#553 Sorami

Sorami [subject #553], My VS picture, 2008. "This is what I'm seeing, but smaller dots, and the color is the dots, but I wasn't able to do that with my computer." © 2008 Sorami

"1. Name or screen name (optional): Sorami

2. Email (optional):

3. Location (optional):

4. Age: 14

5. Sex: F

6. Nationality and Race (optional): USA, Caucasian, Mostly Irish and Scottish

7. Do you have classic migraine (migraine with aura) or common migraine (migraine without aura)? When did it begin?

No.

8. What do you take for your classic or common migraine and does it help?

N/A

9. Have you been diagnosed with persistent aura (prolonged migraine aura status)?

No.

10. What is your visual problem and how long does it last?

I believe it is VS, but I'm not sure. What I see are extremely small dots all flashing and rotating. They are all different colors and cover all of my vision all the time, even when I close my eyes. It's much more prominent in the dark, they become much more frantic and brighter. I've had it for all my life.

11. Any other problems that you think might be related?

Not that I can think of.

12. What do you take or do for your vision problem and does it help?

Nothing.

13. Have you found a trigger for your vision problem?

It never stops.

14. What tests have you had and the results?

N/A

15. Drug history (pre VS):

None.

16. Drug history (post VS - effect on VS - negative, positive, not at all):

None.

17. Do you have a positive family history for migraine? If yes, who is affected?

Yes, my mother and her sisters.

18. Other information you want to provide? I am near sighted, but only very little."

(Sorami [subject #553], Yuku forum Visual snow or static - General discussions - Sticky - Sofia Greene's survey about persistent visual disturbances, April 1, 2008)

"My neuro-ophthalmologist told me that what I was seeing was a form of floaters (partially because he doesn't believe me at all). He also told me most people had them, but no one ever makes a big deal about it."

(Sorami [subject #553], Yuku forum Visual snow or static - General discussions - My sister's Doctor..., April 2, 2008)

"I've been able to make little pictures, like a crudely drawn eye, with my static. Only when my eyes are closed though."

(Sorami [subject #553], Yuku forum Visual snow or static - General discussions - Can anyone controls any aspects of snow/static?, April 2, 2008)

"All it is, is just a drawn eye, not like an actual eye or anything like that. Almost like an outline.

I'm not extremely sure how it works, but I can close my eyes and focus on the word eye for example, and it just forms out of the static."

(Sorami [subject #553], Yuku forum Visual snow or static - General discussions - Sorami, April 3 and 4, 2008)

Sorami [subject #553], Ideogenic visual hallucination of butterfly seein in visual snow, 2008. "The first one is the butterfly." © 2008 Sorami (larger image see here)

"I suppose it works with any word, I just tried with the word butterfly and it made almost like a first grader's drawing of it out of the static. I see the image of a butterfly, but cartoonish."

(Sorami [subject #553], Yuku forum Visual snow or static - General discussions - Sorami, April 3 and 4, 2008)

Sorami [subject #553], Ideogenic visual hallucination of circles sein in visual snow, 2008. "Second is the circles." © 2008 Sorami (larger image see here)

Upon being asked whether that works for geometric figures as well, e.g. thinking of circles, triangles or squares, she replied:

"Yes it does work for them.

It doesn't work with my eyes open or not that I can see, most likely because I am focusing on the things around me."

(Sorami [subject #553], Yuku forum Visual snow or static - General discussions - Sorami, April 2, 2008)

"As for VS in dreams, if I do have it, I haven't noticed. I barely remember dreams anyways."

(Sorami [subject #553], Yuku forum Visual snow or static - General discussions - Sorami, April 4, 2008)

"I noticed that sometimes, when I start to daydream a little, or zone out, my visual snow would turn to this very bright yellow/white in the left corner of my vision and growing to fill up almost my whole vision to the point where I couldn't really see, and got brighter and brighter, and then it stopped. This happened for a while, even when I blinked and changed what I was looking at. Anyone else see this?"

(Sorami [subject #553], Yuku forum Visual snow or static - General discussions - Anyone have this?, April 25, 2008)

The duration of this experience "really depends, normally from 30 seconds to maybe three minutes."

(Sorami [subject #553], Yuku forum Visual snow or static - General discussions - Anyone have this?, April 26, 2008)

"What I mean by zoning out, is like my mind wanders off and I start thinking of other things, then when I start focusing again it will start up."

(Sorami [subject #553], Yuku forum Visual snow or static - General discussions - Anyone have this?, April 26, 2008)

"It normally happens when I'm zoned out, but it's happened perhaps once or twice when I was paying attention. I started seeing this maybe two, three months ago?"

(Sorami [subject #553], Yuku forum Visual snow or static - General discussions - Anyone have this?, April 26, 2008)

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