Why are my joints cracking all of a sudden

Content warning: This story contains references to suicide and physical and emotional trauma, which may be upsetting or triggering for some readers.

The only thing that stopped Zoe* from taking her own life was the love she had for her two children.

But the indescribable chronic pain she was experiencing was all-encompassing. And none of her doctors—nearly a dozen—knew what was wrong. Worse, perhaps, they wrote her off, condescended her, passed her around from physician to physician.

Cracking joints to relieve pain

“They washed their hands of me,” Zoe, now 48, tells Well+Good.

After a year of medication and doctor visits and dismissed cries for help, for what was first suspected (never confirmed) to be a urinary tract infection that morphed into excruciating pelvic pain, Zoe found herself speaking with a pelvic floor physical therapist.

She was diagnosed with a hypertonic—tight, overactive—pelvic floor. Now, the healing and treatment could begin.

What is the pelvic floor?

The pelvic floor is made of important muscles

is it bad if your bones crack easily

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