What causes Clicking or Popping in Throat when Swallowing?

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I’ve been struggling with this for almost two months - no pain - just uncomfy at times - only happens when passing saliva not food or water. I was really ill (flu/cold) for like 3 weeks and this started. Any solutions?

Hi everyone, I just started with the clicking sensation on my left side of my throat. It goes away when I look up, eat or drink or when I look to the right side. It is frustrating because one day you wake up with this sensation, and anxiety wants to creep in and all you want to do is swallow. I'm have an appt. to go see the ENT in April. Hopefully it's nothing serious. Everytime I feel it I thank God I have a throat where I can swallow, speak, eat etc. Take deep breathes, and try to maintain calm making yourself worry will make the sensation even worse because everything becomes tense.
Psalm 103:1-5

Relaxing helps a lot, as does finding a position to swallow in which the clicking will not occur. This will help you reduce the amount of worry and attention you give to it. Seeing yourself in the mirror while swallowing and practicing also helps, and amen to Psalm 103:1-5. My sickness has brought me closer to my Lord Jesus. Before, I was lost in sin and forgot about my spiritual life, but now every swallow reminds me of Jesus' call.
Matthew 6:27 Worrying will not solve anything; instead, focus on your faith and trust in God to provide.

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Relaxing helps a lot, as does finding a position to swallow in which the clicking will not occur. This will help you reduce the amount of worry and attention you give to it. Seeing yourself in the mirror while swallowing and practicing also helps, and amen to Psalm 103:1-5. My sickness has brought me closer to my Lord Jesus. Before, I was lost in sin and forgot about my spiritual life, but now every swallow reminds me of Jesus' call.
Matthew 6:27 Worrying will not solve anything; instead, focus on your faith and trust in God to provide.

Yes. Amen @captainj thankfully it went away praise God. I'm glad that you found your way back to Jesus. Seriously, there's no way I can live a day without Him in my life. Now I'm currently in the hospital because I have diarrhea with mucus, nausea, excessive gas. It's been 5 days tried the BRAT it didn't help. They're checking my stool praying to God that it is nothing bad. 🙏

Hi Everyone, I'm in Canada and I've been dealing with this issue on and off for over 6 years now. I've had trouble swallowing all my life, food often getting stuck "down the wrong pipe".

My first "clicking throat" event was triggered during my second pregnancy after swallowing wrong and having to cough out a piece of fruit. I described it at the time as the plucking of a rubber band or guitar string, somewhere on my right side, every time I swallowed. Our doctor, midwife, and chiropractor all took a turn examining me and the chiropractor said she could feel something different on my right side near the hyoid, but had no recommendations. I got a throat x-ray which turned up nothing. Eventually the sensation faded or I got used to it, I don't remember.

Fast forward to now when I thought I might have a tonsil stone due to a feeling at the back of my throat. Washed the stone out but the irritation remained, and the clicking sound/sensation returned full force, now feels more like cartilage grinding than elastic. I have also been suffering from chronic acid reflux and fluid/plugged ears for months. I feel the clicking so strongly that I haven't been able to eat and rely on a few bites and some Ensure-type drinks most of the day. If I have eaten more, by the end of the day the side of my neck/throat feels sore.

Wait times here for an ENT are extremely long and my doctor knows I have anxiety, so I am worried I will say the wrong thing or not be taken seriously. I am not sure what to ask to be done, or if there is literature I can direct my doctor to read if he doesn't know what to do. I also have so many issues in that area (teeth grinding due to sleep apnea, chronic congestion/allergies, jaw clenching) that are co-occurring that I'm afraid that will muddy the waters.

Hello I have recently posted on this page. So I have an answer as to why my throat clicks. I had an appointment with the professor of OTOLARYNGOLOGY at Stanford medical. He notice on my CT scan that one of the greater horns of the hyoid bone is a little elongated and rubbing against my vertebrae when I swallow. My click does not cause any pain whatsoever, and if I turn to one side and swallow there is no click. He did say it is a simple outpatient surgery, the procedure last less than an hour. Where they go in and trim down the greater horn of the hyoid bone that is longer than the other. He said recovery time is usually 1-2 days, he said you biggest symptom after surgery would be having a feeling of a sore throat. I asked him if the clicking would stop once those are trimmed he said it would stop immediately. So now I have an answer as to why this is happening and a cure for it. Hope you guys out there can find a good doctor who can find what is going on and take care of it. I will update once I have my surgery to fix it.

My ENT specialist wants to treat my clicking larynx issue with a superiorlaryngeal nerve block, but I am rather skeptical. Is anyone familiar with this medical procedure? I can’t find any information regarding it being used to treat a clicking larynx. To me it seems mere symptom control, as my ENT specialist doesn’t know what is causing it. I have had multiple CT-scans and the standard reply I get after the scans have been examined, is that the structural abormalities are within the range of normal variation. Should I ask my specialist to perform more tests so as to get to the bottom of what is causing my larynx to rub against my hyoid bone?

Any advice would be more than welcome. Thank you in advance.