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31 Oct 2011, 11:25 am

I just read on one of my facebook groups that heart murmurs can be a sign of autism. Has anyone else every heard of this before? I've never heard of the link, but am quite interested since I have a heart murmur that I was born with.

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31 Oct 2011, 11:30 am

I have one, and no doctor has ever said it has anything to do with Autism.

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31 Oct 2011, 11:39 am

I was born with a heart murmur too. Never heard of the connection.

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31 Oct 2011, 11:46 am

I was born with a heart murmur. Don't know if there's any connection.

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31 Oct 2011, 12:07 pm

I've never had a heart murmur before. I didn't even know what it was until I saw this thread and quickly looked up it's definition on Google.

I know an NT who was born with a heart murmur but she was born with lots of other things wrong with her heart too.

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31 Oct 2011, 12:37 pm

Heart murmurs can be signs of many different, unrelated things. Anxiety causes transient heart murmurs. People with AS can suffer from anxiety. Some medications can cause heart murmurs too.

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31 Oct 2011, 2:13 pm

I was also born with a heart murmur.

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31 Oct 2011, 5:20 pm

Heart murmurs are extremely common--nearly half of all children have them, and most of the time they don't mean a thing. So, really, I'm surprised we don't have half the board on here saying they had heart murmurs as children.

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31 Oct 2011, 6:37 pm

For the record, I don't have a heart murmur.

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31 Oct 2011, 6:43 pm

No heart murmur here.

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31 Oct 2011, 8:59 pm

I had a slight one at birth. It is correcting itself as I get older

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31 Oct 2011, 10:10 pm

That's an interesting question. I've never heard of anyone with Autism having a heart murmur, but obviously it does happen. I would love to read any studies done on this.

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01 Nov 2011, 6:32 am

When I was growing up a doctor discovered I had a heart murmor.

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01 Nov 2011, 6:49 pm

Interestingly enough, I had a heart murmur as a baby. I was born with a hernia. My appendix also had to be taken out as a baby. Luckily I don't have those problems today. Still, I am not sure if there is a connection with Autism.

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