@henry88:

I have heard this term before. Recently i knew about this but there still confusion. Anyone having a clear idea about this?

Nope, where did u hear this term? I did a quick google search and saw something about someone having 3 finger joints fused together ?

@henry88:

Past 1 month after getting up from my sleep or when I stand I usually experience an tick tick sounds in my joints. I don't know I am worried about it if at all its a matter of concern. Why its happening so? What may be the reason to occur?

I also get these sort of sounds. Have you been involved in any injuries that may have done this to your joints?

@AnnieF:

Obama won again…:)

Lol who did you vote for, or is that a secret 🙂

@Hoggyboy777:

The description of what we face as crackers is called "crepitus". This is a subsidiary illness to "hypermobility" and "osteoarthritis". Look it up on wikipedia, you should get all your answers there.

Thanks I remember hearing it was called crepitus before myself

@CrackinUp:

Hi all, I'm new and just had to join as it's like I was being described in some posts!

I have always cracked my knuckles, for as long as I can remember, (I'm 31) and clearly remember the first time (about 11 years ago now) that I had the urge to crack my ankle as it just felt uncomfortable, like there was pressure on it. I was standing, washing up, at the time so don't know if the length of time on your feet makes any difference?

Since, I've had the same uncomfortable, pressurised and sometimes achy, feeling on many joints and cracking them relieves the discomfort. Knees, shoulders, wrists, thigh joints, toes and more recently and bizarrely (thankfully temporary though) my ears, where I felt relief once I'd stretched the skin behind them to get a 'pop'! I have also, inadvertently, popped my neck and spine the odd time, so they were involuntary and not conscious actions, suggesting perhaps that one may be predisposed to poppy joints?

I visited a physiotherapist in my early 20's as I was experiencing crunchy sounding knee's and discomfort in them (many years before I started cracking them) and was told I was hypermobile and the pain was because my knee's went back too far whilst standing unless I made a conscious effort to stand with them straight. Just imagine that little bit of give on a Barbie doll when you bend her knee's the wrong way! (that's the nearest comparison I can think of!). So I don't know if hypermobility may be a common factor in those of us who need to or enjoy cracking?!

I also noticed a marked increase, and it was roughly the same time that my larger joints started cracking, following my pregnancies in 2005 & 2007. I'm also sure that I've read somewhere since, that the hormone created during pregnancy, Relaxin, has an accumulative effect, so maybe it doesn't ever leave the body fully, contributing to cracking in some way maybe? Something to think about anyway perhaps, for all those that have had a pregnancy.

I'm just trying to pin down a rational cause as to why joints would suddenly feel like they needed cracking, out of the blue!

Look forward to 'meeting' you all anyway!

Yours

CrackinUp!

Welcome nice to "meet" you too! Any change with your cracking since you started this thread?

@TheCracken:

It never occurred to me that there was a website for joint cracking. I was googling stuff about cracking and found this site.

It has been a near lifelong compulsion, something I have done since I was around 12 back in the early 80's. It started with my ankles. I remember it like it was yesterday. I squatted to pet a cat and my ankles fired off like gunshots. It was startling but I found myself doing it over and over. To this day I still do the ankles but have added a few other joints throughout the years. I do all the joints in all fingers, I do the toes, my neck, knees, elbows, wrists, and back. Once in awhile I get a good sternal crack but I am not trying for those, it just happens. I do it constantly. Mostly my fingers and ankles, the rest less frequently but everything ends up being cracked a few times a day minimum.

It feels like a compulsion and it drives my wife nuts. She feels like she is going to vomit if she hears it so I try not to do it around her at all. I did go through a spell of a few years where I didn't do any of it but it came back again. I am to the point where all I need to do is turn or twist a certain way and it's crack city. I should probably stop, probably….

Welcome! I like the example of gunshots, I always liken the sound to bubble wrap lol

@aerotive:

Yes, especially notice the cold in my toes…have to pop them more often.

Cool thanks for the reply aerotive nice to meet you. Lets try and get this forum active and alive again, together we can do it! 😉

@Elle:

I have the same issue for years now..primarily on the right side, but it will also migrate to the left side..but when it does the urge OTC rack on the right side disappears. So the constant and increasingly maddening urge to crack only happens on one side at a time. I might only have a day of relief but then the whole things starts up again out of nowhere. There are people who post here who seem to enjoy the sensation. I find it depressing and disruptive, and frustrating that I haven't been able to find any answers to this. I am healty, have been tested for lupus, rheumatoid, and lymes…I had lymes over 15 years ago, and was treated..so I don't know if this is connected somehow. I tested negative for the other conditions. I think I eat healthy, but now am looking into supplements. Glucosamine produced no results for me. I exercise regularly and do yoga, but nothing seems to alleviate this. It's not painful, it just maddening because as soon as I crack, the urge to do it again is right back.mthis goes on from morning until night, and I find it hard to sleep because I can't get comfortable. I came and sounds like other people experience what I do, so I guess it's good to know I'm not the only one.

I will have to try yoga

Interesting theory, I've read a lot about the impact of diet

@JawCracker625:

Hello all,
I'm Gina. I'm 26 years old and I've been cracking my jaw and other joins since I was about about 8. At least, that's my earliest memory of doing it. But my jaw cracking is by far the worst! My knuckles are the second worse, but I believe that I have gotten better at cracking my knuckles ( maybe because I'm living in a much warmer climate??). But other knuckles pop less often, and these are typically involuntary. These including my elbows, hips and and ankles. However, my right ankle can be popped involuntary.
The pressure build up in my jaw and knuckles is something that either I have to relieve, or it will eventually build up and crack on its own, or just go stiff. Anyone else having these same problems?
Even my jaw will crack on it's own if I don't relieve the pressure. I'll open my mouth after sitting still for a while and it'll crack even 2 -3 times sometimes.
I do worry that maybe I've got weak joints? I wonder why my jaw is the worst? I'm a stomach sleeper, and i'll even wake up at night with the urge to crack my jaw sometimes.
I worry about my health, what are the long term effects of this? And I worry about my boyfriend going crazy over it. I've told him about my joint cracking, I just hope it doesn't get old for him someday because I can't stop! I feel like I have OCD tendencies, but I control that very much. I guess my OCD is hygiene/cleanliness related. And when I was younger I had this weird OCD typing thing. As a child, driving in the car with my mom, I would type every sign I saw on the road like I was typing on a keyboard. I would also counts steps on stairs and wooden slats and rows ( like on balcony fences), etc. It seemed I counted any weird thing. I still do it today, but it's much more controlled. Does this have something to do with my seeming obsession with cracking my jaw and knuckles??
Sorry for the novel, everyone!! lol. I just have so many questions and have finally found a place were it looks like other people have the same problem! Please help!! Hoping to find something to help, maybe certain vitamins?? Any ideas at all to help relieve frequency of the jaw cracking. It's very distracting, I try to be discreet, but sometimes I just can't help it.
Thanks everyone!!

Hello Gina.

Interesting, I also have obsession problems and I get very obsessed with my joints cracking. And there is much information on this site that links OCD to join cracking.

And yes, joints usually take a while to "recharge" before they crack again.

Welcome to the forum 😄

Definitely my hip. It will bug me for a few days sometime until it will finally pop.
With similar circumstances, my big toe comes in at a close second.