How often are you using your stethoscope?

How often are you using a stethoscope to listen to your own heart/lungs, or to listen on others heart/lungs?

Who are you listening to? Have you used a stethoscope on other than yourself before?

For me, i use it almost everyday on myself. But unfortunatly i have never listen on others.

I use my stethoscope nearly daily to auscultate all the appropriate points of my heart. I love to listen to it in general, but especially when I'm feeling it's pounding harder and faster. Unfortunately, I never could listen with the steth to other's hearts 'til now. I've had some experiences in ear-stething with my female partners years back but never had a real cordiophile to share my passion with.

Since I got one at the start of the year I find myself using it on most days, but not all. The odd thing is that despite it being a fetish of mine the goal of using it isn't always to get hard and then do the rest - I've always found heartbeat sound to be a good relaxation method and now that I can use my own rather than a recording it's even better. Before I tried using an iPhone to record my own heartbeat with the microphone and then play it back to myself with good quality headphones, but a real stethoscope is so much better, and the sight/feel of it puts me even deeper into that sort of headspace. I can either be the doctor using it or feel like a curious kid by looking at it and remembering what it felt like when it was 'look and wish I could touch' thing when I was younger, imagining someone else hopefully using it on me.

I listen every week at least. I have listen to others as well. Also have been listen to

A lot, for 10 years. i'm a critical care nurse and many of my patients have heart and lung issues. Though, auscultating a patients lung, heart and abdominal sounds are part of my 2x a shift assessment/exam.

my first stethoscope was a Littmann Cardio III, which works well in many cases, but not a hospital setting. i then had a Littmann amplified stethoscope , but that got stolen. I replace it with another standard stethoscope that sounded great at home, but didn't work in a hospital with patients.

The challenges are ambient noise (hospitals are noisy places), body habitus and morbidity. i now have a Littmann Core with Eko technology. That amplifies, reduces ambient noise, and also digitally can analyze rhythm and murmurs when linked to an ap on a smart phone.

my typical exam involves listening to the lungs, anterior and posterior. 6 places on the back, usually 4 on the front/side. Right axillary if aspiration pneumonia is suspect. Right middle lobe is most vulnerable to aspiration. 4 positions for the heart, listening to the valves: pulmonic, aortic, tricuspid and bicuspid (mitral). Then 4 quadrants on the abdomen, listening for colon "bowel" sounds.

I have also an EKO Core stethoscope. But i am not working as health care profession. I though i would love that stethoscope, but i dont like the sound. So i dont use it any more.

Do you have any tips to how i can use it better, and maybe see the good with it?

I sometimes use the stethoscope part, with that i mean the cardiology 4 part as a normally stethoscope, or my Littmann Classic 3 for listening to my own body.

Mine gets used at least a couple of times a week. Either me listening to myself, often after I've been working out at home, my partner listening to me when stripped down, or me listening to her. 😃

Is your partner naked when you steth her?

@tallslenderguy Do you think it’s embarrassing to exam patients with stethoscope? And are you listening to them bare chested or with clothes on?

I have also an EKO Core stethoscope. But i am not working as health care profession. I though i would love that stethoscope, but i dont like the sound. So i dont use it any more.

Do you have any tips to how i can use it better, and maybe see the good with it?

I sometimes use the stethoscope part, with that i mean the cardiology 4 part as a normally stethoscope, or my Littmann Classic 3 for listening to my own body.

i think the Cardio III and Cardio IV are great stethoscopes. If you are using it at home or in a more quiet environment, you do not really need the ambient noise reduction. The patients i have in the hospital are critically and chronically ill with many co-morbidities. Large bodies, lots of adipose tissue, makes it harder to hear heart and lung sounds, they sound "distant," so amplification helps. COPD is common and causes a "barrel chest" in many, again can make it harder to hear.

Most of the time i am listening through the patients gown. Again, most are pretty sick with emergent issues and most bring a list of co-morbidities that have to be considered and juggled as we care for the emergent issue. Many patients are bed ridden and do not move or sit up well, so turning on the side or getting the stethoscope under them to listen to the back can be a challenge.

The gowns tie in the back, so typically i listen in the front through the gown. i'm generally pressed for time, and while my exam is thorough, because i've done it thousands of times, i'm pretty fast. Practice is what has made that happen, i know what i am listening for and what i am hearing. if you have others who will let you listen to them, the more you listen, and the greater variety of bodies, the better you will get. The back is usually exposed so i listen on skin on the back usually. Some patients automatically strip when i tell them i'm going to listen to their heart, lungs or abdomen, but most appreciate that i listen through the gown. There's not a lot of dignity in the hospital. Where i work is a teaching hospital and it stays packed most of the time. 95% of the rooms are double occupancy. It's pretty surprising how quickly patients adapt to the environment and just take all kinds of exposure in stride.

Is your partner naked when you steth her?

Not completely naked, in her underwear and bra... But the bra comes off when I want to listen on her boobs. Similarly I'm down to my boxer briefs when she listens to me but I'll lower them when she wants to listen to my femoral pulse.

I listen to my wife's heart and lungs and check her BP every day. I have several stethoscopes and usually use one for about a week then change to another. I also wear my stethoscope around the house most of the time.

2 to 3 times a day sometimes even more, but I don't thinks it's enough if it was up to me I would be using it 24/7. poor ol' sthetey has gotten so much used last 30 years. it's so old been wanting to get a new one but can't seem to find a good quality one. today's stethoscopes seem so cheaply made and expensive.

For me it varies a lot. Recently, I've had severe cravings for auscultation and been listening to my heartbeat while stimulating myself (masturbation, vibrator, or anal play) once or twice a day. I also go through stretches of not being particularly interested either in any or all the above. I think we sometimes cycle in and out to regain that appreciation for it. As with many things, it can get old at times and you need to step away from it to get that enjoyment back.

@tallslenderguy Do you think it’s embarrassing to exam patients with stethoscope? And are you listening to them bare chested or with clothes on?

@Heartexam. Sorry for the delayed reply, just now saw this.

i can imagine the exam is embarrassing for some, particularly a woman as i am listening around the left breast when listening to the heart. Second intercostal space R sternal boarder for aortic valve, Second intercostal space L sternal boarder for pulmonary, fourth intercostal space L boarder for tricuspid and fifth intercostal mid clavicular for the mitral. That last one can be tricky with some women getting under the breast.

In the hospital, the patient is typically gowned and that ties in the back, so the front is covered and the back open more often than not when listening to the lungs. So back lungs are often on skin, heart and ab typically through the gown.

At work pretty much every patient. In medfet exams I do it usually twice with every patient.

I'd say 2 to 3 days a week I'll listen to my heartbeat when I am having solo fun time. Ultimately, heartbeats are a sexual thing for me, so I don't commonly listen to myself when I am not masturbating.

Work related: listen to others' hearts and lungs every day. 100% not sexual nor anything sexual about it; just work at that point.

Once or twice a week - depends on my privacy.

I listen to my own heart once in a while to make sure I'm not dead and to be sure the old pump is not making any weird noises, but I don't really enjoy listening to my own heart. I very much enjoy listening to women's hearts. Over many years, I've had the good fortune to steth about a dozen different women ranging in age from 19 to 54 at the time I stethed them. Most I connected with through this site, through Heartbeat Pleasure, and the various Yahoo heart/steth groups that preceded HBP. All of the women I've stethed told me that I auscultated their hearts more thoroughly than their real docs did. There is no way to thoroughly auscultate a woman's heart without exposing her breasts, which is something that most doctors in the US don't do, at least not unless they suspect pump trouble.

I'm stething my heart almost daily, either with my stethoscope or by sharing my heartbeat on hbp. Of course, normally I prefer to listen to female's hearts but I love to listen to hearts generally, so to my own as well. It's so fantastic to my to hear how my or other hearts react to situations, words, phrases of others. It also stimulates me sexual, leads to excitement and finally to masturbation, which let my heart pound heavily and faster to the end of orgasm.

I have a variety of stethoscopes, some modern some vintage, I’ve used all of them to listen to my own heart and have also used the vintage ones in med play as I prefer to set up a vintage medical room scenario, I even own a white coat😊

I listen to my heart rate with the stethoscope every time I do exercises on the exercise bike at home