DancingJester, welcome to our growing community!

You speak my words exactly. I have been very annoyed by every doctor I have visited on this. None ever cared or at the worst ridiculed me. As you said, I would already have been happy when I had been given a definite diagnosis. Only when you have a recognized condition, you can know what to expect in the future. For the most part we are all the in the dark.

To start with, JohnnyUtah shared one rather encouraging cracking story on life long cracking.

Can't say the slight diagnosed hyper-flexibility of my joints has ever reduced my joy in life either. 🙂

The only worrysome known side effect of a LOT of e.g. knuckle cracking is lost in grip strength.

But unless you are a professional baseball pitcher this should be no big constraint.