Tinnitus and Visual Snow

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I have than as well. I also tend to get dizzy. I decided to go get it checked out by an ear, nose and throat specialist. I had an MRI and cat scan. It showed complete blockage of the speniol sinus cavity. That has been probably causing a lot of those symptoms. I just thought it was life. Dizziness was getting worse in he last few months but its likely that I had this for years. If i ignored it, symptoms would have gotten worse. My point is that it may be nothing but its good to er on the side of caution. Many years of living like that...not fun. Just had surgery outcome unknown as I am still recovering. Surgery was 5 days ago.

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When I get snow, that's all I can see. Just like the TV when cable goes out.

Wow, that sounds very severe. What triggers it?

About 7 years ago in high school I got some temporary tinnitus when my science teacher done an experiment where he'd fill a bottle with two unstable gasses and fire it out of a window from the gasses reacting with eachother. That was what was supposed to happen but instead of the force shooting through the bottleneck and propelling it forward, it just exploded in the classroom and sending bits of plastic bottle everywhere. Me and the rest of the class had a loud tinnitus effect for about 5 minutes afterwards. XD

Hm, dont know if I actually have that kind of snow it speaks of in the article. I do have something though. When its bright, I look up in the sky or snow or something else that is bright, I see alot of dark and white spots, like tv-noise. Its rather annoying and I try to blink it away.. but it never works.

I have tinnitus though. Stress-related. If I feel sick (as in having a cold), sad or irritated, stressed etc, it increases. Then I can barely sleep since I only hear the noise.. I always hear it. But when Im ok its rather faint, so I can think it away.

Same here, no visual snow but I do have eye floaters. I notice them primarily when I am driving and best when I'm looking out the windshield and wearing my glasses (I do still see them if I take my glasses off).


As far as tinnitus goes, I get pulsate tinnitus and it really seems to correlate with my diet; however, I've not been able to get a strong hold on what foods just yet.

I have tinnitus. Too much noise....

I have mild tinnitus. It only bothers me if it's very quiet.

high stress

I also have both tinnitus and vs. both for as long as I can remember.

I know this is an old post, but holy cow, I always thought I had something going on but didn't know what it was called. Visual snow, wow, thanks.

Do those people that get a ringing sensation from loud noise also get it from emotional triggers? I've never heard of that. I've never heard someone say "that moved me so much my ears are ringing".

I don't have Tinnitus but just as most people without Tinnitus can experience a ringing sensation from loud noise, I can get it from an emotional trigger. If something strikes me with a sense of meaning or I make some kind of connection when I think about it a ringing noise can be triggered.


I don't consider what I experience to be visual snow because it's what most people have described experiencing in darkness but only in darkness. If I got it in all lighting conditions I would consider it visual snow. I can still see it in most lighting conditions but if it's too bright it retreats to the walls and objects. It's not the same as the blue field entopic phenomenon in that I can see it against surfaces of all colours regardless of how bright or dark they are. I can only see it against the objects during normal lighting conditions. When it gets darker the visual snow comes away from the objects and fills the room so that it looks a lot more like the picture depicting visual snow in the article. It's always there in some form but it doesn't become a classic visual snow effect until there is a certain amount of darkness.

I thought this was "normal" -- is it not?

For tinnitus, I have it now. I can often focus my attention off it, but when I pay attention, or get tired and can't filter it, it's horrible. I listen to podcasts on my iPad at night in order to block it.

Same. I remember as a kid staring out at a wall and seeing visual snow and thinking how much it looked like TV static. I've always had tinnitus to some degree, too. I thought both were normal.

Not really. Everyone gets this sort of thing from time to time but I don't significantly have this.

I have something where I can smell things up my nose which aren't existing at the moment and I can tell it's just up my nose, but that might be due to sinus issues.