visual snow
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anyone deal with this?
long story short, i got a flu in late 2022. lost my sense of smell, then sometime after came anhedonia along with my sight getting worse. still dealing with recovering all 3 somehow.
it feels like ive had trouble visually processing things for the past year. everything either appears "flat" or like im staring through a tube. couple days ago i was a bit sleep deprived and saw dancing white spots while going on a walk, kind of like mosquitos or flies fluttering around on a summer day. after looking it up, it did line up with this.
for the longest time i thought it might be an issue with my eyeballs or sinuses or something, but after some reading and factoring in the anhedonia, it seems more like a brain issue. the only thing i could really glean from the old forum was someone suggesting thiamine, which cant hurt to try. but i wanted to see if anyone here has any other ideas.
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@Norwegian-Mugabe ive had that before, its not really what im dealing with around the clock. its more like "logical" static around what im looking at, or tunnel vision. ie if i look at a landscape i know i can see everything fine, but i can only really process the one point im looking at instead of the entire thing.
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been trying to live with it and pray it goes away by improving my health in general, but i feel its getting worse somedays. ive been taking a few b vitamins but have noticed no changes.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37466404/
i saw it suggested its an issue with the thalamus, excitotoxicity, or an issue with 5-HT receptors. which seems in line with my hunch that its a problem with brain signals misfiring and not my eyes. but nothing conclusive and i have no idea how to approach it still. it's a bit hard for me to grasp.
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I'm not suggesting you have this condition but thiamine might help you
Acute hearing and visual loss caused by thiamine deficiency
This article might be relevant too. Mitochondrial dysfunction is common following flu like illnesses.
Thiamine Deficiency Amid a Constellation of Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disorders
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@Peatly i started taking bulksupplements thiamine the past 2 weeks (along with taurine and riboflavine). thus far nothing, but ill keep it up for a while. ill give these links a more thorough read, thank you.
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been a while and am still dealing with this, though i think i've realized it might have to do with my sinuses.
i've gotten more aware of the pain/discomfort and it feels like it's located around my sinus areas. possible that the flu i got (maybe covid, didn't get tested) has chronically inflamed them or done some damage, and everything else is downstream from that.
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I developed visual snow a month ago after around 3 months of adding 1g L-Pyroglutamic Acid, Kestose, and Dioscorea Nipponica. I'm still dealing with it, and it seems to fluctuate in intensity. Sometimes I can read things well enough, other times I struggle. I'm still trying to pin down the cause and confounding factors.
My guess as to what caused mine was the L-Pyroglutamic Acid supplement increasing glutamate too much, the only other thing I can suspect are gut issues from the Kestose or liver issues from Dioscorea Nipponica which contains protodioscin just like Tribulus which is known to be hard on the liver as well. The only other possibility is that this is some sort of COVID after effect, as a family member had a confirmed case just before this occurred, though I never tested positive.
@haidut Any experience or input with these type of symptom, especially in relation to pyroglutamic acid?
We should really dig into this more, since like PFS at one point, there seems to be little information as to what can cause this and what relieves it specifically.
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@Charger yeah, these all sound plausible. i've had constipation, digestive issues, white tongue etc. for years and haven't been able to clear it up. i recall reading some of that might be gall related, as far as liver issues go.
it being excess glutamate seems to line up with what little i've found on the topic, too. i feel like that might be the main cause, but i got no idea how to lower it effectively.i've always had a low amount of visual "grain" i'd see at night since i was a kid, which i just assumed to be normal. after talking with some friends, turns out it's not. i'm assuming covid at the very least worsened those symptoms since i'm dealing with it at day now, along with all the new symptoms.
thanks for replying. it's encouraging to see someone else trying to solve this puzzle.
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id try cyproheptadine and maybe maybe maybe but be careful look into minocycline as it is a nervous system anti inflammatory and anti viral, but when first taking it, it can cause visual disturbances and rarely more serious ones, so im saying just look into it maybe.
other than that, liver/vitamin A, pineapple / bromelain, natto / nattokinase
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I recommend trying Levetiracetam, I’ve been taking it for 3 years, it reduces glutamate well, I also read reviews that for some people it removed visual snow.
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have tried a whole bottle of cypro, a lot of liver, pineapple and nattokinase. maybe the latter 2 not extensively enough, but so far nothing's moved the needle.
levetiracetam sounds promising, but the health system in my country is garbage. a friend of mine recommended i try naltrexone to recover my sense of smell, since it worked for her mother. doctor stonewalled me despite agreeing that it sounds like it would help. if i manage to find a more loose doc i'll look into it.
