Help Is it normal for the right carotid artery to have a stronger pulse?

[CoolGuy9]

Lately I have been practicing compressing my carotid arteries and I can usually find my right one pretty easily, but the left one's pulse just doesn't feel as strong. Also I don't know if this is me being stupid or what, but it feels like it's not perfectly asymmetrical.

 

[Life_and_Death]

I got curious after taking a guess that youre probably right dominant so i googled it. Sometimes other forums hold answers

Should my pulse be much stronger on the left of my neck than the right?

Answer (1 of 9): Brilliant answer by Dr Nichols; after all, he has examined and treated patients first-hand for 30 years. Just one or two small additions, which your doctor will do anyway:- 1. Perhaps more so some years ago when we depended more on clinical symptoms and signs rather than the mo...

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Continued to read and a few people were saying it should be the same and some said that it could be different. If you want to check the wiki page on it, i did read that variances are possible so take from all of that what you will.

 

[CoolGuy9]

I got curious after taking a guess that youre probably right dominant so i googled it. Sometimes other forums hold answers

Should my pulse be much stronger on the left of my neck than the right?

Answer (1 of 9): Brilliant answer by Dr Nichols; after all, he has examined and treated patients first-hand for 30 years. Just one or two small additions, which your doctor will do anyway:- 1. Perhaps more so some years ago when we depended more on clinical symptoms and signs rather than the mo...

www.quora.com

Continued to read and a few people were saying it should be the same and some said that it could be different. If you want to check the wiki page on it, i did read that variances are possible so take from all of that what you will.

Thanks for the link. I'm still not certain if it was stronger on that one spot or if I was trying to check for the pulse a bit differently.