@Advent:

I may know feeling what you're talking about. Would you consider it also a "tingle" or an itch in your joints that is always there, but is somewhat relieved when your mind isn't on it?

The feeling also plagues and bothers me, but it hasn't been too bad lately dut to my not focusing my thoughts on it.

I get the feeling most in my left big toe joint, but it may spread to my other toes, fingers, knees, and hip/leg joints when I think too closely about it.

Unfortunately that doesn't work for me. Eventually my joints force the matter on me. Especially when I'm trying to sleep. If I'm any future indication for you, I'm quite sorry. I already mentioned how far it's spread. Sometimes it's even so deep along my spinal column that I simply can't do anything for it. It's uncrackable. I still half expect to cause some severe damage to myself just from the way I'm forced to violently crack my neck.

Thank you very much for those options. I'll start trying them immediately and update any changes.

I'm 28 years old and just as of a few years I've felt intense discomfort. No pain, really, but a pressure build up, I suppose. A sort of warm, dry feeling that demands I crack my joints. At first my upper back, then my neck, followed by my knees.

It's been getting worse and worse, to the point that I find real pain preferable. I can't sleep at night. I wind up twisting and contorting myself harshly in any way possible just to crack the joint, sometimes even blugenting my back and knees for any sort of relief at all.

I find that drinking copious amounts of fluid sometimes helps, as does taking multivitamins. But it's not an end all treatment. And there are plenty of nights it doesn't work at all. So I wrench my body as hard as I can, staying up twisting and cracking in the hopes of rest and relief.

I get no pleasure from joint cracking. It is in no way habitual in the sense that say, biting your nails playing with your hair is. Stopping isn't an option, it gets far too uncomfortable.

Quite frankly it's getting to the point where I might kill myself to be rid of the condition. I really don't want to. I like life and I have things to do with it, but this condition is driving me in that direction.

I can't find anything online that looks remotely close, save for this forum.
It also sounds like something doctors can't diagnose or treat from what I've read.

Thanks for reading, and any input.