How loud can a murmur bex

[Guest]

Hi..
Long story short: palpitations...chest pain...shortness of breath....nothing shows up on ecg or echo or blood tests..
Now Im at the x-ray section of a hospital when i hear this loud swooshing heart beat noise. I think it comes from me so I ask a nurse, we go to heart doctor and there is nothing. He says a loud noice like that must be from an ultrasound machine nearby.

My question is how high can a murmur be. Can it be so audible that you can hear it many feet away? And really clear sound like an ultrasound, or is the heart doctor correct that it must have been some hospital sound.

thanks

 

[DebbyA]

I heard the blood whooshing when I had ultrasounds, but didn't have a trained ear to identify a murmur. I guess anyone else nearby could have heard it. Aside from the cardiac echo exams, the only time I ever heard my murmur was when a nurse had me listen on her stethoscope during catherization prep. I think if you had a murmur bad enough to cause chest pain and shortness of breath, the doctor would have been able to detect it. I hope you can get a diagnosis for your problem soon.

 

[Superbob]

Sounds like it was the whooping sound you hear when an echocardiogram technician lets you hear what the machine is picking up. I am not aware of murmurs ever being that audible to the naked ear, so to speak. I, too, wish you well on getting a diagnosis soon.

 

[epstns]

I had a "very pronounced" murmur prior to my valve replacement surgery, and never could it be heard without a stethoscope. I guess you might have heard it if you placed your ear right on my chest, but no way could it be loud enough to be heard without some contact or amplification. Think about the physics of it all. Your heart is contained within the walls of your chest. If you can't feel a huge vibration when you place your hand onto your chest, you would not be able to hear the murmur outside your body. You must have heard someone else's echocardiogram sounds.

 

[river-wear]

Yeah, I had a huge leak and there's no way I could hear it without a stethoscope or echo machine picking up the sound. Even if you somehow could hear it yourself, the doctor would certainly be able to hear it with a stethoscope. Murmurs don't come and go.

Good luck with a diagnosis. Is it possible you're having panic attacks? Pesky things can make it hard to figure out what's happening.

 

[scott.eitman]

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[scott.eitman]

I doubt you could hear it outside your body. However, I remember, when laying in the right position in a quiet room, being able to hear the blood swooshing. Not at my heart, but the blood near my ear. Yeah, they will be coming to take me away now.

 

[Paleowoman]

I I remember, when laying in the right position in a quiet room, being able to hear the blood swooshing. Not at my heart, but the blood near my ear. .

I used to get that in my left ear, it's called "pulsitile tinnitus" - you hear the swooshing sound of your heart beat VERY loudly in one ear only. I don't know what can set it off, it seems more to do with the position of the neck and head than anything else, it's nothing to do with the noise you hear when lying down on your heart side, I always used to get it while sitting up, sometimes while I was in the middle of a conversation ! I had MRI and stuff to investigate it, they could find no abnormality. I must say I never liked it when it happened as it was so loud and sudden !