Joins Creak And Crack

[teslacoils]

I was doing some Lego and thought I could hear a door swinging to and fro. More investigation showed it was me. I creak when I move.

I've always had a clicky jaw and wrist. Now my knees crack when I bend them fully or do squats at the gym. In the last six months I've noticed my shoulders also grind. If I reach straight up and bring my arms to my side like making angel wings I can hear them grind.

I'm 39. And reasonably active. Good diet. Mix of aerobic and light weights three times a week. Is this just old age? Nothing hurts - just noisy!

Anything I can do?

 

[Chae1]

Fit some grease nipples.

 

[JCMaloney]

If there is no pain or joint swelling with the creaks & cracks its normal.
Known as Crepitus.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I was doing some Lego and thought I could hear a door swinging to and fro. More investigation showed it was me. I creak when I move.

I've always had a clicky jaw and wrist. Now my knees crack when I bend them fully or do squats at the gym. In the last six months I've noticed my shoulders also grind. If I reach straight up and bring my arms to my side like making angel wings I can hear them grind.

I'm 39. And reasonably active. Good diet. Mix of aerobic and light weights three times a week. Is this just old age? Nothing hurts - just noisy!

Anything I can do?

Join the club, my knees (when kneeling on our wooden floor) make a hell of a sound
Some of the flaxseed/ healthshop type of supplements seem to help, I can't be sure which ones as I take a few different ones
I take kelp, flaxseed and fish oil ones from time to time, I think the kelp ones level my head and the flax and fish help the body.

I kinda expect my body to fail, as I've broken and dislocated nearly everything but I am only just behind you in age.

 

[teslacoils]

If there is no pain or joint swelling with the creaks & cracks its normal.
Known as Crepitus.

Oh crep!

 

[Princess Pooper]

Might be the start of osteoarthritis, my knees are going, scrunch like hell when I'm bending them with weight on, swollen too though, fluid in the joint, been given some physio to do.

 

[marco]

i read somewhere that boron deficiency is a leading cause of arthritis. highest rates are in countries with low natural levels of boron in the soil.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Do you consume a reasonable dose of vitamin C?

 

[bazza3034]

Your body stops producing natural lubricant after 30 or so that why your joints creak so you need to eat more fish or codliver oil tablets daily

 

[nails]

I was doing some Lego and thought I could hear a door swinging to and fro. More investigation showed it was me. I creak when I move.

I've always had a clicky jaw and wrist. Now my knees crack when I bend them fully or do squats at the gym. In the last six months I've noticed my shoulders also grind. If I reach straight up and bring my arms to my side like making angel wings I can hear them grind.

I'm 39. And reasonably active. Good diet. Mix of aerobic and light weights three times a week. Is this just old age? Nothing hurts - just noisy!

Anything I can do?

 

[steveR]

Wasnt there some rather mad folks convinced that spraying WD40 on their joints worked.....

I will remain to be convinced on that one.

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

I've seen the proof of WD40 working, but the old boy was in his nineties and wasn't too worried about the long term effects. He was more mobile though.

 

[steveR]

I've seen the proof of WD40 working, but the old boy was in his nineties and wasn't too worried about the long term effects. He was more mobile though.

As long as he was happy...

Not sure is sounded like a proper scientific assessment mind!

 

[anzani]

I've seen the proof of WD40 working, but the old boy was in his nineties and wasn't too worried about the long term effects. He was more mobile though.

Used to get an old girl come into stores and buy it for her knees. Sure its the cold aerosol effect rather than the water content!.

 

[Sharpy]

I've seen the proof of WD40 working, but the old boy was in his nineties and wasn't too worried about the long term effects. He was more mobile though.

The fish oil in it perhaps?

 

[JeepJeep]

Munch the Fish Oil... I seize up when not taking it. Feel brighter and more awake and not seized when on it.

 

[jimred]

Just the beginning. Prepare for it to get worse.

 

[Exfarmer]

If there is no pain or joint swelling with the creaks & cracks its normal.
Known as Crepitus.

Isn’t that the “ must buy loo roll syndrome”