Can you hear your heartbeat in your ear?

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Just sitting at my desk in work and all of a sudden I can hear my own heartbeat or blood flow or whatever pulsing away in my own ear! Surely this is not usual to hear your own bodily functions do other people hear this?!

It's normal. Are you feeling tired?

Sometimes I do. When I have my head on my pillow. I always think it sounds a bit fast.

Usually if I have a cold or sinus issues I get this.
I think it's pretty common.

I can at night, it’s a form of tinnitus. I gets worse/louder depending on how I am lying. It’s really annoying!

Yes if it's quiet and I really concentrate.

If it's very loud then it could be pressure in your ears or sinuses.

If you can hear it over normal noise of life then it's pressure. I used to get that a lot as a child.

I'm practically deaf in my left ear, sometimes when I lie with that ear on the pillow I can feel/hear it, I have to turn over when it happens though.

@OnTheEdgeOfTheNight not especially but I do have a 2 year old so I always have a low lying level of tiredness!

That's interesting thanks everyone! I have had a bit of smelly earwax in the ear I heard the pulsing in so might go and get it checked just to be on the safe side.

Yes I can, it comes and goes but it drives me nuts at night sometimes I tend to listen to the radio through head phones at night so I can not hear it so easily .
It is worst when I have a cold .

I have pulsatile tinnitus.

I have pulsatile tinnitus. Yes, same here.

only when I'm ill

I have pulsatile tinnitus

Me too. I didn’t realise it was something that not everyone got until last year, my tinnitus was so bad it was keeping me up at night and my hearing was not good.

Of course by the time I had a hearing test it had resolved itself...

The only time I’ve ever had that is when my anaemia was very bad.

Doesn't everybody all the time?

I do. Oh god, I've got a condition I didn't know I had. I did wonder how other people could bear to use ear plugs because to me that just exacerbates the already LOUD sound of my pulse in my ear...

Yes.

I can't use earplugs either. That and my breathing is so damned loud.

Yes. When I’m exhausted or ill

Only when I'm ill.

According to all the websites, I must be on my last legs. It is something that I have always had. My blood iron hovers on the low side but not severely anaemic. I'm hypermobile, though, so I wonder if it's related to that.

I have this in one ear it's pulsatile tinnitus. I've had 3 MRI scans and a CT scan to find the reason for it but no one seems to know. I've been referred to a neurologist now, not really sure what for.
I've had it for about 4 years now.

I used to get this pusatile tinnitus when I had an underactive thyroid, well I've still got one but medicate now and it went away. Occasionally if my thyroxine is low I can still get it.

It’s not normal per se. As others say it’s a form of tinnitus.

I’ve found my tinnitus kicks in more when I stressed. I first noticed it when I was learning to drive about 6 years ago and freaked that I might have an insect living in my ear.
I don’t like using ear plugs either.
I’ve been told it’s related to my heartbeat/blood flow but it’s never seemed to correspond in any way to me.

Yes all the time in my left ear. It’s pretty knackered though so it’s just my normal.