Just wondering if anyone experiences this same feeling -
I'd describe it as hearing/feeling your pulse in your head when you are laying down.
The rest of the time, I've been experiencing the brain shakes that I've read other people here have had....
but now I'm starting to wonder if all along, even when I'm standing/moving, it's actually feeling my pulse..hard to tell the difference!
I feel totally strange posting this, haha, but figured why not...
Thanks! Posted by back2game (Member # 23927) on :
I see my pulse in my eyes in the early morning only, when I first get up.
So totally strange.
Posted by payne (Member # 26248) on :
I feel totally strange posting this, haha, but figured why not...
glad you did and wish more would, my head is full of bacteria and ditto, strange ... pounding with every heart beat, all my test/CTs and MRI's etc.. are good. Find a LLMD and trust them... i am not a doctor, be safe
Posted by bridge (Member # 30896) on :
thanks for your responses so far!
it's reassuring to know "it's not just me.."
i guess having 'neuro-lyme' is going to be a really tough battle...
payne - does it make your feel "heavy" too?
thanks!
Posted by bridge (Member # 30896) on :
you *head* sorry!
Posted by bridge (Member # 30896) on :
your *head* sorry!
Posted by LymeGoAway (Member # 25041) on :
Yes, I get this too. Some nights it's worse than others.
Posted by payne (Member # 26248) on :
kinda water logged...up
Posted by merrygirl (Member # 12041) on :
my doc said it was part of my palpatations. could be your bp too. I take a betablocker
Posted by gracefullyteaching (Member # 30654) on :
I had this badly the first few months I felt ill. It drove me CRAZY. It was always when I woke up. Sometimes I still feel my heart beating in other parts of my body. At first the doctors told me it was all anxiety. I knew it was not.
Posted by fflutterby (Member # 28081) on :
I have this too, I am hoping it goes away with treatment. Mine is worse at night, but if I turn my head a certain way it seems to get quieter..
Posted by Dawn2137 (Member # 27238) on :
I used to have that all the time, but not only when laying down. It would also get much louder/harder in my head right before I would pass out, lol.
Betablocker got rid of it for me(though I still have heart palpitations in chest..), but I *hope* to be off that someday!
Posted by chaps (Member # 25286) on :
back2game, I see the same pulse in my eyes when laying in bed, and I remember seeing this when I first got sick with the week of flu symptoms.
I also recall this earlier in life any time I had the flu.
Separate from that, early on in the illness, I felt what felt like electical impulses or pulsating in my head and if I covered an ear with my hand, I'd hear it even more. It's like quick little electrical impluses, much faster than a heart rate pules.
Posted by Lauralyme (Member # 15021) on :
oh yes, I know this well it goes away with treatment
Posted by joysie (Member # 11063) on :
One of my first symptoms. I felt my pulse pounding in my head and very loudly in my ears when I would lie down to go to sleep.
Posted by Tammy67 (Member # 31486) on :
hi everyone this is my first post an first time on this. i to have that pulse in head an ears i think its from babesia or bartenella my spellin is so bad an mind cloudy from lyme.an thank u my angel kathy.
Posted by back2game (Member # 23927) on :
Welcome Tammy67! Don't worry 'bout the spelling; all our minds are fogged.
Yup, this symptom is one strange one.
I also take beta blocker and ace inhibitor.
Not on abx now, cannot tolerate. Tryin to do naturally.
Y'all take care.
Posted by lymeinhell (Member # 4622) on :
It most likely means your blood pressure is high at the time. If you have a cuff, next time it happens go take your BP. I used to get this (both seeing pulse in my eye and hearing it in my head) when my BP was uncontrolled.
Posted by chaps (Member # 25286) on :
My blood pressure has been normal throughout, and I still get this.
Posted by tickled1 (Member # 14257) on :
I get this when I feel like I'm about to pass out. Anyone know why exactly?
Posted by annier1071 (Member # 28977) on :
Well you described my life. I get insane listening to it all night long. I have such horrible brain shakes that I cant walk straight.
How does anyone walk feeling like that? It can zap me at any moment and i tip over or grab on to people and scare them lol!
I had this increased by 1000 when I went on rifampin and even after stopping it the shakes and brain zaps and pulsing in my head are still soo intense. Much worse than before I started treatment.
Posted by annier1071 (Member # 28977) on :
I am on a beta blocker for my blood pressure...toprol xl. It hasnt stopped my head pulse at all. I wish.
Posted by randibear (Member # 11290) on :
maybe that's what's causing my eyes to twitch and jerk. it could be my heartbeat. and then the ringing in my ears.
i take bp meds and do monitor it and i'm pretty well normal.
it's the jerking and twitching that gets me.
Posted by Shahbah (Member # 28735) on :
that's from the cranial nerves pulsating...
Posted by Laura_W (Member # 31491) on :
I feel the sensation of my pulse in my head.... Like I am feeling/hearing my pulse. The severity varies.
Somedays I have intense headaches that pulse. And they get worse when I change positions... ex. up from a chair or sit down. or even coughing will do it.
Posted by phyl6648 (Member # 28522) on :
Yes, have had this for over two years. Not sure if its part of lyme or not my ENT says its sinus and ear infection. I also have ringing in my ears 24/7 its much worse when I have a sinus infection, which I seem to keep but not the typical sinus symptoms so that is why I think lyme.
Still no treatment yet, hoping to know something Tues.
When I take an abx for my sinus the sound in my ears and head goes away only to return.
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