Thanks Rosa, that's right, a friend recently leant me her stethoscope allowing me to hear my own heart and lung sounds for the first time. At rest the heart was loud, but you could still hear breath sounds - pretty much what I'd expected. After running all I seemed to hear was a fast, heavy thumping - no breaths or other noises - that droned out everything beside. To my ear it seemed to mask audible subtleties. I imagined this might preclude any proper analysis of breath noises and, indeed, salient noises made by the heart itself. Hence my query.
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Thanks Rosa, that's right, a friend recently leant me her stethoscope allowing me to hear my own heart and lung sounds for the first time. At rest the heart was loud, but you could still hear breath sounds - pretty much what I'd expected. After running all I seemed to hear was a fast, heavy thumping - no breaths or other noises - that droned out everything beside. To my ear it seemed to mask audible subtleties. I imagined this might preclude any proper analysis of breath noises and, indeed, salient noises made by the heart itself. Hence my query.
November 9, 2012 - 9:28pmThis Comment
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