Visuelle Störungen – Verrückte Symptome

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First time poster but have read many posts for that last couple of years. I suffer from anxiety and chronic stress as many posters do. My symptoms are listed below as best I can explain them.

After Images- Can be from any little thing.

Clearish White Transient Lines- This is in dim conditions, could be first thing in the morning leaving for work will it’s still dark outside or could be returning from work when dark outside. I see whitish clear lines bouncing off the sidewalk, porch, house, everything! This doesn’t happen everyday. It comes and goes.

Patterns move and mess with my eyes without having to stare at them for an extended period of time..

Streaks of light when I blink or squint. This is probably my eyelashes causing this but I just recently noticed this.

Tiny black dots on walls. I don’t think this is floaters. They’re tiny and they disappear and reappear in different locations very, very, quickly.

Seeing ghost images coming off objects. The best example I can give is if I walk through the kitchen with the lights off and look at the led clock on the oven, the lit clock remains in place but I see a replicate of that clock bouncing off to the side. Another example, we were on a late night flight and I looked at the tiny lights on the back of the seats and there were replicates of them moving from left to right while the ones on the seat remained in place. When i walk through the house and it’s dim lit I see a transient line bounce out to the side of walls, door jams, etc.

Seeing different colors radiating from colors. A guy at work had on a vibrant yeloowish/green safety vest and i would notice a bluish purple color radiate from the side of it). When I’m on the computer a blue box could radiate a yellowish color to the side of it.

When I stand close to a white wall and move my eyes from left to right I see whitish/clearish glitchy looking lines almost mild electricity.

I see shimmers in vision, flickers, and flashes.

See a pinpoint flash at bottom of eye and it moves around to the side and disappears. This is usually laying in bed with my eyes closed.

When turning the lights on or off or a bright light shining in my eyes when driving can cause me to see a white flash that seems to be at the bottom of my eye.

I know these symptoms are odd but I’ve had no luck telling this to doctors, eye doctors, and neurologist so I thought it’d be worth a shot to post it on here to see if anyone has experienced anything similar or has found and answer. The last eye doctor said if there is a problem it is definitely in the brain and not in the eye. The neurologist said I have a great looking brain and if there is a problem it is definitely in the eye and not the brain.

I have been to 1 doctor, 2 ophthalmologists, 1 optometrist, and 1 neurologist. I have had lots of labs, 2 MRI’s a CT scan and everything has came back clear. I’m very worried because I have a lovely wife and 2 daughters that I provide for and can’t get over the fear that I’ll be unable to continue doing that if I don’t find the root cause of this and fix it before it’s too late.

Thanks in advance for reading my post. I hope everyone finds the cause and cure for what they’re battling.

Best of luck!
Jake

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sorry you are going through this Jacob. I’ve had chronic anxiety and stress for a very long time along with a very weird visual disturbances. Not constantly but when I am highly stressed. I haven’t had all of yours but I have had some of them. If you had an mri or another test on your brain and you were told it looks great then I wouldn’t worry about the brain. And if the eye doctor couldn’t find anything wrong then there is a good chance your visual issues are coming from stress and anxiety.
try really hard to relax yourself and your mind every day and see if those visual issues go away. practice deep breathing exercises for anxiety. You can find so many of those on YouTube as well as meditations for complete relaxation, stress and anxiety, etc. give that a try for a while. Try to find a resolution for things that are causing you stress. You could even speak to a counselor who can help you relax and give you some great ideas. Take one day at a time and I do hope everything settles down for you! :heart:

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I have also been having visual disturbances and have posted but no replies. since you bad a clean mri it sounds like its nothing neurological. i had a ct scan and mri last year and they were both fine. i was worried about a tumor but my doc was ruling out MS. I saw an opthamologist and he dx me with something very minor. Now im having vision issues again and im too scared to go back during the holiday season. i dont want to ruin christmas for my kids and family. i like to try setting a date and seeing if my symptoms are better by then. Easier said than done. I wish you the best!

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I try to schedule my appointments out in hopes the symptoms have passed by then as well! January will mark 2 years of the eye symptoms. It’s exhausting constantly looking up disorders and symptoms and trying to figure this out all on my own. I broke down last week and booked another neurologist apt for the end of January and may try a neuro ophthalmologist as well. My wife is urging me to accept it’s all chronic stress and anxiety and to ignore symptoms but I’m scared if I don’t continue to search and figure this out that one day it’ll all be too late. Doctors don’t seem to listen and/or care and I think most are so programmed to look for the common and obvious problems so I have taken it into my own hands to dig deeper into the rare disorders and have educated myself on what tests I need to rule things out. I have been deep into natural healing but have began to get frustrated and lose trust in that as well. I’ll pray that we all get the answers that we’re searching for.

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i understand! Most of the time i can find at least a few other things it could be, including anxiety. This time i dont see anything else it could be other than a brain tumor. All of the symptoms just line up. Normally i rush to the dr but this time im avoiding it for awhile. I dont want to ruin the holidays for my kids. My vision is getting worse and it is a daily freak out. I had clear scans last year but that doesnt mean something hasn’t popped up. Even at my last opthamologist visit he said “well sometimes we get the diagnoses wrong but this time i think we are on the right track.” (Optic Nerve drusen). That makes me even more anxious.

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Do you ever have a hard time focusing on objects when up close? Example – when I am looking out the kitchen window, the slats on the window are hard for me to focus on if I’m looking into the yard. Then if I focus on the slats it’s hard for me to see the yard.

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I don’t want to send you down a rabbit hole, but ever since I have started living a more holistic lifestyle it has eased my anxiety about certain health problems. I encourage you to watch 2 things and see what you think. 1. Unless on Netflix. Some of the episodes are a little far out there for me personally but give those a try. 2. Heal on Amazon Prime. I am by no means giving medical advice, but these personally took my fears of Cancer and MS away. My current fear is there is something more structural or genetic wrong and am trying to fully believe that even those things can heal as well.

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I’ll have to try that exact experiment. I had my wife standing at the kitchen window over the weekend because I have noticed if I look at lines close up it appears there are more of them and when I squint it turns back into one. For her she was seeing one line and when she squinted in turned into multiple. I have also started noticing when I look at a light source or something bright and blink or squint it causes the lights to stretch down toward the ground. I’m assuming it’s my eyelashes causing it and I just didn’t notice until now- 36 years old. I honestly think (HOPE) we are so in tune with everything that we are noticing normal things that our brains normally just look past because they’re normal.

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that seems to be very much but I am experiencing as well. I’ve read a lot about different types of double vision. It’s the cause of the double vision that has me concerned. I am actually not concerned about MS at all it’s only the cancer and tumor fears. I’m glad to know I’m not the only one that sees things like the window experiment.

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Watch those shows I recommended in a previous reply. I’m confident those will ease your fears.

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1 doctor, 2 ophthalmologists, 1 optometrist, a1 neurologist lots of labs, 2 MRI’s a CT scan
if seeing that number of people experts professional with decades of clinical experience doesn’t convince you there is nothing scary going on then nothing said in this forum will settle your fears. At some point you need to cut the cord and move on and seek anxiety therapy.

the future you fear you may not have. you may have an accident and be gone. Live in the present breath your family in and enjoy all that you have. trust the professionals and leave it all in their hands.

i spent 2 years fearing MS im not out of the woods but i dont care anymore what will be will be. in the UK its no so easy get access to the number of assurances you have had.

in your case it could be floaters, anxiety or ideopathic. if mri are clear then thats bulletproof. theres no point going down the rabbit whole of smouldering conditions it will destroy your life. i wish someone shook me and told me stop because i lost eveything while i was busy seeking answers for my helath.