For Those That Experienced Strange Visual Symptoms After Getting Tinnitus

You aren't crazy. I've had Tinnitus for 3.5 months and in the last month I have really noticed my eye floaters flare up as well as other strange visual symptoms. I'd explain this to doctors and they look at me like I'm a looney hypochondriac who googled my symptoms. Turns out damaged hearing can affect your vision. It is called a thalamocortical dysrhythmia.

A NY Times article on it: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/health/research/02prof.html

Scientific Study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC24801/

YouTube video of a sufferer:

Visual Snow Syndrome and Its Relationship to...

 

yes I heard many people say tinnitus came with visual snow, I am so lucky I do not have visual snow.

 

9:35 he says "Rational Treatments for tinnitus" that gets me excited. I wonder what the irrational treatments are considered to be? *coughs TRT.

 

I have eye floaters. Recently since my tinnitus got very severe I got dark eye floaters, mind you I never had this in my life. Not even when I had Mild T.

 

Chad you’re not alone I have gotten it really bad lately. Almost like an acid trip with my visuals. I can see inside my eye lens and make images with the floaters. They’re relentless and even when masking my tinnitus a great reminder it’s still there

 

I got it too! It's Visual Snow Syndrome. Luckily I have a friend who doesn't have T that has had it her whole life to the degree I have it and so I was able to adapt quickly and forget about it most days.

 

Same thing happened with me. Always had clear eye floaters that I only saw when I looked at the sky. Once the tinnitus happened, I got dark ones that I can see everywhere on top of the clear squiggly lines.

 

Yup, mine are unbearable. Can't go outside without really dark sunglasses otherwise it is a cascade of floaters. Just when I thought I could adjust and get use to the ringing in my head, I'm reminded of it every minute when I see a swirl of gnats flying around in my eyes.

 

I get this in varying degrees. Can be squiggles or darker floaters or visual snow.

Annoying, certainly, but preferable to the tinnitus

 

Same. How is your T?

 

I have good days and bad days still. Still ringing away. I find my brain occasionally forgetting about it when I have conversations sometimes but it comes back as soon as I'm done chatting so I suppose its some form of habituation occurring. I'm not sure what bugs me more now, the ringing or the eye floaters. How about yours?

 

tinnitus by far really bothers me.

 

@Chad Lawton any updates man?

 

Still got the eye floaters and still ringing away. Ear ringing has improved a hair but it still causes me a great deal of distress. Trying to use TRT principles to improve my mental state. I have good days and bad days with it.

 

my visual snow occurred before my tinnitus; it's quite severe, or at least significant, but some how i never think about it aside from threads like this, I don't think I'd treat it even if a drug became available.

Tinnitus, on the other hand...