Hello,Visual Snow.

Today it is called visual snow or palinopsia, growing up it was called crazy and weird. From a young age, I learned that describing symptoms of visual snow had implications. This led me to experience depersonalization and detachment. So as I grew into an adult, I trained myself to ignore the condition but silently endure the effects. The symptoms I experienced were static vision, floating colours, palinopsia, contrast issues, impaired night vision, and enhanced entoptic phenomena. Eventually, I decided that enough was enough and I would not let this condition negatively impact my quality of life anymore. This was when I thought seeking medical advice would be useful but only left me confused, drained and frustrated. The doctors and nurses, were incredible and did try their best with what they knew. At that time there was a limited amount of research and no cure. However, I did receive a diagnosis and that introduced some relief. So now, I am figuring out ways I can manage this myself, my wellbeing and help others who experience the same or similar conditions. Thank goodness there is more research being developed into to topic of visual snow and from a neurological perspective. Also, I am finding more people sharing their own stories about their experience with visual snow. Who knows, our experience can help the future somehow.

From Pink Mango