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DD ‘clicking’ herself all the time - this isn’t normal is it?

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RedPandaWanda · 26/12/2021 16:50

My dd is 13.
From the start of the day and throughout she is always clicking her joints. She says that unless she frees herself this way she is in pain/discomfort until she ‘clicks’. She will click her neck both ways, her upper and lower back, hands, feet, ankles, knees etc. She twists and turns until she get relief. You can hear a loud resounding click when she does it.
I have often wondered if joint hyper mobility (maybe even EDS) runs throughout my family as I have many issues as does my dm and grandad had problems too, my ds often has dislocation of his knee but no gp or even a paediatrician took it seriously.
Does anyone else have dc who have to click all their joints? Is this a normal thing? I have no idea!

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RedPandaWanda · 26/12/2021 21:34

Hairyfriend upon reading these responses I think I will definitely try to see a different GP.
YummyPumpkin Dd doesn’t suffer from tics. Her joints hurt and she has to click them to release the discomfort, no tics.

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Bumply · 27/12/2021 00:17

Ds1 is hyper mobile and clicks joints all the time.
He knows I hate the sound, but winds me up by trying to get me to hold onto a finger and do the click for him. Or tries to get mine to click which mine just don't.

JingleRattles · 27/12/2021 13:30

My 19yr DD does this. She once got her finger trapped in a car door and at A&E they discovered from the X-rays she is double jointed. She can bend her thumb back onto her wrist, and she can put her feet on her forehead. She clicks her finger joints all the time. Makes me cringe but she says her joints feel better afterwards.

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