Is There a Relation Between Floaters and Tinnitus?

[aniketpatil]

For me tinnitus started in November and just after a month later floaters started appearing. So is there any correlation between Floaters and Tinnitus? People on this forum with floaters share your views.

 

[Mario martz]

I Believe so, i never had floaters before, and now i have them, kinda bothering when outside and its sunny, but i dont pay attention to it anymore.

 

[aniketpatil]

I Believe so, i never had floaters before, and now i have them, kinda bothering when outside and its sunny, but i dont pay attention to it anymore.

Yeah they are annoying as hell

 

[Jamie m]

I also have adies tonic pupil syndrome, super super rare mostly in women where i can make my left eye dialates on its own. So the floaters have really gotten worse but I choose to ignore them. It's weird that it's my left ear when I get T in March but I've had ATPS since September.

 

[william adams]

I have had floaters for years befor I got t and see no difference or increase. I think peoples brains get hyper sensitive about ear noise and perhaps it carries through to vision as well.

 

[JasonP]

Bizarrely, I got some weird visual disturbance a couple weeks back I think after taking some meds for depression and anxiety all at once and doing some hard exercising all at the same time. Maybe this is a coincidence but now I notice if I go outside and look at the trees it seems like I am looking at a light rain sprinkle going on. It isn't too bad though.

 

[Vaba]

There is no way to detect a correlation between the two. All I know is my problematic floater showed up suddenly when I was 15, and I don't know when my tinnitus started, because I was doped up on antidepressants for years to help deal with the floater (0 improvement in mood), so I don't remember when during this period the T started. I think it was around the same time but I'm not sure.

 

[aniketpatil]

When you talk about floaters and tinnitus and people be like "Its nothing get over these stupid things"

 

[whale]

could it be benzos? I had floaters but they stopped after I stopped taking benzos?

 

[shrimp]

I feel like there is. I got T and floaters (never had any before and yes I was always hypervigilant and anxiety prone also before T) around the same time.

 

[Kazue]

Floaters are related to anxiety. Your brain usually ignores floaters but when you're anxious,it notices them. They've been there all your life. Sometimes you just notice them.

 

[Emmi]

I do think there is a connections as well! I did notice floaters two years before the ringing started. Although my T was caused by loud noise, but I think that something is making us neurologically prone for developing T.. and maybe this is linked to why you develop floaters as well. At least I do know some people with T and most of them have floaters. One guy has had T since his childhood and he does even have visual hallucinations... also Trobalt seemed to work for quite a few people and what were some of the side effects? Floaters.. could be coincidence, but I really feel like there is a link.

 

[Pero1234]

Yes... they both become more apparent when you're anxious about them.

 

[Anthonyr]

Yes, I think It's like 80% of people with Visual snow also have tinnitus. Seeing as one of the main symptoms of Visual snow is floaters. I would definitely say there is a connection there.

 

[Mellow7]

I've had visual snow my entire life. The only thing that made me aware of the fact that it 'isn't normal' is because I developed T and started doing research as to its many causes. Only when it is mentioned to me will I pay attention to it and even then it isn't really disconcerting. I do have some floaters as well, but they also have always been present (I remember trying to follow them with my eyes as a kid and turning circles because they would always shift away with eye movement ). I just hope that this T can someday be something that is just as unobtrusive as these things are to me.

 

[Suzerman]

I dont know but I have had floaters since I was 16 years old. They're big and brown and kind of blur my vision from time to time. They've been probably the toughest thing I ever had to deal with apart from tinnitus. I remember feeling very suicidal over them and thinking how I could ever live with such a condition thats just in my vision all the time, but somehow I managed. It took me a good 3 years probably to get used to them, but somehow i did. A day doesn't go by where I dont see them and they annoy me, but at least Ive gotten used to them.

Sometimes I wonder why I have to deal with all of these things and it has occurred to me that it might be related to artificial sweeteners. I always consumed way too much of it through diet cokes, and putting way too many sweeteners in my coffee. I started using sucralose not too long ago in my yoghurt, and it increased my floaters quite a bit, and caused me to have a fungal infection on my tongue and then shortly after this my current tinnitus. I still think it might somehow be related, even though my tinnitus seems to be a neck issue.

I do have trouble deciding what is worse sometimes my pretty bad floaters (probably a 7 in severity) or my really mild tinnitus (probably a 2/3 in severity). My floaters are not that bothersome to me in dark rooms and in the evening they give me relief, whereas tinnitus gives me a break during the day when there's noise and then strikes back in the quiet evenings

 

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