For weeks I have heard someone kicking a garage door at night, sounds about 100 yds away.

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Last night I discovered it was my heartbeat anything to be concerned about do you think?

It sounds like it might be tinnitus.
I had this for about five years - I could hear my heartbeat in both ears whenever there was no other noise to mask it - really annoying at bed-time when you're trying to read or get to sleep, or when someone is talking quietly and you're straining to hear them.

I had an MRI (nice and noisy in there - nearly fell asleep!) and blood tests and there was no medical cause found.

I did some reading and it seems the best cure is to talk yourself out of it. When you first notice the noise it makes you anxious and so you program your brain to be on the look-out for what you think might indicate a problem, which makes you notice it more which makes you more worried.... I worked on telling myself that it didn't matter and wasn't important. There was no improvement until one day in my first pregnancy I realised that it had suddenly gone! I still hear it occasionally but I just tell myself that it will go away and it always does.

I was worried that it would come back during my second pregnanacy and that I'd have to have a third child just to get rid of it again... but luckily it's stayed away ever since. Just as well - two children are exhausting enough!!

Hope this helps - but if you're worried you should go and see your GP.

Hi,

I am suffering with this too but only in my left ear. I have tinnitus in both ears anyway but this takes the form of a highpitched whiny type noise. The heartbeat noise started about six weeks ago. GP is not concerned and thinks I may have some "gunk" in the tube leading off my ear .(Gunk was his words , not mine !) I do find that if I ignore it I don't really notice it as much but it can annoy me at night. Interestingly it has coincided with a very stressful anxious time it my life. Violinplayer hit the nail on the head when she said ignoring it is the best way forward, but you may wish to mention it to your GP just to make sure you don't have an earinfection or something like that.
HTH

Thanks for the replies, I cant tell witch ear I can hear it from, so maybe it is both, I had a perforated ear drum that became infected back in May, so maybe it has something to do with that.