The "crack of dawn"
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I started cracking both my thumbs last year. I do this by bending them downwards. It's my latest habit and I would like to stop but it feels nice when I do it. Its the first thing I do in the morning (before I open my eyes) and its like they become stiff and I have to crack them. It sounds different than when people crack their knuckles, I dont crack my knuckles bcos I dont really like the feeling. I have also been cracking my wrists since I was about 10, I am 20 now. But I also had some bad experiences with joints, my knee in particular. Last year I "tore cartilage in my knee" - or so the doctor told me. I still dont know what caused this! My knee became swollen and stiff about 3 times during last year, I couldn't walk for a couple of days each time. I had an arthroscopy in the beginning of this year to remove the torn cartilage but it didnt help. Now my knee still cracks/pops and it is so sore when this happens. I am too scared to go back to the doctor, after the arthroscopy was unsuccessful, what will the doctor be able to do for me this time? If I could, I would stop cracking all my joints, but I can't stop, its like the habit of biting your nails - which I don't do, thank goodness!
I bite my nails (don't start, I've done it since I was a kid and it's a b***h)… but anyway... I would definately go back to the doctor.... I've never had surgery on my knees, but my cartilage is screwed up in them for some reason and the pop and crack all the time when i go up and down stairs, or work out. My doctor recommended physical therapy for me, but instead I just took home some exercises I could do without having to spend the money on phys. ther.
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Well to stop cracking your thumbs - i'm afraid only successful solution i know is 'cold turkey' which i did myself.
The torn cartilage, when removed will make the knee hurt as the bones are now rubbing together.
Oh, when you crack your wrists - you get a popping sound?
I just get a click sound - maybe i am not doing it correctly since i have no refractory period.
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Well to stop cracking your thumbs - i'm afraid only successful solution i know is 'cold turkey' which i did myself.
The torn cartilage, when removed will make the knee hurt as the bones are now rubbing together.
Oh, when you crack your wrists - you get a popping sound?
I just get a click sound - maybe i am not doing it correctly since i have no refractory period.
yeah cold turkey is hard but a good old technique i guess…
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Yes the only way!
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Yes the only way!
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double post
good point though -
I crack everything soon after I wake up, because stiffness is bad then.
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I crack everything soon after I wake up, because stiffness is bad then.
I know what you mean only too well!
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Plus filters and the network makes it all the worse and i have to frequently make sure i am not being monitored and i have no idea if i am being watched by the IT Technician and i have to sit in certain areas etc lol
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So blaze , did you really leave to break your cracking habit and blogging addiction or did school just let out and you have no more computer access.
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No i do not crack my fingers.
I have no blogging addiction - just something to do.
I am not at school always - and oh yeh i get a's
I don't closet crack.
Leave me alone.
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He,He
I knew you were patrolling the forum somewheres
And who are you kidding
I can here you cracking from herejeez man don't you know how to have a little fun
you gots to relax man
were all just foolin around and pokin fun here
have you ever tried that
is everyone in sweden as uptight as you
what gets your blood boiling so fast
Do you drink the really big cans of red bull?It's OK to be a blog addict
joint cracking addict
and OCD is OK too
shyt, it's fun for me…..Blaze " rrrhh rrhhh, rhhh ,rhrhh arrrrr, rhhh, arrrr,, Leave me alone" :evil:
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I don't have OCD and only went on today to see if it was active and oh it wasn't.
I want to live in Sweden i don't.
I don't have OCD neither addicted.
I don't drink red bull as it speeds up the heart and is very bad for you and i do not crack my fingers.
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what do you do then
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If you mean cracking - just my neck but i am trying to stop that too
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see i gotta be that steryotype.
i have ocd
and crack every joint.
but i was cracking before i got ocd so yeaahhhand ive never had redbull
so there
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you also have 4 posts
compared to Blaze at 1463 posts
he has 1 in every forum
and he still posts even though he left on june 4th -
wow. this makes me feel so much more normal..
i have actually been waking up cracking my ankles recently. and i have found out that they feel still and just funny, and so then i can't fall back asleep with them and force myself to get up and walk around. it doesn't always help though. once i get them moving i can sometimes get back to sleep.. but usually not.i really would like a way to stop it.
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I can speak to this to some degree. I'm 31 years old. When I was 13 I tore the cartilage in my right knee. The chances that it's somehow in corelation to any joint cracking is pretty non existent.
Generally torn cartilage is from hyperextension of the knee. Meaning your knee goes back further than it's supposed to, and most situations like that are sports related. When I tore mine I was playing basketball, I went up for a rebound, planted wrong when I came down and my knee went the wrong direction.. I heard a snap and felt immediate pain.
The doctors originally drained my knee (which is still one of the most painful things I have ever had done in my life) and put me in a brace. I wore the brace for sometime in hopes that it would heal normally. After getting out of the brace, there was too much scar tissue and my knee would pop out of place, so I had to have arthroscopic surgery.
In all honesty, it wasn't that bad. It's been 18 years and I haven't had a whole lot of trouble out of that knee. Sure, I have some.. but nothing major. It may get worse, but had I not had the surgery, I can only imagine how bad it would be.