Normal? Can you hear your own pulse?

[Pot Bellied Fool]

Is this normal or have I mutated?

Few weeks back, I woke in the middle of the night and drove myself crazy trying to find what I thought was water dripping, a rather rhythmic sound. (We've just moved and I don't yet trust all the house infrastructure!)

Then I realised it was, quite literally, all in my head and what I was hearing was my own pulse beat.

I can still hear it, although not so loud as that time. It's not loud enough to be heard or intrusive enough to cause me issues generally, but usually if I'm in bed & all is quiet, then I can hear it.

Normal, or should I start looking up trepanning videos on YouTube?

(56, bit tubby, no medications, 144/74)

[and31]

Sometimes I can hear my own pulse , but I also suffer from quite bad tinnitus, so I sleep with the telly on in the bedroom, this helps me immensely-if I was in a dead quiet room it would drive me crackers

[arcturus]

Yes, I can sometimes hear my own pulse when in bed at night. Not all the time though.

[Peanut130]

don't want to scare you but i started to hear my own pulse when lying down on my left . The only way i could sleep without the pulse was to turn over on my right . then had a mild stroke and needed a operation on my neck for a 80% blocked artery . i lost part of my sight due to tiny blood clots

[Crumpet]

If you Google it you’ll find pulsatile tinnitus and you’re about 70% likely to be dead within a week.

I had it a few months back and it did concern me at the time. Long story short, the doctors were useless so I booked a Specsavers appointment to have my ears cleaned out (with a few days of ear drops to soften the wax) where they said there was possibly a small infection and some fluid behind the ear drum. A few days after having them cleaned out it all stopped and went back to normal with no sign since.

Maybe worth a trip to Specsavers? Even if it doesn’t cure it it’s nice to be able to hear a pin drop at 500 yards.

[snuffy]

I started hearing my own a few years ago now (maybe 10). A whooshing sound at night, but then also during the day if I was somewhere quiet.

I went to my GP who poked around in my ears and said everything looked fine. I was asked if it bothered me? No, not really. So her advice was "in that case, don't let it bother you". So I didn't.

The best explanation I found on Dr Google wad a blood vessel being too close to your ear drum (or something like that), which sounded plausible.

I can still hear it now, but not as often, certainly not all the time like it used to be.

[thepritch]

Crumpet said:

If you Google it you’ll find pulsatile tinnitus and you’re about 70% likely to be dead within a week.

I’ve had it for years, so must be in the ‘lucky’ 30% category as I’m still here.

To be fair it is only really noticeable if the back of my head is resting on a headboard in bed. I also get pins and needles in my head sometimes. Quite an odd feeling!!!

[darreni]

I’ve always had it. Mostly I never notice, but lying in bed, once you tune into it, you can’t unhear it.

[drmotorsport]

I sometimes get it when lying on my left ear, I just put it down to my high blood pressure.

[Porsche-worm]

Yes but only normally when lying on the pillow trying to sleep.

Worse if I've had too much caffeine that day.

[Macneil]

I get this all the time, also tinnitus.
Had a mild heart attack last year and had a stent fitted
According to my blood pressure chart your systolic is a little bit high and diastolic bang on, but it wouldn't do any harm to see a gp and have an ecg to reassure you.

[Llandudno]

High blood pressure, stress, ear infection, ear wax.
Just rule out each of them.