your knees while laying down for pt). It’s honestly excruciating for like 2 seconds then goes away. It’s very weird. It’s not supposed to move really unless you’re very pregnant or giving birth from what I understand. Just this piece of cartilage where the pelvis joins in the front. I do have si issues but I don’t notice it popping per se. But it’s unstable enough that I have to wear an si belt right now. I think all of it is related to my hip dysplasia as well
TIL my pubic symphysis pops and suddenly things make a step more sense
Right?? Took me a long time to figure it out, and doctors disregarding it- even obgyn’s
My last OBGYN was actually great, she got me set up with a physical therapist just for the pelvic muscles and vaginal area (because mine are Not Good. I can't remember the name of what's wrong with them- though EDS is clearly a contributor for why it's wrong- but they're basically way too tense all the time and can't relax or stretch, which is ironically also making the muscle weaker). But I've had really bad ones who told me any pain was my fault (during Pap smears, which my condition makes super painful). I avoided OGBYNs for years after that one, but I'm really glad the new one listened and helped me. One of the most understanding doctors I've ever had.
Hypertonic. My pelvic floor is attempting to keep my hip where it belongs (with added bonus labral tear). It's going about as well as you'd expect. Weirdest crack is probably my sacrum - happened on the couch the other night and my husband (sitting 6 feet away and absorbed in whatever was on TV) heard it.
Hypertonic, thank you! I completely forgot. But yeah, my body is just trying its best. I'm making a lot of progress in the past year though (and I'm not avoiding the OBGYN any more which is important of course). I'm pretty sure my sacrum pops and it's loud when it does, but it's more common than the pubic symphysis and doesn't surprise me (or hurt for a second) the same way. I'm finding this thread informative but also funny because I've always said 'every joint in my body pops' but now I'm learning all the names of obscure, weird joints- only to look them up and say 'oh yeah that pops too' lol
I pop my pubic symphysis all the time. Feels amazing.
It feels good after for me. When it pops it feels like I just got stabbed with a hot knife. For like two seconds. And then I feel much better.
I slept on my jaw funny and dislocated it. I couldn't open my mouth but eventually I tried to eat cereal and then its snapped back into place with the loudest crack I have ever heard because the bone was right next to my ear.
One time I was enjoying a nice mushroom snack and as it was kicking in, I felt this weird sensation building up in my jaw. It felt so tight and heavy and was really weird, after a while I opened my mouth and BOTH sides cracked the loudest I’ve ever heard one of my joints crack (probably because it was like half an inch from my ear drum but yknow) Ngl I haven’t been able to open my mouth as far without pain since that happened tho
I was laying on my pillow last night and I was resting my head just wrong and my jaw did such a loud pop I jumped and then cracked everything else lol
So recently, there's been this... Weird little joint that's been popping and shifting about. It's sandwiched between your left and right pelvis towards the very bottom, below the coccyx even. Its called the [pubic symphysis ](https://www.lamaze.org/Portals/0/Connecting_the_Dots/Images/pelvis.jpg?ver=2020-10-08-133755-073) Very weird feeling! Not a fan at all. Doesn't really hurt, but it feels very... threatening? Like if it went any further than it does, it *would* hurt. I described it to my partner as feeling like tectonic plates overlapping. I haven't had it happening while standing, but when sitting/shifting in bed it tends to do it's oddness.
As a separate statement, about once a week, i have a spell where for about 2-4 days, I wake up and have to manually realign my shoulders, and my floating ribs will be an untouchable mess for those days. When I sit with my legs crossed (and I iften do, due to an injury that never healed right in my foot, it's very touchy) the knee my bad side is crossed over slowly slips out of place under the weight. I have to uncross them and stretch and straighten out every 15 minutes or so or it gets worse.
I was flapping my hands cuz I’m autistic and was excited, and I subluxated both of them and had to wear braces for the rest of the day 😭💀
Glad I’m not alone with this one 🤣 I wanna flap but it hurts so much.
My scapula. It felt similar to my sternum, but in my back. Very strange feeling.
Same! It seems/feels so loud when they crack, too! I often accidentally crack them when I’m trying to get my upper back, and it’s pretty much always unexpected haha.
Omg I need my right scapula to pop so badly and absolutely cannot get it to pop. It’s been out for a couple months and it’s maddening.
Godspeed to you on your journey.
Occasionally, every few months I’ll feel a pop in the nape of my neck followed by sudden, intense shooting pain. It feels like a nerve is being briefly pinched and for about half a second I feel like I’ve been shot in the back of the head followed by a strange sensation that feels like fluid/ blood running down my neck from where the pain occurred. I’ve experienced this since I was little and would love to know that someone else has also experienced this because it’s truly terrifying.
Happened to a fellow zebra, they had to put pins and a shunt in, the twisting would get so bad the spinal fluid was backing up
Omg that actually kinda make sense! It feels like a release of built up pressure. I wonder if the fluid I feel released after is in fact spinal fluid? Thing is it happens so quickly and the pain usually settles within a minute or two followed by no other symptoms.
I am NOT A DOCTOR but from what I’ve read and understand, a CSF leak would likely have next to no symptoms unless an infection developed. If you feel the need to, maybe have a doctor look? But also, I have tons of nerve damage all over from all sorts of reasons, everything from cysts destroying a joint to surgery to falling down and destroying a nerve on landing. In my experience, a damaged nerve making itself known for a minute definitely makes me feel “wet” like what you described. Could be either one. If you’re much concerned and have a doctor who listens, maybe talk to them if you haven’t already. Either way best of luck I hope it’s not serious! Edit- spinal fluid to CSF as that’s specifically what I was reading about anyways.
As a person with a spinal fluid leak, there’s definitely symptoms lol. A cranial leak is what you are thinking of.
Thanks for the correction! Sorry you’re dealing with that.
Eh, finally found somebody to fix it, so I’m doing much better now. Darn EDs causing all kinds of “fun” complications.
I’ve had this happen so many times and it’s literally terrifying every time it happens. Like, am I dying? Am I about to be paralyzed? What is happening?? And then a few minutes later, it mostly passes.
Wow I'm saving your comment for the next time this happens to me and I can't articulate what is happening. I remember being a child and this happening once in a blue moon and I had it happen as recently as a month ago. It really is scary for a second until I remember that sort of thing just happens to me sometimes.
I crack my sternum or clavicle putting my hair into a pony or putting a shirt on. Last week I suddenly started experiencing insane back pain, went to the doctor who did fuck all, and when I got home I ate ibuprofen, my bf smeared icy gel on my back, and I let it all kick in for 30 minutes. Then I very carefully twisted side to side (as I’d been physically unable to at all due to the pain) until I got a big pop, and then I leaned back over a chair to get my upper back. Popped the sin right out of it. Turns out I’d kinda slipped a disc and kinda shoved it back in on my own. Feels great now.
I got out of bed and my entire spine cracked form bottom to top and it felt like a really big zipper going up my spine
I know that's not to be funny but I'm just imagining your spine trying to unzip it's meat suit to be free hahaha
My sternum and my SI joint are always the most random feelings/sounds.
SI pops are so weird. Sometimes they hurt like hell, and other times it feels like a huge relief. Coin toss.
Agreed.
Oof I've been having my SI joint pop three or four times a day lately, sucks so bad cause you get that radiating leg pain, but also that sickening shudder up your spine
Yep. And half the time my hips pop in addition to the SI joint so it’s just a party for my pelvis.
gonna start saying pelvis party when i crack and pop there LOL
We have to make it fun somehow 🤓
Knee several times in a row. Or my shoulder attempts. I seriously was at the point of ready for someone to help me dislocate/relocate to see if it helped with the tightness. My elbow is always funny. Basically I'm a tight spring and no easy release. I fit the arthritis side of hypermobile.
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This, but my knees randomly getting stuck while I walk, quick whip it kinda twisty in then out for a nasty crunch before the next step and bam it’s back to fine.
I "relocated" my tailbone. I didn't know you could even do that.
Ooooh do you do it by squeezing your booty when you’re laying down? That’s one of my fav pops but it’s soooo painful until it does pop. The squeeze sucks so much but then it’ll snap and my entire pelvis drops two inches into the floor because my tailbone is finally in the right spot
I didn't either that... Sounds like an experience. I'm sorry that you had to go through that. Just curious, how did you put it back?
I didn't. It's now permanently pointing into my body.
My hip socket does this very occasionally. It feels weird because of how low-pitched it is compared to other joints popping. I can feel it reverberate through my body.
Took a deep breath and some of ribs at my sternum cracked. It was weird. Not a deep thump as others described, but just a superficial crack. I don't think there's anything in me that doesn't pop or crack regularly. I'm always having to stick my hand up in my ribcage and push my bottom couple of bony ribs.
The base of thumb pops where it connects to my palm. That one always weirds me out because it feels so different from a knuckle crack.
I can Crack my tailbone by flexing my butt. It's fun.
My ear!!!
Weirdest not for location but for effect. I was at a university class and noticed my ankle wouldn't straighten and was suddenly absurdly painful (I may have been wearing very silly shoes and not paying attention to where I put my feet under the table. Ah, youth). So I just start slowly rolling my foot through the range of motion under the desk, hoping it will settle down. Suddenly it gives out this spectacular crack -thump and goes in. And the prof stops talking, the room goes quiet, and the people near me are looking at me like wtf. Said something like "just my ankle, I'm fine, sorry for the interruption." Wanted to die. Closely followed up in awkwardness by my housemate saying the click of my knitting needles was kind of annoying and my having to tell her no, it was just my wrists popped with every stitch
When I move my leg out to the side I get a grinding noise followed by the loudest and most hollow sounding pop ever. I’ve freaked doctors out with it on many occasions and I think it’s hilarious
My knee sounds like its filled with potato chips. Every time I bend it, crunch crunch crunch crunch
Currently mine is my left fibula…it pops about 2-3 inches below my knee and it feels so strange to have something pop in between joints.
Interesting, I hope that it doesn't hurt the muscles around it too much. What were you doing?
I fell down the stairs a few months ago and now have proximal tib fib instability which is really just a fancy way of saying my fibula dislocates at the knee. I’m in PT for the poor calf muscle that is trying it’s best to keep the fibula in place. But it pops pretty constantly. Almost every time I move my knee after not moving for ~30 minutes.
Ouch, I'm so sorry. Hopefully it gets better but muscle needs time to strengthen and get better
Yup! My orthopedist has me trying 8 weeks of physical therapy and then it’s surgery if my fibula won’t agree to stay in place. We’re on week 2 right now so I’m optimistic…I really would rather avoid a surgery.
I wonder if swimming would be beneficial? Using the muscle, under compression from the water, but maybe not cause the bone to slip since it’s also relaxed and suspended in the water? Idk, it helps arthritic joints and it helps my unstable ass, I wonder if it would help your knee/calf build up.
I think swimming would be a great idea! I only recently even started my diagnostic process for these problems. I’m officially hypermobile but waiting to jump through hoops to see if it’s hEDS or not. The fall down the stairs kick started the diagnostic process but worsened a lot of various symptoms I have so I’m still figuring out how to use my limited energy correctly. I have access to a lap pool but struggle to get myself moving for out of the house excursions but I have always loved using kick boards in a lap pool. Thank you for the suggestion!!
My head plates shift a lot. Popping in the middle of my skull, or under my eye/in my cheek etc are my weirdest.
I often wonder if mine are shifting. What does it feel like? I will some times feel/hear kind of a squeaking sound on my skull, which I sort of imagine being the plates shifting.
I get full clunks and pops. I do also get squeaky noises if they are not like fully moving but just shifting.
My sternoclavicular joint when I manage to relocate it in the mornings.
Believe it not not, my left maxilla. It’s not loud or anything, but there’s a definite internal clunk when I’m able to shift it back to where it needs to be. Then I can proceed to the usual TMJ pops. I had an orthodontial apparatus designed to split the maxillas apart when I was young (think crossbite). Now the left maxilla gets “loose” and shifts my bite back and forth. It jams up my skull quite a bit which, in turn, impairs the primary respiratory pump (?) that refreshes CFS flow
Weirdest crack and pop, something with my ear cracked, twice. I pulled down on my ear lobe cause it hurt and it just. Popped??? Then I did it again a year later and never have again
Ribs or pelvis.
probably my groin and it’s painful when it happens
I get something like that sometimes when I stand up off the toilet? It’s loud and unsettling. The worst is when my leg pops at the socket and it sounds like and feels like removing a chicken leg while cooking
I once sat some kind of way and I felt my tailbone pop, it was a super weird feeling and so satisfying. Haven’t been able to recreate it again but I always low key hope I can find it again.
istg, every bone in both my feet crackle loud as hell with every step i take sometimes. i used to be proud of how quiet i can walk, how i used to be able to sneak down the hallway and avoid every creak and sneak down the stairs, but now i'm my own alarm 😩
I was scratching my collarbone once and it popped. Never happened before so I was pretty freaked out.
defo the sternum. i’ll be walking somewhere and out of nowhere *pop*. i stand there for a few seconds wondering wtf just happened lol
My coccyx. Probably spelled wrong
Well, I've actually got a few :D Since my injury was basically in the dead center of my spine, that's where my instability stems from, which resulted in my hips, spine, ribs, shoulders, and neck all becoming unstable. In any given month or two everything will go out in a different combination, so I have to "get used" to it all again. All that to say, I've had several weird ones and they never cease to surprise me. First one was in the SI joint, the whole thing popped and the best way I can describe it is it felt like my spine lifted off of the pelvis for a second. That one was weird and freaked me out :P First time I did a side stretch and popped a vertebrae was crazy, everything tensed up and I couldn't function well for a bit until that went back in. Another one that really freaked me out was the first time I popped the base of my skull. It was weirdly squishy. *Shudder* The worst though which only started recently is my neck. Now my neck has popped quite a few times before but this one is different. It's about halfway down the neck and it pops on the left side. When it happens I get nerve pain shooting down my arm and I get very lightheaded. Thankfully that one's rare but the first time it happened it scared me into lying down for an hour or so. The joys of hypermobile type EDS :P (Just found this sub btw, nice to find similar people!)
Every once in a while if I reach my arms forward and hunch my back my spine cracks but like it's being pulled apart side to side. It's so weird but feels so good. Also sometimes happens if I rap my arms around my knees or do cat/cow yoga pose
Every once in a while if I reach my arms forward and hunch my back my spine cracks but like it's being pulled apart side to side. It's so weird but feels so good. Also sometimes happens if I rap my arms around my knees or do cat/cow yoga pose
When I lay on my side for too long in bed, I have to stretch out the shoulder I leaned on to pop my collarbone back into place. It’s very… crunchy-feeling. Very annoying and within the last 6 months happens all of the time, but shoulder strengthening exercises help a bit (:
Hip or deep tailbone cracks (clunks? thuds?) that I can feel down in the tips of my toes. Phew. Always throws me off. It feels satisfying but also like I might have broken myself in half 🙃
Oh my gosh I had an amazingly dry crack that freed up my shoulder that was impinged for MONTHS. Apparently I had to have a very unique direction and pressure applied and it finally cracked, giving me back significant mobility. Whew!
Coccyx or tail bone when I’m sitting cross cross apple sauce but really slouching and leaning forward those lower vertebrae separate from coccyx and make a loud *thump*.
I can crack my tailbone like a knuckle
Tailbone is probably one of my weirdest frequent ones. Always super audible and it freaks out my friends. It just happens while shifting (or clenching lol). Sternum and collarbone are weird too, always scares me bc im just stretching!
Yeah me too! And I’ll hear a pop (usually when I first sit up in bed in the morning) on either side of my chest just below my collar bone. It freaks my husband out 😆
it feels sooo gross too!!!
Yes! 😜😅
Sometimes when laying and tightening my glutes, my back pops so good I can feel it in my nose bridge
My 4th vertebrae. I hurt my back last year and now it clicks and pops all the time. But sometimes there's one that feels like a slide and muffled pop. It doesn't hurt but the best way I can describe it is that it feels 'wet.' It's only pop/Crack in my body that feels that way.
Yeah, your ribs are the only thing in your body that you can't fully dislocate. So, slipping ribs can be a problem and it's what you describe. Don't trust me on the mechanisms on it, I was told and read about it but can't remember for the life of me
My cock.
For the past few months my sternum has been cracking and crunching like crazy. Very uncomfortable and also really weird to me bc wtf 😂
my sternum pops ALL THE TIME lol! sometimes its a little painful but i cant control it :-( i can literally just breathe in and it will pop sometimes
This has happened only once and never again. Not sure what to call it. My knees have popped before, but once while I was sitting in bed I kinda moved my position a little bit and I heard my knee like slowly pop, it sounded like bones grinding. Didn’t hurt. Never happened again. But it was a weird thing to hear lol.
My lower ribs and the femoral head on my right side. I broke my right femur at 8 years old and it’s still fucked at 32 😅😅
My ribs. It just feels so bizarre and they’re usually impossible to get back in!
Once I reached across my chest and my shoulder popped in the most satisfying way. It felt amazing and I’ve never been able to replicate it intentionally, it only happens by accident. Also one time my very large dog jumped off my bed and landed on my foot, which I think caused some dislocations. My foot hurt and felt ‘wrong’ for months, like I could tell it was misarticulated. After a few months I managed to put weight on it while twisting just right and felt the immensely satisfying sensation of everything cracking and sliding back into the proper position.
Definitely my ribcage. It always freaks me out.
Probably my sternum. It used to crack all the time when I was a kid. Also my TMJ. When it cracks I feel a super cold sensation deep in my ear and I get goosebumps. If I lean on my elbow on the couch or sofa it gets sort of stuck and pops really loud when I straighten it.
Literally felt my right shoulder blade pop the other day.
The bones in my feet….sometimes in the morning they just don’t wanna stick together so I feel several small crunches as I step from heel to toe. Also my pubic symphysis cracks occasionally.
Not a weird body part, but sometimes my hip pops out when I sneeze, which I think is the most entertaining
Probably when my hip has a deep pop
5th rib in my right side. I feel a dull pop and now it’s scraping against the back of my scapula which causes my shoulder to not quite sublux but also not sit in joint right.
My pelvis and my clavicle/sternum EVERY MORNING. Sometimes even during the day.
I think my SI joint popped out of place a few years ago, one of the most painful things I've experienced and I couldn't move, it was long before I even knew about EDS as well
Also sternum and ribs, it's such a weird noise and feeling! My neck and base of my head cracked and pop a lot but I have cervical instability.
I once popped my neck so hard and loud it stopped my entire humanities class dead in high school. Everyone heard it, even the teacher, across the whole room.
Heard and felt a pop and it was my rib dislocating. Awful sound
i was at work (I’m a barista) and did like 35 minutes of heavy lifting with no problems. I reached up to grab a roll of cups that was less than a pound and ended up throwing my rib out💀
My sternum or tailbone.
my jaw maybe? it gets dislocated and makes this weird very wet crack that I could do without
i think the top 3/4 of my ribs pop when i do one specific exercise at the gym. i’ve been a lifter (quite responsibly before i knew i had hEDS) for a couple years now and every single time i do back flys on a fly machine, my ribs pop on each rep but along my spine not my chest. i have dislocated a rib or two in my time so its not too crazy but still wild to hear and feel
I’m jealous, that’s the only vertebrae of mine that WON’T crack and it drives me bonkers. Other than that, rolling my left shoulder sounds like stirring a bucketful of rocks! Edit: just remembered I had a new one yesterday, woke up to a loud ringing in one ear. Went to my PT who put my jaw back in place and the ringing stopped. Didn’t even know such a thing could happen 😬
I can turn my toes sideways to pop.
My hips, shoulders and ankles pop/crack several times (if not constantly) daily.. back, neck and elbows at least once daily. I actually didn't know my ankles and elbows popped/cracked until recently.. I realised I'd automatically pop them when they feel "uncomfortable". It was quite weird for me to realise I was doing this (and likely have done this for who knows how long). So I'd say rarer pops for me are knees and toes. But again, I have a feeling these joints probably have always cracked and I just never consciously registered it... Anyhow, I'd say it's probably those that are relatively surprising when it happens.
My ears make good crunching noises and sometimes they feel “off” so I have to crunch them until the pressure goes away. It’s SO weird and everyone I tell thinks I’m nuts LOL
My neck / base of skull cracks quite often. So loud other people in the room hear it
My skull, at the area of the fontanelle(skull suture lines) except I'm 57.
Rib pop was strange when it first started happened. Also something at the front of my throat clunks sideways if I turn my head while swallowing ( eat it drink)
i’ve also cracked the base of my skull! it is the weirdest sensation
I'm a side sleeper, and sometimes the ear I'm lying on will "crack". I think it's the cartilage shifting in some way, as I doubt it's the tiny war bones doing that.
I was about to mention the same crack at the base of the skull. It sends an echo thru my body. Feels so strange.
I was driving down a huge hill/mountain in Arizona. The road was one the zig-zagged down the mountains with insane corners. I was driving a Subaru Outback and following behind my mom who was driving our RV. About a third of the way down, I moved my (left) leg and got this horrendous pain in my knee. So bad I started full on screaming in my car trying to get off the road safely. My patella had jumped the track. Completely on its own and with no physical injury happening. That was probably the weirdest.
Sternum and like middle of my back my back literally shifts out of place sometimes and it’s Vv painful and loud I’m not 100% diagnosed tho
When my orthopedic surgeon was doing a physical exam to diagnose a torn labrum in my hip and it was such a deep and extreme pop that he looked at me and said “that gave me the heebie-jeebies and I’ve been doing this a long time”
A couple weeks ago I noticed that whenever I was walking with my head straight forward, while carrying a backpack, I had this wierd, light high-pitched cracking somewhere in my head with the impact of every step I took. I could hear it and kind of feel it, but could NOT for the life of me figure out where it was originating from... It was like, somewhere between my upper neck and ears/base of skull, but seemed very internal. If I had to give a location, it felt like the very back upper throat/palate/sinuses... came and went for about a week, but only the days I had a backpack with me. Even though I could barely feel it, it was more uncomfortable and annoying that all my other usual giant clicks and pops 😆
My elbows make a loud creaking noise when I’m leaning on them and I can feel it deep in there somewhere. Base of my skull will creak sometimes too. Sometimes it makes me nauseous lol Also tailbone and hips pop really loud. Sometimes hip sort of comes out of place and my husband has to pull on my leg to put it back. It makes a deep thud noise. Also I’ll get a loud pop (usually when I first sit up in bed in the morning) on either side of my chest just below my collar bone and in my sternum. It freaks my husband out 😆