Hearing Heartbeat in Ear - Is This Normal?

hi,just wondering what an ear drum twitch is like,ive had this feeling of ''hearing'' my heart beat in my right ear on and off especially at night,is this a twitch or something else i should be worried about?? lol

Nope you should not.First, many fellows have eardrum twitches.Second, yu can really 'hear' your heartbeat especially if you lay at night without sleep.

thanks yulia,your so helpful as always! ive had this for years on and off and now that im heaing people here say they have an eardrum twitch i was just wondering..thanks again x

I do have the eardrum twitching and I've actually been having it for quite some time before I realized that it is twitching (mine is definitely not a heartbeat since it comes another frewuency and only when I am really stressed). Actually I only realized that after all the other twitching started.Now to a question I have already put forward in another thread: Does the eardrum twitching qualify for the time of twitching? I started to have the bfs-type of twitching just two months ago, but the eardrum twitching has been around for one or two years, maybe even more. What do you think? Is it related?

I too sometimes get eardrum twitching. In addition to it, I occasionally have something called tensor tympani syndrome, a benign condition in which my ear flutters when I hear a loud noise. Here is a helpful link on that: I've had both for years. I remember going to ear doctors and neurologists back in college, over a decade ago, to get answers. The told me that stress plays a large part, and one told me he could sever the tiny muscle or Botox it if it really bothered me. I declined and it went away on its own but sometimes returns if I have allergies or am stressed. My dad doesn't have tensor tympani syndrome, but he says he sometimes gets eardrum twitches too and he has for decades. Along with tongue twitching, I'd say eardrum twitching is the worst in terms of being annoying, because the feeling of a bug flapping its wings in your ear is just not good.Incidentally I had a follow up with my neurologist two weeks ago, not about bfs but about other stuff ( weakly positive ANA, and restless legs). Another thread here on eardrum twitching piqued my interest, so I asked her and she said that yes, eardrums do twitch, and yes it's likely part of the BFS picture. Then we didn't talk about bfs because she, like most neurologists, are just not concerned about it after everything comes back clean. Kind of funny really, we should all be so nonchalant about it.

Hi emmie,thanks a lot for the comprehensive answer. Eardrum twitching being probably a part of bfs is rather reassuring for me, because it shows that I've been into this for more time than I previously thought. Maybe I already had all the other twitches for some time as well and only noticed them (eardrum twitching cannot go unnoticed ), when they were increased by stress (and then anxiety after I had consulted Dr. Google).

I am having this also but didn't recognize it as a twitch. I thought I had fluid in my ear or something. I find it reassuring as well, not only because I've had this a long while...but also because als is a disease of VOLUNTARY muscles and i sue know I cannot make my eardrum move on my own or flex it.

Yep, I'm not a neuro but I know als doesn't start in the ears, so it is just our hyper excited nerves, which we've likely had longer than we realize.

Oh my goodness, I GET THIS, TOO. Every time I start to feel like nobody else in the world can relate to me, it is always encouraging to find that I'm not the only one that experiences this kind of stuff. Not many people can relate at all. My mom sometimes gets it, I don't think she experiences BFS symptoms as frequently as I do, but she does know what I'm talking about, at least.

Long term BFS sufferer (over 40 years.) Yes, I've had eardrum twitch. I also hear my heart beat in my ear at times, especially in bed. Both are common.

Hearing your heartbeat in your ears is almost always caused by increased turbulence in blood flow near the ear. This can happen when your blood pressure is elevated, times with increased cardiac contractility (like during anxiety or exercise)...sometimes in older adults when there is some blockage. If it's persistent get it checked out.