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Pulsating spot with heartbeat

I'm a 22 year old healthy guy, australian. Have no known eye conditions, I do have slightly high blood pressure I've been told.

My problem is, whenever I stand up really quick my heart beats faster and if I look at a bright background, in the same spots in BOTH eyes, theres a pulsating area in sync with my blood/heartbeat. It isn't a blind spot I can see in it. This doesnt happen if I intensely exercise to raise my heartbeat, it only happens if Im laying/sitting down.
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177275 tn?1511755244
If you have not had an eye exam by an Eye MD ophthalmologist in the last 12 months you need to schedule a full exam for safety sake. However for most healthy people it is completely normal, I have it myself. I exercise, have been a runner and have a physiologic slow pulse one cause.  That is one cause.
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Yes, I've had a eye exam in the last 12 months. They never ''picked up anything related to this''. I'm assuming it's related to blood pressure in one way or another? Does this sound like an eye problem to you, or more so something else/normal
It kind of resemebles a faint ''phosphene'' if that helps
It is not something that would show up on an eye exam.  It is more common in people with hypertension, also people with large 'pulse pressure' that means a large difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure.  I'm sure I have it because I'm a running have has slow pulse.  Yes, I know what they look like.
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