Help, Can't Seem to Shake Off This Visual Snow Thing

[PatrickG]

I have contact with many people who got bad VS with mild T, and vice versa. Many has gotten VS from medication like antidepressants. Some had gotten it from anxiety and others from things like child birth. But some also has gotten it from "out of the blue". I know how hard it is and I have contact with people who has it way worse than me and their life is indeed very hard because of it.

 

[maltese]

This is not true sadly. If has nothing to do with being hyperaware. VS is a syndrome, just like T. If you have it mild you can easily ignore it. If you have it bad (like me) you notice it everywhere.

Patrick, I was referring to OP's situation.

I see mine over everything, no matter of brightness, color or structure. I don't notice it at all. It was always like that.

When I don't notice it, It's "gone". Someone/something needs to remind of it, otherwise I don't see it.

 

[Sam Bridge]

Patrick, I was referring to OP's situation.

I see mine over everything, no matter of brightness, color or structure. I don't notice it at all. It was always like that.

When I don't notice it, It's "gone". Someone/something needs to remind of it, otherwise I don't see it.

This describes it best for me. I have always had it though, I remember starting at the ceiling as a kid and i would start seeing what i can only describe as moving pixels. But now for example as @maltese its only if i think about it i start seeing it.

 

[JurgenG]

Patrick, I was referring to OP's situation.

I see mine over everything, no matter of brightness, color or structure. I don't notice it at all. It was always like that.

When I don't notice it, It's "gone". Someone/something needs to remind of it, otherwise I don't see it.

I hope this indeed the case for me, and that My T or anxious reactions on T didnt make it worse..
Wonder if it can get less as well.

 

[Daveyrvancleef]

Mine's is 24/7, non stop what I've found is called 'gaze instability'. When I look at something especially in the distance it's never still...Like it bobs about as if looking at something floating on the water.

When looking at the TV or people's faces for some reason they are doubled but not really double, almost like my brain doesn't add the two images together properly (this still happens when either eye is closed).

If I look at a busy pattern it shimmers and flickers, I guess my brain can't make sense of it.

I've bad visual snow too, and haze contrast sensitivity similar to what you'd experience from being in sunlight to going indoors. Also, depth perception is poor.

It's an absolute nightmare, in ADDITION to tinnitus, and hearing loss, all my symptoms started with antidepressants and stress and still persist almost a year later, I literally just want to die.

Life is just messing with us. We are playing on hard mode. I also have what you describe (VS, contrast sensitivity). Besides that my eyes can't see very well in the dark now and I'm having a hard time looking at far away objects. Also the star bursts at night are horrible. Better stay positive xD at least there are more of us.

 

[SleeplessSoul]

I read this thread over and I have the vision issues as well and I have superior canal dehiscence.
Google that because I read that SCD causes those very same eye problems.

 

[lolkas]

I read this thread over and I have the vision issues as well and I have superior canal dehiscence.
Google that because I read that SCD causes those very same eye problems.

Thanks for your post @SleeplessSoul but i dont think is our case here. These folks dont have Tinnitus as symptom and main thing there is that loud noises give them migraines/nausea/vertigo. None of us in this thread have this, otherwise i would be happiest man in the world right now since it looks like they fix this with surgery.

 

[SleeplessSoul]

They don't have tinnitus as a symptom? Just migraines /nausea and vertigo from loud noise?
I have all of that including obnoxious tinnitus and SCD can cause most of it.
And do not be happy if you had it because the truth is, that they do NOT operate to fix SCD unless you are completely disabled by the vertigo because it is major brain surgery.
I go to the top hospital in my state for eye and ear and they will not operate.
So for some of the people on this thread , SCD could be a possibility. I didn't know I had it until recently after some hearing tests and talking with my doctor about strange symptoms (visual and hearing eyes blinking etc) that a special CT scan revealed it.

 

[Cal18]

As far as I'm concerned, this the only other symptom that follows alongside with T in so many ways. No definitive cure, neurologists turn turn their backs on it, sometimes benzos can help it and many times it happens in conjunction with T. As a few of you have already mentioned, it is some form of "static" just like the T that our brains are not able to filter out.

 

[lolkas]

They don't have tinnitus as a symptom? Just migraines /nausea and vertigo from loud noise?
I have all of that including obnoxious tinnitus and SCD can cause most of it.
And do not be happy if you had it because the truth is, that they do NOT operate to fix SCD unless you are completely disabled by the vertigo because it is major brain surgery.
I go to the top hospital in my state for eye and ear and they will not operate.
So for some of the people on this thread , SCD could be a possibility. I didn't know I had it until recently after some hearing tests and talking with my doctor about strange symptoms (visual and hearing eyes blinking etc) that a special CT scan revealed it.

Taking my words back. I looked at multiple YouTube videos and it kinda looked like all their symptoms have resolved. Tinnitus was not in any of these (dofferent posts, different mix of symptoms) but non we're actually mentioning Tinnitus.

@Cal18 yeah, that is the only thing I can relay this to.

 

[shasta0863]

Crazy reading this thread.

I've recently out of the blue started noticing mine. It's very bad now, making computer terrible as there just seems to be something on background that doesn't look right.

I don't know how I can go from my mind accepting/ignoring it to then, suddenly visible, out of nowhere. Unless it got worse, which is what I now fear.

I don't even know if this is Visual snow. I don't see static on T.V during the day. I see in low lighting, or even mild lighting in doors, especially on dark objects, a type of translucent overlay on top, that lightly shimmers. It feels more intense now. I told myself before it's just my brain trying to pull in as much light as possible and filling in the gaps in darker areas or lower light areas, but since it just randomly seems worse, telling myself that brings no alleviation.

This is currently worse than T, and my T is bad. Hilariously sad.