Is it in any way normal to have two pulses? because ive always got a very rapid pulse close to teh skin but when i actually feel my heart its beating normal. but this other pulae is really fast and goes over like my whole body, people feel and think my hearts racing but my actual heart is beating much slower usually than the pulse felt at the skin.... whats going on? the first tiemi felt this was after id taken heaps of no doz and not slept i think
Is it constant? You could be having palpatations, during which your heart is beating irregularly. OR, you could just be feeling the complete circuit of your heart. When it pumps blood, it expands and retracts... you can feel both of these when taking your pules. The expansion is much easier to feel in some over others. Any other heart-related questions? 19 year old with heart disease here, I've been through the ringer.
as in when i feel my heart its beating normally. badum... badum... badum.... badum.... but in any time if heightened bloo dpressure, if i feel a partof my body thats not my heart, its beating at a seemingly unrelated boom boom boom boom boom boom. as in my body pulses at a different rate to my heart. like sometimes so fast i should logically be going into panic or shock or whatever but its not my heart rate caus myheart is beating different. itsonly uncomfortable to think about, theres no strain or whatever and it happens a lot
When your blood pressure is up, your heart will beat faster. So if you are checking your heart rate when your blood pressure is up that is probably why. I'm confused on what exactly you are asking. Of course it will be faster when your blood pressure has risen. When you take your pulse, you are not taking your heart beat. They are sort of related, but not the same thing exactly. See if you are taking your pulse down on your wrist you are measuring it there, where as your heart is all the way back up your body. Might cause for a slight variance. And if you are pressing too hard to find it, then that will skew the results as well. A lot of people tend to do that when they take their pulse on their neck. What is your heart rate when you take your pulse? Have you ever had your doctor tell you something is strange about it or about your blood pressure? If not then you probably aren't taking your pulse right. I am not trying to be mean, but most people don't take it right. It took me a long time to figure out. Finally a friend of mine who is a nurse sat down with me for 2 hours and showed me all sorts of things about it. If you are concered talk to the doctor about it.
hm...don't know if it's correlated, but in ayurveda, they check your 3 pulses. you can measure the difference by placing 3 fingers (not thumb) on your wrist and pressing them with different levels of pressure. something to look into?
I think I know what you mean. If you aren't talking about taking your pulse on your wrist or neck... sometimes when your heart beats really hard or really fast you can feel a sort of throbbing sensation say... in your stomach, or your calf in relation to your heart beat. Sometimes you can even hear it. I've never thought about it. The only thing I can think of is that when blood is pumped through the heart, there is obviously not a solid stream going through your body. It's equivalent to turning the faucet on and off of course. So, the pressure at which the blood is flowing through a vessel depends on the diameter of the vessel. Eh... this is too complicated to explain. I wouldn't worry about it really.
well, your blood doesn't exactly turn on and off like a faucet. no you really do have a constant flow of blood through your body and through your heart. The heart has 4 chambers: top bottom atrium(right) and ventricles(left). The atrium receives the blood from the entire body except from the lungs. When the heart contracts, blood flows into the right atrium. When your heart relaxes the blood moves from the right atrium to the right ventricle. on the next contraction (or same since it is continuous) the blood that was in the right ventricle moves over to the left side which goes back to the lungs where you get rid of all of the carbon dioxide and where you pick up the oxygen. Then the blood with oxygyen goes back to the heart through the veins. Then it goes to the aorta which sends it all over the body (except the lungs since it was already there picking up the oxygen). So essentially, your heart or blood doesn't exactly turn on and off, it has a pattern. I think what you are saying is that the amount of blood actually going through the pulse point is different than the blood that is in your heart at the same time. Right? that is sort of like what I was trying to say, but you are absolutely right, it is really hard to explain.
i thought you were refering to the multiple pulse of the body. there is a pulse for the heart, lungs, and liver, and maybe even more. but this is not what you're talking about...
*sigh* at any particular moment there may be TWO pulses. i dont need to feel my pulse with my fingers, i can feel it in my body. my body pulses noticeably to a fast rhytm but the heart is going at a much slower rhythm and the two rhythms are not related. the 'external' pulse can be felt over most of the body, the internal one i feel when i actually feel my heart and pulse with fingers, which i am perfectly capable of.
