What causes Clicking or Popping in Throat when Swallowing?

This also just started with me. No pain or trouble swallowing. Just weird clicking.. Not every swallow

I always get clicking in my jaw too???

Sorry, my English writing is not good i got same problem a week ago, but after reading almost all the posts i noticed that most of us in this thread suffer from one or all of these problems 1- Anxiety 2- Acid reflux 3- Obsessive-compulsive disorder ( ocd ) and fear of diseases, I do not know whether is this related to these problems or not, but I think It is due to tightening of the neck muscles or tension within the neck organs, and most importantly and reassuringly, it does not indicate a malignant disease. Let us reduce anxiety and no one is perfect.

So about a couple days ago I noticed that when I swallow with my head in a slight down position or just below a neutral position I’ll have a pop or crack sensation just left of my Adam’s apple and I saw someone in here with the same problem when I look up to the right am laying on my back or I can swallow and there won’t be a pop or click I don’t know what it is and has been giving me anxiety thinking it’s the worst I’m 25 I hope this isn’t something serious and just some anxiety that’s making this all bad but should I go to the doctor ? Or should I wait ? I have no pain no tenderness no trouble swallowing just the stupid click at the end of my swallow

Thank you.

Welcome @jaymart, I think if for nothing more than to ease your mind and reduce any anxiety you have, it would be worth a trip to have an appointment with an ENT. There is a video that describes how to release the muscles that attach to the hyoid bone that might be worth a try.

Didn’t seem to really help much and it’s going to be going on a week of this annoyingness what should I do

I've started experiencing a clicking on the top of my throat about 2 weeks ago. I was sitting at my desk and leaned on my hand sitting upright push neck and felt a little pop. After that the clicking started. It went away after a few days. I went to concert and jumped around for a while and it started back and hasn't gone away yet. It seems it really happen when I'm looking straight down or down to the left. When it happens when I'm looking forward it doesn't feel as intense. Curious if anyone can point me in the right direction of some sort of treatment. I should also add before all this started I had about 7 or 8 days of some of the worst anxiety I've experienced.

I also have this happen occasionally, usally for only a few minutes at a time.

I have been with the same thing for 2 month, the click started one day at a dinner, on my sofa eating my legumes and vegetables, I am an athletic and healthy person, but this triggered a state of mental stress to the point of not wanting to eat so as not to feel the famous click . The first days my throat muscles hurt, I felt as if I had a tight shirt around my neck and also when I ate I felt something that was stuck there and would not go down. I didn't want to use google, because everything always points to cancer, which is very close to me and because my mother is suffering from this disease and precisely of the larynx. For a week I felt really depressed, my life had no meaning, I have a beautiful wife and an adorable 4 year old son, they are my life but all this got over me. A month later I went for help, the ENT doctor put a camera up to my vocal cords, he only found reflux. (I have dinner and go to sleep after 15 minutes) I've been taking medicines for 2 weeks and changing my diet, the medicine are protons that suppress excess gastric juices, but everything remains the same, luckily I don't feel the click every time I swallow, only when I have my jaw pointing down or when I eat something very dry. What I have found in common in several comments is: Anxiety, Reflux and there I read about a dental abscess, which I have. These days I am more relaxed and I have felt the click less, but unfortunately every time I swallow saliva I am very overconscious and it makes me sick. I hope we can all work it out.

Hi @paoloremedy1982, Welcome to Connect. You mentioned you went to an ENT doctor and they put a camera up to your vocal chords and only found reflux. @hopeful33250 mentioned a swallowing study reference a Mayo Clinic page here - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dysphagia/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20372033

Have you had a swallowing study before to see if they can tell what the problem is?