can you hear your heartbeat in your left ear?

Just wondering if anyone gets hyper focused on listening to their heart beat in their ear. I think I worry too much and focus on the heart beat.

I only hear it if I lay in bed a certain way with one ear pressed against the pillow, and that's been true since childhood so has nothing to do with afib. I think it's pretty common to be able to hear heartbeats. That's particularly true if you have hypertension. Had your BP checked lately?

Obsessing on minding your heart beat is never good. People do that with their Kardia and Apple Watches and such, and all it does is raise their stress levels even higher. I would try to shift attention to something else whenever you find yourself paying attention to it. Play some music or something to distract yourself from it.

I sometimes hear the beats in my... right ear.
When it happens, it's reassuring, because it usually happens when my heart returns to quiet NSR just after having lots of ectopics. I don't worry about this.

Hey, Pam.

I hear it in my left ear when laying on that side. Believe this is fairly common with afibbers.

Doesn't freak me out... just don't like it... so I change my position.

/L

I had that for many years and worried about if my heart would quit or whatever, being a long term anxiety sufferer.
The solution for me was and still is a soft down pillow wadded under my head so my left ear is neither on the pillow or the bed itself.
Never had the problem on my right side.