Lol- I know another person with Lyme and hers does the same thing when she rotates it. And our shoulders do it too. Does this go away with treatment or will it always be there?
Posted by randibear (Member # 11290) on :
mine crunches...
Posted by onbam (Member # 23758) on :
yes.
Posted by lululymemom (Member # 26405) on :
I've had this for many years now. I can't turn my head too far in either direction. I went to the chiropracter last week for another problem and he decided to crack my neck and tried to re-align everything.
Not so sure that was such a good idea. I think if you have inflammation in that area, no amount of re-adjustment will help and in fact could make things worse.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
I agree, lulu. I gave up allowing chiros to pop my neck. Doesn't help and probably makes it worse.
Posted by Hambone (Member # 29535) on :
My hubby calls me Cap'n Crunch. My upper and mid back pop like bubble wrap.
Posted by H8NLyme (Member # 29487) on :
Topic: Does rotating your neck sound like an ad for rice krispies- snap crackle pop?
Yes, yes, yes. I noticed this when my other symptoms started getting bad, confusion, headaches, stuffed ear feeling, blurred vision and eye pain. When I rotated my head there was a crackling noise/ feeling in the back of my neck right in the muscles around where the brain stem leaves the skull. It was very loud and pronounced to me but maybe not to someone else listening. I am told that the source of the sound of knuckles popping is fluid being pushed around. Maybe the same thing. This has mostly gone away with abx treatment along with the headaches.
Posted by lou (Member # 81) on :
I get the Captain Crunch sound when I turn my head, but also when I open and close my mouth.
Posted by H8NLyme (Member # 29487) on :
Have you tried it without the cereal?
Posted by seekhelp (Member # 15067) on :
Yes, it's horrible. I have little mobility in my neck side to side. Ears full all the time, neck stiff, feel off-balance all the time. The crunching has been there for years. It NEVER improves. Posted by stillwater (Member # 30312) on :
I think this symptom is almost universal. I've had it off and on for years now.
I've been fortunate that it's never really been painful. Just annoyning.
Posted by H8NLyme (Member # 29487) on :
I noticed the crunching was not louder but seemed louder when my ears had the stuffed feeling. Can anybody explain the plugged /underwater / change in altitude ear feeling? My ears were clear but felt plugged for months. Once I went on antibiotics that was the first symptom to clear but left me with a constant high pitched tone in one ear. Is it one of the infections attacking the inner ear?
Posted by lymeladyinNY (Member # 10235) on :
I have crunchy neck and have a tendency to get meningitis. It's awful.
Posted by sickntired19 (Member # 21949) on :
I call it crunchy neck syndrome. Very obnoxious!
My whole body cracks and pops and creaks. When I get up and start walking, it is a constant orchestra of joint noise. Totally freaks people out!!
Posted by 4Seasons (Member # 14601) on :
Yes to the crunchy neck. And shoulders.
I do get temporary pain relief from a chiropractor who uses an activator, a handheld instrument that is quick and painless. Wouldn't let a regular chiropractor within ten feet of me! He also adjusts my atlas (atlas orthogonalist) which really helps my headaches!
Posted by Braveheart (Member # 29618) on :
I get this too. I use to think it was a football injury. Funny how much better it has gotten being on meds.
Posted by farraday (Member # 21494) on :
That symptom was one of the ones that tipped off my Chinese acupuncturist in San Francisco that I had lyme disease. He was the first doctor in more than 20 years to suggest I be tested for it.
He is an elderly, very well respected doctor to whom patients from a nearby hospital are referred....patients with cancer, Parkinsons, ALS, et al. He also asked if there was ALS in my family. (Mom died of it, as did my cousin). How he knows these things I have no idea.
He did tell me to be very careful of my neck, to be sure to support it well when I sleep. I use down pillows (in soft allergy proof covers) to shove under my neck before I sleep and it really helps to do that.
But it still creaks like crazy. My ankles creak some, too. So did my mother's. My speech and swallowing problems are very similar to those she had with ALS. But her disease progressed very quickly and caused her death.
I always wonder, in the back of my mind, if she had had lyme disease first. I am told by my LLMD that there is some sort of genetic predisposition for these neuro type diseases.
Posted by Twisted Jon (Member # 31236) on :
Excellent! I mean that I am not the only one to have that...doc says I just have mild case of arthritis forming at base of head/neck..ah well, hope to get to a LLMD soon. Calling another one in York PA on Monday. Wish me luck...
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Very obnoxious!