I don't even know how to describe this. I've had visual snow ever since I can remember. But this one's rather new.

Maybe it's because I've been looking at a computer screen for too long these past few days and I'm not wearing my glasses.

But when I'm close to a white wall or any surface that has a light color and I move my eyes to the left and right it feels like these vertical lines follow me like after images of the wall Maybe. but they're very sudden and they disappear immediately. And when I move my eyes up and down the lines turn horizontal.

I don't know if I could explain it well. Does anyone else get this?

Who suffers this

Sorry for typos, my eyes are still dilated from testing. Im in my 20s and this is my first floater. Today I had a sudden tiny afterimage/bright little spot in my vision that looked like I stared into a bright light, even though I didn't. It's like a tiny oval shape, not a line. It was like in an instant, I was looking at my phone, then wondered what this afterimage was and when it would go away. It never went away. Its extremely noticable and gets in the way of my reading and typing. And its visible when eyes arr closed. It seems like its mainly in one eye but its extremely hard to tell or describe. And it moves around as I move my eyeball. I've never had anything like this before but I do have static vision (VSS) but not severely

I was terrified so went to the ER thinking its a retina detachment or something. It took hrs but they called an opthomaligist and did an eye ultrasound, pressure test, and then dilated them and looked with lights. They found nothing. I asked if this is permanent and they just said "It's probably a floater, your brain will just get used to it." So now I'm here. I'm extremelt sad and depressed. Where do I go from this? How can this happen so suddenly?

I'm an artist, I do artwork to make money, I'm terrified

Hey guys, I’m gonna be honest and say I’m not formally diagnosed but I’m working on getting it, I’ve been referred to a neurologist. But I worry maybe it’s something else. I always feel like I’m lying to my self and the tv static is just me forcing it, and I don’t want to be like that.

Main question: how long is not long enough? I do have after images, they mostly show when I close my eyes but after noon tree lines and higher contrast things plague what I see. I can see them clearly for maybe a few minutes then they kind of just reappear briefly when I blink. Lower contrast teams (my hand ms holding my phone, my car dash, etc) are pretty short.

Lights are the worst, they last for 5-10+ minutes. But every thing I see says hours. I guess I just want some affirmation that it’s either yay or nay. Static is there, and things “feel” like they’re still there even if I don’t explicitly see it. I hope I didn’t waste your time, but I sometimes feel like I’m lying to myself on what I see.

Does anyone get streak of light downwards from vss in the Starburst?

Sorry bare with me for the story I’m about to explain, within the past month I have gone to my ophthalmologist twice, but it was because they were scared about a possible tear in my eye with my last visit being Sept 2nd. They ran every test they could for my eye and they said there are no issues. Fast forward Monday morning Sept 7th I wake up and I had trouble adjusting my eyes and notice I started seeing dots in my vision, not just one eye but both. Looked like i was seeing static even with my eyes closed. I was worried at first that I had detached my retina and went to the ER, they did a few eye tests, took some blood and did a CT scan and said everything is normal. I scheduled the next day a visit back to my ophthalmologist and explained what I was seeing and she said it’s something called Visual snow and she doesn’t treat it and I have to see a neurologist or a neuro-ophthalmologist. I was a visit with neuro-ophthalmologist until the end of this month, and my visual snow has been having me feel really miserable especially at night. If there’s any at home remedies or anything I can do to help alleviate this issue it would be much appreciated. It really has me in a funk.

people with palinopsia, how troublesome is it to get eye checkups, since they're always up in there with flashlights directly pointed in your eye? how long do the afterimages last? anyone had any experiences lately?

so there was an led light in my peripheral vision for about 5 mins and when i turned it off the dark afterimage lasted about 8-9 minutes. but i feel like there's still a bit of residue even after half an hour or so. how long do these afterimages last for you guys?

Whenever I closed my eyes I always see geometric pattern and worm the worm weirdly only have 3 primary color which is RGB there's no other color than that also sometimes when I open my eye isee worm tho buts it's more transparent

Hello!

I only recently started to suspect I have VSS. Like many, I had thought everybody sees the world the same way. I can't remember when this started or if I've always had it.

Scrolling through what others have posted suggests my symptoms are on the more manageable side. I see tiny flashing colorful dots across the whole field of vision, even with my eyes closed.

I sometimes get floaters or trailing afterimages, especially from bright lights, which I suppose is "normal" also among people without VSS? I relate some of the more drastic experiences with afterimages to heavy exercise and consequently momentary insufficient supply of oxygen to the brain.

I have no experiences with migraine.

The issue I struggle with the most is reading. Sometimes I struggle quite a lot to focus, and the colorful flickering is especially annoying around black text on white background. It could be maybe described as colorful "layers" behind the black letters flashing and shifting in and out of sync. My eyes seem to get tired quite easily.

Yesterday I went to get my vision checked. I described some of my symptoms to the optician, who was clearly astounded. He said he had read about VSS during his studies but never heard anyone tell him they have these symptoms.

Does this sound like VSS to you, and are there any tips, adjustments etc. you would recommend to help with reading? I need to do quite a lot of it since I'm currently doing a PhD.

I've been dealing with vision issues and neck pain since January, though not VSS. That came a few months ago after a neurologist recommended I try Lyrica.

I remember during the first week, the bottoms of my feet hurt when I walked around. At the two week mark my lower back near the tailbone also started hurting and my neck issues intensified to a unbearable degree. This is where I began to see persistent hazy static and afterimages as well as when the migraines started. I stopped cold turkey there at about two and a half weeks.

Three months later now and the static and afterimages still remain. The neurologist put me on Nortriptyline as a alternative to Gab and Lyrica. This has reduced the static significantly (not completely) and halted the migraines, but the afterimages are mostly unchanged.

I'd like to ask those that developed VSS through prescription medications if this ever lets up at a point or is this something I'll need to manage for the rest of my life? I'm a writer as well as an art appreciator and it's very much so made those two hobbies difficult to engage with.

a lot of autistic people and people with ADHD can experience visual snow syndrome more likely than a neurotypical will so I would say if you suspect you are neurodivergent ore you haven't learnt about neurodivergence but you've always been the weird kid ore you know stuff like that definitely look up about it and learnanother reminder is that pots can trigger and especially worsen visual snow syndrome so that's another thing to look out for it and other chronic illnessesand especially hypermobile ehlers-danlos syndrome it can really really affect visual snow syndrome so if you guys have not heard of it please learn about it

can someone give me some hope please… you can scroll through my posts if u need more context

Specifically: Lights off -> strobing vision for a few seconds -> instant transition into slow rhythmic pulses

Anyone uses these? Experiences? They should be vss safe for sleep as far as I understand correctly?