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Thursday, July 29, 2010
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Ear, Nose, and Throat Disorders |
Painful movement of the hyoid bone09/06/2006 |
All my life I have had my hyoid bone dislodge, or pop out of place and cause excrutiating pain. For many years I was told by physicians that there was no bone in my neck that could pop out. I was told it was everything from extreme head congestion to just "all in my head". But I knew that I could feel a bone and that I could push it back into place and the pain would go away. I finally found a family physician who understood what was happening and explained it to me, but he confessed that he had never actually seen it happen in anyone. As I`ve gotten older, it is increasingly hard to get the bone popped back into place and it is extremely painful to swallow or talk when it is out. I get pain up the jawline to my ear as well. After an episode of this and I finally get the bone pushed back into place, my neck and right side of my face is often sore for a week or more. This always happens on the right side of my neck. My family doctor told me that the left side of my neck muscles must be stronger than the right and when I laugh hard, cough hard, sneeze, yawn or just turn my head wrong and the stronger muscles are pushing the hyoid bone through the right side muscles causing bruising and tearing of those muscles. He doesn`t think there is anything that can be done to prevent this from happening. I think there surely must be something that can be done to prevent this very painful experience that happens without warning.
This is an unusual presentation. I would require a head and neck examination to truly understand your complaint. Information that would be important include wether this happens spontaneously or with pressure applied to the bone. Does it inhibit swallowing. There may be a surgical intervention, but it would cause risk to impertinent nerves in the neck.
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Lee Zimmer, MD Assistant Professor Department of Otolaryngology College of Medicine University of Cincinnati |
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