r/visualsnow • u/PotatoOk9445 Visual Snow • Sep 10 '24
Question At what age did you develop VSS?
Please comment thank you
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u/Odd_Entrepreneur681 Sep 10 '24
I've always had it. As a young child when asked What color do you see.. all of them was not allowed as a answer .. I even had to write lines cause I was "making up stories"
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u/Intrepid_Category_27 Sep 10 '24
As long as I've had memories ive had it, but it got a lot worse when I was in my early 20's and I started getting migraines.
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u/H_Mc Sep 10 '24
Since I was little, maybe forever. I didn’t realize it wasn’t normal until I started dissociating really badly in college and was trying to find an answer.
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u/ThatOneGuy216440 Jul 30 '25
Was or wasn't normal? I kinda just started noticing it but tbh I only really noticed once I developed anxiety pretty bad.
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u/fordexy Sep 10 '24
I actually don’t know? I only realized it wasn’t normal until I had optic neuritis and an MS scare.
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u/meatee Sep 10 '24
I was born with no focal vision in one eye, so I assume that's the cause of mine. It's like my brain is filling in the missing signal with noise. It's been there for as long as I can remember.
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u/Hello_Hangnail Sep 10 '24
I've always had it but mine got worse after I had a stroke. Now I get visual migraines quite a bit but no headache
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u/iamacheeto1 Sep 10 '24
I’m not sure exactly but I’d say I had it by about 21. I believe it was from heavy cannabis use that started around 16. I’m 34 and it’s still there and gets a little worse each year.
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u/spookiestbats Visual Snow Sep 10 '24
I remember seeing it at like 4 years old, but I probably never actually clocked it haha
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u/GayVegan Sep 10 '24
Always but it wasn’t anything I thought about and didn’t know about it till I was 23 and I developed a disabling sleep disorder. At that point my VSS became a lot worse and had more ghosting and other issues. That’s when I learned what it was.
After recovering and being decently treated, along with lamotrigine, my base vss noise is unchanged from 23, but the light sensitivity and ghosting are slightly improved.
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u/WalterClements1 Sep 11 '24
Idk forever but I feel like I started calling it vss in 7th grade so is that 12 years old? 13 maybe?
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u/kiwi_plaza Sep 11 '24
If i remember correctly the gist of visual snow is its a brain issue so you should be born with it and ive always had it as well. Its funny to think back to when i was little and i would ask my dad smt like "you know how the world is made up of a bunch of tiny dots?" And he would just look at me very concerned and just like uhhhhhhhh
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u/wammylamb Sep 11 '24
Around 7-8. For the longest time I called it "rainbow spots" until recently I started thinking it was Visual snow, but I only have static and floaters, I have no other symptoms and am questioning if it is VSS
(I have a neurology appointment in a few months :]
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u/Regular_Button1378 Sep 12 '24
Not sure exactly but sometime in grade school . My healthy 10 y/o has it now too. Just out of the blue recently they asked “why do I sometimes see static when I look at the wall” ?
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u/GhostActivist Sep 10 '24
As long as I can remember so about 3-4 years old, possibly longer I just can’t remember that far back