Heartbeat chest

[Jeroen]

Hello.

I'm a 20 year old male, and last months my heartbeat is very strong, i don't know why! But i can see it in my stomach/chest .. When i walk up the stairs to my room and i sit down on my chair, and watch my heartbeat i can see it pulse really hard .. It looks like it wants to come out of my body .. Really strange, so I went to the docter and he said some people have stronger heartbeats then others, but he did send me to the hospital for a ultrasound of my stomach .. The results where good, they told me i had nothing to worry about ..

But after that i searched on the internet about it .. And i saw only really thin/skinny are able to see their heartbeat, and im not thin at all (16.5 stone and 6.07 feet) so im overweight. But i still can see my heartbeat really well .. In rest, but like i said before, if i walk up the stairs its pulsing really hard. (not fast but hard/strong) .. My whole stomach shakes.

So i have a few questions ..

- is it normal for people at my age?
- If the docter made an ultrasound of my stomach, does he know everything is allright in my chest aswell?
- If its normal, why can i see my heartbeat? As everyone says only skinny people can.

I was scared for a heartattack after my dad died on one .. I'm still a bit scared, but not that much as i was before .. Could that be the reason?

Thanks allready, sorry for my bad english, im not from England.

[ireneo]

I've always been able to see my pulse in my chest and abdomen. I used to be skinny as a young person, now I'm "cuddly." My doctor was concerned about my pulse being so strong in the abdomen and sent me for the echo as well. They look for any aneurysms then. I didn't have any and it sounds like you don't either.

So it's not unusual to feel or see your pulse. The question you might want to ask is why you've had a change. You didn't feel it this strongly before (right?) and now you do. It's probably still not a problem but perhaps they can explain what caused the change.

[ThePunished]

Hey I get this as well. Tell me, do you have any trouble sleeping at night? Or do you have any sleep irregularities you know of?