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Clicking Bones
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I'm a bit of an oddball. Years ago, I got obsessed with applying pressure with my other fingers, to my nails. Now and again, I go nuts on releasing the pressure in my ears - usually when ill though, and my hearing is poor compared to usual.
Years ago, one of my toes used to click. Now...the lot of them click - I do it almost constantly - half the time I don't notice I'm doing it. I'm always either clicking them just by scrunching them, or clicking them by using the floor to bend them that little bit further, when I get frustrated when they don't click (I notice this once absent mindedly clicking them and they lose their...click..!) I do it with my hands.
It's an awful habit, one I'm really concerned about because I'm doing it a lot of the time without realising...I do it when I'm stressed out...I do it till it hurts some nights.
How do you get out of such a habit - I need to break it - I don't want severe arthritis in my toes, but I get obsessed with doing it, or don't even realise I'm doing it.
Any suggestions
Years ago, one of my toes used to click. Now...the lot of them click - I do it almost constantly - half the time I don't notice I'm doing it. I'm always either clicking them just by scrunching them, or clicking them by using the floor to bend them that little bit further, when I get frustrated when they don't click (I notice this once absent mindedly clicking them and they lose their...click..!) I do it with my hands.
It's an awful habit, one I'm really concerned about because I'm doing it a lot of the time without realising...I do it when I'm stressed out...I do it till it hurts some nights.
How do you get out of such a habit - I need to break it - I don't want severe arthritis in my toes, but I get obsessed with doing it, or don't even realise I'm doing it.
Any suggestions
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Though I read in this board, no more a few weeks ago, that it doesn't really cause any bad things... I hope that was true...
Thing is with toes I worry about, is that toes help with balance - if I get severe arthritis in me oldie years...balance will surely be impaired by it. Mother keeps cussing me, I don't realise I'm doing it.
I think it was started by my_name, I'm not sure.
It shouldn't be doing you any damage, and like Kentish said it's not a cause of arthritis (though everyone tells you that, I know!).
My mother keeps telling me it and so do my uni friends who go ballistic as I do so much. I find it satisfying too!
Though sometimes my joints hurt afterwards...
So why does my friends' boyfriend's mum have it then? She clicked her bones for years and now have arthritis...
If i dont do it, it starts to hurt and then does it by iteself anyway.
I knew someone who bit my finger when he was a baby and later became diabetic. That doesn't mean biting fingers causes diabetes, does it?
Yeah, thats what I thought it was as well...
I click my fingers alot, but thats about it.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=12915
http://orthopedics.about.com/od/arthritis/f/cracking.htm
http://elfstrom.com/arthritis/knuckle-cracking.html
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/joint.html
http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/901213647.html
http://www.orthop.washington.edu/uw/arthritis/tabID__3376/ItemID__179/Articles/Default.aspx
http://www.orthop.washington.edu/uw/arthritisbasics/tabID__3370/ItemID__180/PageID__348/Articles/Default.aspx
i've never cracked my finger joints in my life and i have arthritis in a lot of them.
there's no connection.
I think it's caused by drugs, as it seems to happen more after a heavy weekend although it does happen now on a semi-regular basis and when it happens the first time, if I open my mouth past a certain point it clicks all the while, and ranges from being slightly uncomfortable to fucking caining!
Is there anything doctors can prescribe for lock jaw or is it a permanent thing?
Mine does, only on one side mind you, and usually only if I'm making it do it.
It's not caused by drugs, but I'd say a fair few do exacerbate it. From what I've read, it's recommended to suck a dummy (or similar) to stop yourself from doing it. Do wonders for your image, that. :thumb:
Aye, same here. It's mostly only if I make it do it (nice little party trick heh) but it does do it on it's own and it gets annoying after a while.
The dummy thing isn't a problem, I'll just have to start going to hard house events.
Though this surely has nothing to do with the rest, as eyelids don't have bones.
spine is the best, just arc upwards and you cna feel it snapping into palce, feels great.