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Does anyone else experience these problems. Recently my back cracks seems like on every vertibre and when i stretch my back it hurts more on one side (muscles are more stiff on one side). When my back cracks and stretch out seems like i twitch shortly after.
Still wicked tough to swallow. Anyone else with these symptoms?
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Might want to visit a good chiropractor or massage therapist. If your muscles are tight the lymph can't drain as well and you end up with more pain in other locations.
Note that you could feel worse after the first massage or adjustment -- may need to go for 3 or 4 weekly treatments to work out all the kinks and then less frequently after that.
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I get back cracking all the time, when ever I lean back I get a slight crack and it is very stiff. The muscle on the right side of my spine is very painful and stiff too.
As said above, you might benefit from Lymphatic and other massages.
I will hopefully be having this done soon, when I feel a little better.
Good luck.
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I have cracking all over including back,neck. I also have the twitches all over. It's hard to tell if they're related to the cracking. Lots of twitching in ribs in the back.
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A chiropractor may be able to explain the "cracking" & muscle twitching. Due my lower back muscle spasms on one side, my spine actually beginning to twsist like a cork screw. I too saw it on the X-rays he took.
My Chiropractor has been working with the muscles rather than the traditional spine adjustmments..
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I have had severley tight muscles. The only way I was able to control it is through Flexeril, a muscle relaxer. After that, physical therapy that focused on hands on work to relax the muscles worked.
Before that I tried the pt and massage and it just made things worse. I believe the reason the Flexeril helps is that it is somewhat a neurological issue causing the muscles to tighten.
I also have muscle twitches. Magnesium helps reduce that. Very large doses, 1000 mg or more. You know when you take too much because you get very soft stool. Then you cut back until it's "comfortable."
I also do yoga regularly to help keep my muscles mobile. It took a while to get to the point where I was no longer completely immobile two days after yoga.
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Mine has really reached it's peak. My back cracks easily, neck too, elbows pop out, I can pull my wrists out about an inch. It gets so bad that when i am walking around, the muscles all tighten up, and I have to lie down on the floor and crack my own back and neck. I learned how to do it at chiropractic. The relief is amazing, but it doesnt stop. I use TENS for it, and massage. They both help, but I still crack all day everyday and twitch too...but magnesium shots stop the twitching totally.
Anything stop the cracking or explain it? i am all ears!!
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Alrighty, I'm going to ask some questions of you. As someone mentioned above, my spine spirals, I have scoliosis. SO not only does it curve, I have a lot of rotation. I actually have an appt this morning to be revaluated by my chiro to make sure that my rib cage is not crushing my heart and lungs. I have recently come to realize that I think I also have that costo chondroitis. I have major tenderness on the front side of my rib cage, along where the ribs attach to the cartilage.
You guys mention twitching, which I think I have, but I am not sure, because of the location. My twitching is in the front, in the rib/cartilage area, more to the left, which humps out due to the scoliosis. I think it is twitching but sometimes I worry that it is my heart literally trying to kick it's way out of my chest.
I feel pretty ok first thing in the morning but as the day wears on my chest gets tighter and my back ususally starts aching in the area of my rib cage. I can tolerate that, because I am sure it is due to the scoliosis. What really bothers me, is when the front of my chest starts aching and I get little pressury thumps, and twitch like sensations. Then when I go to bed is when it gets really bad. Sometimes the twitching is so bad, that it feels like I am pregnant in my chest and that someone is moving around in there. Sometimes it feels like my whole rib cage shifts with a clunk. This will go on from anywhere to a few seconds to 15 minutes, then it settles down and I am pretty fine for the rest of the night, an occasional thump every now and then.
I wonder if it is somehow affecting that vagas/vagal nerve. Sometimes when I yawn it will start twitching, and I will get a brief flash of light headedness, which just could be my flight response due to how it feels, I don't know.
I don't really think it is my heart, because, my pulse doesn't seem to change. I may loose my pulse for a second so maybe it is skipping a beat. I don't get nauseous, or sweaty or sick to my stomach or anything when it happens. It usually will just be one, maybe two at a time, then pause and come again in a few seconds, kind of twitch like. It seems to be somwhat eleviated if I can sit up strater, by trying to purposly shift my rib cage. Stretching and chiro visits do sse to help alot too.
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jellybelly,
it sounds like we have the same thing going on, I have on and off costo chondroitis too. My vagus nerve is a mess from the Neurally Mediated hypotension. My back cracks so bad and yes at times feels like thr ribs are crushing me in, i have a curve in my spine too. I need to get going on this and get some answers, its bad the need to crack and be in pain all day! My hips, knees, ankles, neck, oh there that goes, crack all day! have you gotten any answers?
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Your presnetation sounds just like mine. My back still cracks and it is more right sided than left. Get checked for mycoplasma fermentans.
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Condor, saw the chiro yesterday, and he took four xrays of my back. It had been 15 years. Much to our amazement the curve in my upper back was not near as bad as it had been years ago. Thing is, the curve seems to have move up and down. Lower back is a mess, and i can feel it, neck is pretty curvey too. In my rib cage though it appears that my body trys really hard to remain straight and there is more rotation then anything else. That is hard to see in the xray, but you can see it in that the shadows of the spine are not even. When I look down my right side is caved in and my left lower ribs bulge out. Then my right pelvis bulges out and then left is pushed back. Shoulders go opposite of rib cage. Right leg is quite a bit shorter.
Does this explain all the pain and twitching. I don't know. I know as the day wears on, and I get more slouchy, I start having some twitching. Put my rib cage down on the bed and things start just thumping away. Very early this morning, I rolled over on to my stomach, but with more of the pressure, going on to the part of my rib cage that sticks out on the left side and immediately got two kicks/twitches/thumps or whatever they are, then it stopped. Some nights when I go to bed it is better then others, with none, to almost no thumping. So I just don't know. I suppose I should go see my cardiologist just to make sure. I hate going there.
Does your vagus nerve make you get a faint type response?
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Hey1 yes, the vagus nerve inflammation gives me fainting if it severe, if not, dizzy, lightheaded, woozy, weak, its awful. I have NMH already, but now i am going to get these x rays too and see whats up with my back cracking the way it does. Slouchy too...ugh!
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Um... me too, you mean you're not supposed to be cracking and adjusting things all day long?
Everything on me cracks. I'm constantly adjusting things. People cringe when I squat down to crack my knees because they feel wrong; once something cracks it feels better for a short time.
I can't stay still because of it. Going to a movie is near impossible... I have to sit in an aisle so I can get out and pop my shouldersand knees especially. My right shoulder needs to be popped back into place constantly. Even the PT and chiropractor stopped yelling at me for doing it.
I also have a lot of twitching that lately seems to come and go. I couldn't get magnesium to help but it seems better since I started taking Vit D3.
I have a huge spasm that comes and goes on my left side and I feel pretty twisted.
The difficulty swallowing comes and goes. As does the postural hypotension or whatever it actually is. I get the all the blood going to my hands and feet and feel woozy, nauseous, seeing dark spots before my eyes (haven't passed out yet) and find myself whimpering in pain in Walmart, wondering how I'll get back to the car.
Sorry nothing helpful there at all, I was just feeling I wasn't the only one. In the past I've been told I'm hypermobile but everything tightens badly and pulls things out and neccessitates the cracking.
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I also have physical therapist, and she has told me that I have hyperextendible joints. Things just fall out of place. I can bend my thumbs back to my wrists with no discomfort. At the same time my muscles are as tight as they possibly could be and I believe that they actually pull joints out of place. Most of the time my muscles are so tight I can't crack anything. I do try though and at least stretch the muscles as much as they will go.
I use a tennis ball to adjust my own back. I roll it down my spine and if your spine is relatively straight you can put 2 balls in panty hose and role them along each side of your spine. I use just one as pressure to straighten my spine.
Seeing the xrays of my back was VERY helpful even for me. Now I know what needs to be shoved in which direction. Doc showed me just where to place the tennis balls. Then he changed the way he adjusted me, based on some things I asked him to do. Rib cage was all over kind of sore yesterday, but a good sore, like he really managed to move my back into a different position. Good thing is, even though tight, I had no twitching or thumping last night when I went to bed. As much as I don't think it is my heart, it still scares the crap out of me when it starts, cause it is right over my heart and mostly ONLY there.
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Have you heard of Ehler Danlos Syndrome? Symptoms include hyperflexibility and cracking in joints.
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