VS

[Geet]

My symptoms resembles that of visual snow. TV like screen at night and darkness .. and  floating dots on white surface or wall.Doctors say they are floaters.

My question is -
1. Is it a disease ?
2. Any solution available. It has been long since I see them (some 10-15 years .. may be  more than that also).
3. Is there something we can do abt it.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

I don't comment about VS at all.

JCH II MD

[jason80]

To Dr. Hagan,
I have VS that occurred about the same time I got other MS-like symptoms (at this point, diagnosis is negative).

IIUC, no one's VS condition has been associated with serious neurological disease.

Is your comment referring to people with VS with no other neurological symptoms or does it include with other neurological symptoms with a negative diagnosis? Thanks

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

My only association with visual snow is in this forum and I see a lot of patients each year. You have pretty much done your home work. Even if it is VS there seems to be no treatment for it. As long as nothing changes you might just do "watchful waiting". Although there have bee quite a few posts (about 20) on VS no-one has had it do damage to the eye nor be due to serious neurolgoical disease.

JCH III MD

[Geet]

Hi Dr Hagan,

I have gone thru the term and various forums on google.
Following things I have concluded -

1. VS could be because of HPPD - a psychiatric disease (ruling out this for my case).
2. VS could be because of some eye problem - retinal detachment etc (ruling out this also - gone thru retinal check up - it was fine).
3. Because of any neurological disease - etiology : I went to a neurologist and he refused to do any CAT / MRI scan, probably because the symptoms are from decade and is not accompanied with headache and fits.

So he said - what my physiacian had advised me to ignore them and they mite be floaters (may be wat we see in forum as entopic phenomena).

What do u suggest, shall we say Visual snow is nothing but Floaters and should be treated as entopic phenomena - hypersensitivity to something. They may vary from person to person.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

I have no experience with visual snow. There is a good discussion on Wikipedia and you can google the term.

JCH III MD