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Q: Hearing Your Own Heart Beat

asked by: Boogieman on September 5th, 2006

New User

I can hear my heart beat in my left ear when it is quiet, lying down or even sitting up. Is this normal or is it an indication of some medical problem? I am 69 and still actively working as an over the road truck driver. Blood pressure is usually around 145 over 88 approximately. Has anyone else ever experienced or heard of this phenomenom?

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delancey

replied on September 14th, 2006

Experienced User

That's nothing you should really be concerned about, it's known as pulsatile tinnitus, there is a topic about it here...

Http://ehealthforum.Com/health/topic29738. Html
has your doctor mentioned anything about your blood pressure, as it sounds as if it's slighty on the high side...?

typicalweird

replied on November 12th, 2007

New User

Re: Hearing Your Own Heart Beat

Boogieman wrote:

Im sure you have found the answer by now ..or then again maybe not.I started experiencing this over a year ago. I researched it and researched it and found many explanations and also found nothing.The doctors think its related to the arteries or sinus or allergies or head injury or just a fluke. I have been told that 3 percent of the world has this weird problem and most causes are unknown.I have read where people just recently just started having it and then I have heard where people had it all their lives . Some very old. I also have been told that older people is the largest compliant of this.. due probably to hardening of the arteries. I went to two doctors one a gp and the other a ent.They ran test ,rather expensive test ..their conclusion..stress..although I am not under stress.The only stress was from the anxiety the noise caused.They did tell me however that I had a benign murmur but told me there was no concern.I have read thousands and thousands of people complaining about this and more is known about it than was a few years ago but still people are in the dark as to what causes this and some have even had surgery but still had the sound.The causes included was weight loss, ear wax, tube closings, artery damage,arteries mangled ,arteries constricted, murmur , etc.. weird but true ..To put it simply..I really don't think you have much to worry about. I have had it a year and I haven't died yet.I met a doctor that had it since he was born and is retired and says that we will never find our answer in a "white coat" he said just try to ignore it ,but yet he finds it soothing saying it reminds him he is alive..Good luck to you and try not to worry ..

jodie 16

replied on November 14th, 2007

Experienced User

Hmm

Lots Of People Get Tha! Stress Somtimes !!
It Feels Like a movie when you can hear the heart beat !

But somtimes well its obviouse when your liein there quietly your can somtimes hear or feel your heart **

nuthin to worry bout but see your gp of your that concerned

conniear50

replied on May 4th, 2009

New User

Hearing my own and othr weird bodily noises.

I saw that weight loss was mentioned as a factor and this didn't begin until I had lost well over fifty pounds, I have now lost ninety.I haven't been concerned really, just decided to google it and ended up here. Sometimes I get palpitation and what is weird is when you hear your own heart skipping beats.

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