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Does any one know when you get a beating noise in ear is the blood going round body or is it your heart you can hear, when i lay in bed cab hear a beating noise in my right ear.

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Pulsatile tinnitus, when you hear your pulse. Often happens with hypertension, but not necessarily. I have it too. Drives me just a little crazy when I am trying to sleep.

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Brumchick in reply to SRMGrandma

It may sound strange ,but as well as frequent and very annoying,pulsatile tinnitus ,i regularly hear a pulsing sound in time to my heartbeat from my trachea,but it sounds like a cross between a soft argh /soft dull glug .like one would hear from a young child drinking lemonade.Its the only way i can describe it .I do not have high bp and in fact suffer Pots .!

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Thomps95

I get something similar too - especially if I stay up too late, have too much coffee or alcohol or take cold tablets. But this sound is not related to my heart beat - it is irregular, like a spasm in the inner ear, or a spastic acoustic reflex - if yours is the same rhythm as your heart rate, then it may be vascular in origin.

Mine doesn't seem to be related to my heart, so could be something called tonic tensor tympani syndrome.

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lorna33

I have had this since I was little, sounds like a train chugging in my ear. It's definitely my heartbeat, I hear mine day and night I do not have high blood pressure or hypotension. It's worse at night when it's quite and it drives me round the bend. I've told Drs in the past and they just shrug it off and tell me it's just one of those things ! I tend to pop my ears by holding my nose and blowing like you do on a plane it stop the sound for a little bit but not for long !

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higgy52 in reply to lorna33

Yes mine is the same as you discribe, annoying when trying to get sleep

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lorna33 in reply to higgy52

I told the school nurse when I was small that I had a train in my ear , she told me I had tinnitus. I told my mom , she went mad and said I didn't have tinnitus and stopped me seeing the nurse !

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Lainie2875 in reply to lorna33

Hi Lorna mine is exactly like that and I too pop my ears to stop it when it's bad but it's very short lived.

I have had ct scans several times they found some small blob in a vein but said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack trying to remove it.

What ever happens when you pop you're ear is the key to the answer of recreating this permanently. Long shot eh !!!

Best wishes

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DownUnderInAus in reply to Lainie2875

Hi there, I was wondering how your PT is going, like you if i pop my ears I can get relief, how odd, by chance have you found a reason for the PT...? Thanks Ian

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DownUnderInAus in reply to lorna33

Hi there, I was wondering how your PT is going, like you if i pop my ears I can get relief, how odd, by chance have you found a reason for the PT...? Thanks Ian

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higgy52 in reply to DownUnderInAus

ok at moment had 3rd ablation and the heart beat in ear as gone as i'm in NSR at moment

Had that most of my life and it drove me crazy, really annoying and made it hard to get to sleep. It was definitely my heart beating. With me I feel it was induced by alcohol / stress / thinking too much / too much going on etc etc. It may have also been brought on by other triggers like too much food, eating late, sugar, caffeine, any sort of stimulant especially prior to bed time.

It disappeared years ago I guess with being older, calmer and removing what were possibly the triggers as mentioned, also things like exciting music too late in the day etc etc.

I'm half-guessing, maybe it was something else altogether, but it 's gone which is the main thing :-)

Koll

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BobDVolunteer

All the time.

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George2467814

Feel pulse in ear when lying down and other body areas at various times...good to know someone is working....

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Noidea63

mine always sounds like marching feet! 👞

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djroute66

i get it in my right ear which is annoying, i never had this before af so maybe it would be worth doing some research into it, as it seems quite a few afibbers have it.

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PALady

I get it too. I have controlled hypertension. I also have permanent high pitched whistle. Only used to have symptoms like this after being in noisy environment (loud music) but since I had labyrinthitis, it's there all the time. Funnily enough, when I can't hear the pulse sound, I'm having an AF spell, so annoying though the pulse is, it is also reassuring.

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constabule

me to , had it for years .

Am I more normal than I think I am

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Gamer4life

I hear this sound when I lay down on my folded ear.I can hear a marching noise also but when I placed my hand on my heart it wasn’t in sync my heart beat is moving faster than the pulse in my ear.

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DownUnderInAus

Hi, Yep Koll, mine is very similar to yours, I'm hoping if I relax a bit more that it will just go...!

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