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Patient rises from a chair, bends to pick up a dropped phone, or crouches to retrieve a sock, and the resulting sound is the full snap-crackle-pop of a bowl of freshly milked Rice Krispies. The sound is audible across the room. A family member has turned to look. The patient is 31. This is apparently how it is now.
Permanent. Medically classified as crepitus; culturally classified as a personality trait.
None. The noises are not, strictly, painful. They are just loud.
Patients with Severe Crepitus Cereal Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Severe Crepitus Cereal Syndrome — a severe condition cataloged for archival purposes and shared for patient use. No prescription exists. No intervention has been shown effective. Recognition is the primary benefit of diagnosis.
Formal name: Articulus sonorus multiplex. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
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