Audible heartbeat - even to other people !!

I got this in the summer of 2010, and I still have it.
I moved back into my childhood home, was involved in a law suit, and the contractor who was renovating starting cheating, and stalling: he wouldnt finish up. So it was a lot of stress. But the palpitations never disappeared, when it was all over.
Even when my pulse is 60 I can still hear it..

My girlfriend and I at the time where having well a pretty rough exercise session if you know what I mean until we could both hear my heart beat clear as day.. kinda ruined the mood and scared the hell out of I was intoxicated at the time did I have a heart attack or do extensive damage to my heart

I was away for work lastnight and woke up with a massive heart rate that was very audible and felt like extremely high pressure. It felt like I was 'red lining' a cars engine. I focused on calming my heart rate down and suddenly the noise went away. I thought my heart had stopped because I couldn't hear or feel a pulse, but eventually realised that everything had returned to normal. Woke in the morning feeling fine. Like others in this thread, not keen on doctors. Any advice? Thanks, Dale. 33 male, usual 60bpm, 120 upper blood pressure

You have this too! I am an athletic male and my heartbeat is super visible and loud! You could hear it thumping from 3 feet away! I am glad I am not alone! Lol! I would love to see your visible heartbeat! I can video mine and you will see and hear it! Thanks Jay

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Yes it happened to me last week after strenous exercise for the fisrt time. My wife got a terrible fright as she said the sound "filled the bedroom". It lasted about 5 to 10 seconds. I did not feel unwell. I am 54 years old. I have had no problems with my heart although I have been on statins for high colestrol for about 5 years.

I am sitting in the couch beside my 7 year old son and I could hear his heart beating! There was almost a squeak to it. It took me a minute to figure out what it was, and then I out my hand in his chest and I could feel it beating to the sound. He said he couldn't hear it but got annoyed with me so I think he was just saying that because it was freaking him out...did anyone ever find out an answer?

hi guys, I have been suffering from dizzyness for about 2 years on and off but i started getting a bit scared for my heart when i noticed that my own heartbeat was irregular sometimes and getting palps. I have had a few ecg's, an echo and 24hr moniter, the echo was very reasuring as my doctor says my heart is functioning very well but the 24hr moniter picked up 1st degree HeartBlock and sometimes rather low heartbeat (at one point it was 38bpm while asleep). i understand 1st degree Heartblock is usually nothing to worry about and wont usually cause any problems, and the low heartrate is quite typical of a young fit man (i am only 23 and am fairly active). I am due to have a 7day monitor next month as the cardiogalist wants to be sure my heart isnt the cause of my dizziness.

I get these very loud heart beats also during and after exersise, especially good sex as others have mentioned. i have felt these strong very strong heart beats for a while now but it was only recently, when my girlfriend noticed, i realised others could hear and see these beats. My heart rate will be around 60-80bpm when they are at there loudest.

I mentioned these strong heartbeats to the cardiologist and she said that because my heartrate is naturally low but apparently healthy, the heart needs to move more blood with each beat so the beat becomes substantually more noticable. For others with a higher average heartrate, they are not moving as much blood with each beat and the beats arent so pronounced.

Although the cardiologist assured me that this is normal, and i dont doubt her, i cant help feeling that in my case the 1st dgr HeartBlock might be contributing to this slighly as it causes skipped beats.

I will be back on here after my 7day monitor results just incase they find something else. I will also make a special effort (with the help of my Girlfriend) to get these thumping heartbeats while on the monitor :)

sorry for the essay / life story

Steve, 23

Steve: First, it would be useful to know if you are a runner, jogger......or to what degree you exercise every day. If you are extremely athletic and are involved in more than one hour of exercise every day then 38 pulse would not concern me with the exception of does it go that low routinely each night when you rest or immediately prior to bed? Here is something to consider. Calcium is the mineral primarily responsible for the contraction of the heart muscle. Magnesium is the mineral primarily for the relaxation of the heart muscle. If you are magnesium deficient the heart may feel as though it skips a beat and may sound as if it had a prolapse, or flappy tissue on the mitral valve.
If indeed it is prolapse then supplementation will not correct that unusual sound when it contracts and relaxes. But if magnesium supplementation corrects that loud sound and that fluttering sensation (if indeed there is a fluttering sensation) then it is not true mitral valve prolapse. Often, when magnesium is low then the heart does not properly relax after contracting, and that is why the heart will then have a lump thud lump noise---sort of an extra sound when it beats. Calcium contracts, magnesium relaxes. Also consider that the largest part of magnesium in the body is found in the left ventricle of the heart, and if deficient many things start going astray, not only the heart muscle, but also the small muscles surrounding the arterial walls. When the heart contracts the muscles surrounding the arteries are supposed to contract in proper sequence--if deficient they may spasm--and in fact the heart itself may spasm if low in magnesium--an though this is technically not a heart attack it could indeed induce one. Try a calcium magnesium supplement ratio1/1. This may not be the answer, but I think it a logical start. Think about your diet an if you are not allergic and are not eating an ample supply of dark green food then start trying 1) turnip greens 2) spinach 3) broccoli. You may also want to have a magnesium analysis. Do not think you can get accurate results checking magnesium from blood or blood serum as only 1-3% of magnesium will be found in either the blood or blood serum. A hair analysis is a better lab test wherein you take hair from the nap of the neck....But even with all this said and done it is likely you are deficient in magnesium.

I'm 16 and I have the audible heart beat too but it's not when my bpm is over 100 it's got something to do with my stomach muscles. My mum didn't believe me when i told her so it kept happening for months until she was finally around to hear it. I can now make it 'squeak' on demand as i've figured out what triggers it. I had an echo which found a mitral valve prolape and mitral and tricuspid valve regurgitation. I'm still not sure what actually happens when it 'squeaks' but i'd assume the regurgitation just get worse and really loud! I don't think it's anything to worry about I just have a repeat echo every year to check valve deterioration hope this helped and stops you being too worried! My gp and the first cardiologist i saw had no idea what it was when they first heard it and they'd never heard anything like it so it would probably help if you could see what triggers it so that you can squeak on demand and get their attention! I do mine by clenching my stomach muscles for a while but i can also do it by drinking a big glass of water in one go without stopping for breath

This happened to me after sex- embarrassing to say, and as my lover is now frightened for my health/imminent demise, I have to talk to my GP- I know it is not well reported as I am a nurse, I felt fine, just excited (sorry about the detail). We all react differently to things, I think this was just a strong reaction of a fit heart in a thin frame.

A few days ago during sex I could hear my wife's heart .....it sounded like a valve was leaking by and causing a loud sloshing noise.......I was about two feet away from her and it lasted for about 4-6 minutes with her heart rate somewhat advanced. She tends to have low blood pressure readings and is a very slim 126 pound woman about 5'4" that has never been athletic but just blessed with some pretty remarkable genes that keep her looking like 25 and not her true age of 61.....I think young men tend to come up behind her thinking she is a lot younger and get the shock of their lives when they see she is old enough to be their grandmother.....She loves to eat and when we do go to a buffet...it's embarrassing to watch her put all that food away and never gain a pound. She won't take medications at all...not even an aspirin, and she avoids doctors like they have chicken bones in their noses with grass skirts. She has been nearly deaf for 20 years....just now got new hearing aids and life really is a challenge to undo all the damage going without them caused to the way she thinks and perceives words and intent. I had no idea of the social damage caused to people who cannot hear well and the conflict and drama that creates. I am trying to get her to see a doctor because she has a degree of fatigue that just is odd for someone so lean and well put together.

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Yes I can attest to this also. The building I live in must be poorly built with weak walls, but I thought it was paranoia that when my heartbeat would race and pound so hard while I was in bed that the person directly underneath me when it was quiet at night,m their bedroom could detect it. I would never have asked for fear of looking ridiculously crazy, but they can FEEL it through the wall, doctor told me the same thing, that its not possible. But the doctor is WRONG. This is an absurd anomoly in life I am sure it does not happen to many people, but I know for certain that anomoly or not, it gets the attention of someone at rest after it goes on for a while, long enough for them to pick up on something... Maybe they think you are pleasing yourself sexually or that you are moving around awkwardly, or whatever, but my heartbeat is strong enough when it pounds to do this. Its not a joke, I must be abnormal, and I do have a ton of energy, but after long enough of it happening, you become certain, because human perception is an amazing thing. Let me tell you, a poounding heartbeat could power something for sure. Its awkward, cause you cant control it. But I know I am not completely crazy and I know that doctors and such cant know everything, this is a fluke of nature or something, but yes it actually has happened multiple times, and I can prove it to anyone that wants to see. Or feel. Whatever. Bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam....Freaking amazing.

I have been having this same issue for awhile now and I'm also happy to find others with the same conditions. I'm 29 years old and have a thin build like many others here. I'm not sure the first time I noticed this, it's been a couple years, but I realized I could hear my heartbeat when my pulse seemed to get higher. Most of the time it's when I'm doing something strenuous but other times there didn't seem to be much reason. About a year ago it would happen once a week and for a period of time it seemed to happen everyday and now it's back to being occasional. I didn't even realize that it was actually audible, I thought I could just hear it in my ears. Then one day my wife asked what that noise was. The only noise I could hear in the room was my heart beating. I looked at her and said what noise? She said it was a thumping sound and I was shocked to realize she could hear my heartbeat too from probably 3-4 feet away. The left side of my chest right where I can feel my heartbeat gets an uncomfortable strange pain that has made me go to the ER twice in this last year because it had me worried that something was wrong and that I might have a heart attack or something. I got two EKGs and x-rays and they didn't find anything wrong. They also didn't believe that I or my wife could ever hear my heart beating audibly. I'm not sure what to do next and it seems all of you are in the same boat. I have had an issue with my right shoulder/middle back area for about a year as well that I have thought has something to do with this. It's usually tight up there and will pop a lot. After reading some comments about spinal issues and the connection with this problem and the fact that our hearts are in good shape I feel like maybe I should see a chiropractor. Hopefully all is well and besides the loud heart that trips people out I feel great and live an active life

I can hear my partners heart "pound", exceedingly audible at certain times of intimacy. Is a visit to the Dr wise?