Poll: Visual Snow, Floaters, Highly Sensitive Person, Derealization, Intellect, Pains, Anxiety

[David077]

Please mark everything that concerns you.

 

[Anthonyr]

I have had visual snow ever since I can remember. I also have BFS (benign fasciculation syndrome). Those two things are definitely related/linked to Tinnitus. Yet, according to every test and exam. I am in perfect health. It's so frustrating.

 

[Mellow7]

Also have had visual snow for as long as I can remember. Never though much of it, until I started reading up on the causes of T. I've got quite some blue field entoptic specs whizzing around a blue sky as well. The snow is the most apparant when I'm in dark rooms. My T onset was during a period of high stress (exams). I believe most people have this visual snow in some kind of degree. Some people just have to look harder for it than others. People who are highly sensitive, may indeed be predisposed to seeing it better. I do have to mention that I do not have any other visual symptoms that are generally attributed to Visual Snow Syndrome.

EDIT: Interesting that you mention 'derealization'. After inhaling some asthma medication a few years ago, I had a very sudden onset of what I could call a 'derealized' depth perception. It has gotten better (probably through habituation) over the years, but it is still there. It's sometimes as if the dimension of things isn't quite right, but never have I reached for something that was further away than I perceived it to be. Needless to say, most doctors regarded me with a puzzled look when I told them this and I'm not even sure I want to know what they thought of me (and I hadn't mentioned the visual snow at that point!).

 

[Holly1987]

I got visual snow for the first time in my life exactly 3 weeks before my tinnitus. It never occurred to me they might be connected. The visual snow doesn't worry me so I never thought about it..

 

[David077]

When I was child I saw visual snow only when I wanted to see it and it was not in full field of vision, i saw it only as figures that I imagine in my head. My hypnotist doctor told me that I have a very high power of self-confidence(hope I wrote it right).

Much before I got T, I noticided that my VS "spilled" to all my field of vision after smoking or PTSD.

In my opinion all the things that I write in a pool may be related to each other and to tinnitus that caused by drugs using, so if some one who already have VS (for example) and still not have tinnitus had to avoid using psychiatric or street drugs in any way possible. In my opinion, the best way to deal with stress is visit a good psychologist.

Hope for the sufferers, I suffered from also two things that I mentioned in the pool, of the one of them I recovered through stress control (without drugs helping) and willpower, of the second through prayer+fast and after full physical exertion.

 

[dpdx]

I developed eye floaters (Dark) and Visual Snow after my major T increase that happened in January.