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Something in my neck is popping out of place

Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) | Last Active: Apr 14 12:20am | Replies (117)

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@haileyhunt234 sorry I’m so late to see this but it just happened really bad and it was very difficult to pop back- BUT I’ve been doing it for myself my entire life as long back as I can remember. How I pop it back in is relax my head and neck, tilt head back straight to your back as far as you can, then with a flat open hand, fingers together, put gentle pressure on the exact area and push in on your neck. Feel around for the bulging bump (node??) and press gently until it literally pops back in. It doesn’t hurt to pop it back- you will get immediate relief of the pain. You’ll feel right again. Unfortunately, today my neck muscles were so tight that I couldn’t lay my head back to get the positioning right and had a bit of a panic attack trying to get it back in place. However, with some emotional support from the hubs I relaxed my body best I could (laid flat in bed with my head over the other side of the pillow) and just began flexing my mouth and jaw muscles until the pain relieved. Then I was able to do the pop back with my hand and just a tiny pop noise happened. Typically when I do this it’ll make quite the noise to me and I can feel the pop much more. Idk wth happened this time but it was not like that, hence why I ended up in this thread!! I just had to try to help everyone out to pop it back in themselves since I’ve been doing it since I was a small child, over 30 yrs now 🫢🫣) I sincerely hope this reaches you and helps as many ppl as possible!

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@sophiahenn thank you again! I only come on this when the neck thing happens to. It gives some comfort and I just read everything over and over again. It’s so weird. This is the only place I’ve EVER heard of anyone experiencing the same thing. I’ve been to the doctor and nothing! I’ve even gone into the emergency room when it first started happening but by the time I got back to do x rays, cause they weren’t understanding what I was saying and thought I had a chicken bone in my throat, it had already popped back in.