Involuntarily hearing your heartbeat/ feeling your pulse

topic posted Sat, September 29, 2007 - 3:33 AM by  Unsubscribed
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Just wondering if anyone else here experiences the same thing.

For example, i was reading my notes a few days ago, and involuntarily felt the pulsating/ throbbing feeling in my hands. The pulsating feeling doesn't just originate from the wrist, but from all the fingers. i guess this is rather strange, because although the thumb supposedly has its own pulse, the same thing isn't said about the other fingers.

Hmm..i did a quick lookup, and apparently the little finger also has its own pulse. But i didn't find anything for the other fingers. i guess i'll look up more about this later as i'm running short on time now.

This was what Wikipedia had to say:
radial pulse - located on the thumb side of the wrist (radial artery)
ulnar pulse - located on the little finger side of the wrist (ulnar artery)

Anyway, the pulsating feeling will be accompanied by the booming sound ringing in my ears. i suppose you can say that it's like me with a stethoscope.

i normally have to change the position of my hands, or totally not hold whatever it is i'm holding at that time (from what i recall, they usually occur when i'm holding a reading material). Leaving my hands alone, that is allowing them to just be free helps, but even when they're relaxed, it happens, and the feeling can actually be clearer then. And sometimes, they recur. They never really bothered me much so i'll just normally leave it, and it usually goes away after a while.

i wonder the reason for it though. Like why it happens only at certain times.

A long time ago, as usual, i was in the notion that it was a normal thing experienced by everyone.
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  • I hear my pulse banging in my ears when it's quiet. (It sounds like soft beating on a loose drumhead.)

    I don't know whether to be alarmed about it, since I have cardiovascular disease, but my heart rate is well under control with medicine. So i just figure that it has to do with the way sound travels through the skull or something.