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Can You See Your Heart Beating?

Karina

By Karina
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I am skinny. I guess for as long as I can remember I could see my heart beating right below the breast bone and kind of down my abdomen. I once asked a doc about this (I am a nurse, and didn't want to have an abdominal anurism sp? go undiagnosed :unsure: ).

Anyway, it seems like it is way more noticeable now lately (last week or so). I kind of feel this tightness in my chest and I think that might be gas related, because sometimes I'll just have this big burb (that I don't usually have). I'll reach down and touch my upper abdomen and can feel it pulsating. Also the last week, my hands and feet are very cold a lot (our weather is just now getting cooler). I was out of town this past weekend and could very well have gotten glutened (my reactions are not as bad now, that I have been gluten-free for awhile).

I am under a lot of stress too. Nothing bad, just real real busy. I feel like I am always on the go, and I know my diet has suffered (NO, I have not cheated, I would never do that).

So anyone else experience this? It may very well be stress. I have had these symptoms before, and like I said I have always seen the pulsating in the middle of my chest--it's just more noticeable now.

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Carriefaith Enthusiast
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I get heart palpitations when I am glutened, but that seems to be the only time that I am aware of my heart beating.

tarnalberry Community Regular
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Yep, and it's fairly common. There's a pretty big artery there.

beelzebubble Contributor
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check out my post here:

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does it sound anything like what you are experiencing?

Karina Explorer
Karina
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Beezlebubble,

I dont really feel my heart pounding...if I am really still I can feel my aorta pulsating (I think), and I think that is what I see "beating" in my chest, right below the sternal notch. Sometimes the "beating" looks like pounding and other times it is more subtle--like it beats harder after a hot shower or climbing the stairs.

I do experience the burping thing like you described it, but no rash or redness, and only hot flashes around my period usually.

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