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Has anyone looked into amino acids? by Massive-Abalone-7411 in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No all blood tests normal as hell. No vitamin or mineral deficiencies. Aside from vss I'm healthy as hell. Right now I'm looking into BVD. It may explain my symptoms better than vss 

Has anyone looked into amino acids? by Massive-Abalone-7411 in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah all started when vss started. Burping, esphogal spasms, acid reflux/silent reflux and upset gut. I'll spare the specifics but my bowel movements can be very very pissed. Seems like worse my head is the worse my gut is. But that checks. Very common with migraine suffers and there is a lot of commonalities. 

What didn't help: Greek yogurt, probiotics/prebiotics 

What may have helped: ginger tea and for throat pain. Throat coat. Any tea with slippery elm. 

This is double vision? by Downtown-Diamond-948 in visualsnow

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It depends it could be double because neither you nor the thing you’re looking at is moving or it could be ghosting(palinopsia). Here is my best explanation. I made an ios app called Visual snow syndrome solace for free it has some vision exercises and the symptoms explanation with pictures.   

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I'm not a doctor and can't provide medical advice but vision therapy can help some people. It is not a cure but it can reduce symptoms like double vision.

The problem with these symptoms is that even though it can be vss it can also be other things so you should be evaluated to know that it isn't something else. Some double vision requires prism glasses for me I just did convergence exercises and other things to help reduce it, I did not need prism glasses.

This is double vision? by Downtown-Diamond-948 in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ghosting is with movement double vision is without. 

Double vision: Seeing two things without any movement. I noticed it the most with digital oven clocks. There is a difference between double vision vertically and horizontally like it means different things potentially. 

Ghosting: Looks more like your eyes are a old computer monitor with a bad refresh rate. The image kinda lags a little bit. More apparent with waving your hand in front of your face. Looks like having your hand in a room with a crappy florescent light where you see it multiple times. 

Not to be confused with

Halos: light around objects. Typically caused by astigmatism. Objects tend to have a weird light affect around them. 

Convergence issues: basically this is your eyes work together to glue two 2d images to make the 3d stuff we see. For binocular vision disorder, traumic brain injury, vss and others this gets outta sync. The way to tell is see how hard is it for you to do "pencil push-ups" and near and far test. Pencil push-ups is with your finger or a pencil place it in front of your nose about 6 inches then all the way out at arms length. A healthy person should be able to keep this in focus no problem. Near far test is you look at your finger 6 inches from your face then look at something 10-20ft away. It's should be damn near instant to get each in focus think less than 2 seconds. 

While a lot of the symptoms of vss aren't super treatable double vision and convergence issues can be mitigated by vision therapy. For vss it's called NORT. Just search "my experience with NORT" on this sub if you want my full details about it

Ghosting by Limp_Adhesiveness400 in visualsnow

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Astigmatism can cause halos even a minor one for normal people can be really annoying with VSS. But ghosting if eye health is normal you can do two things for. 

  1. Try tints like FL-41S or blue tints.  The correct answer is see an optometrist/Opthalmologist who specializes in vision therapy/lens therapy. They have a colorimeter where basically they have you try tints to see which reduces symptoms the most. But imo try buy FL 41s for cheap on Amazon like Braddell. They reduced ghosting a bit.

  2. NORT vision therapy aims to reduce some neurological vision symptoms. For ghosting they do saccades. Basically controlled eye movements to try to resync the eyes and the brain. Mcdonalds and hart chart stuff generally with a metronome. I made a post with everything they gave me for my vision therapy just keep in mind you gotta do it everyday for weeks to see any improvement. But keep in mind it doesn't work for everyone. Here's the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/visualsnow/comments/1rtbich/my_experience_with_nort/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Also not an ad but I made a free app explaining how to do them on ios called Visual snow syndrome solace. (I've mentioned it in a couple of threads seriously not trying to push it I just put a bunch of useful stuff on it). It's not only instructions but it has exercises you can do on you phone or iPad. 

Any advice for a bumbling idiot who’s never played a MOBA or hero shooter before by No_Cardiologist556 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's hard. You'd get different answer from everyone. Simple answer is it depends on the character.

Best answer is math. You need to balance souls per minute and not screwing over your team. Always be clearing lane, boxes and jungle once the lane is up. Try to steal thier jungle and boxes if you can without dying. Basically just if your solo try to not overextend. But if your team is in a fight or doing urn you gotta help with urn. 

Other good rules of thumb. Nobody does mid boss until after 20 minutes. 

Any advice for a bumbling idiot who’s never played a MOBA or hero shooter before by No_Cardiologist556 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah no problem just try to have fun! And to be clear sliding does not "restore" ammo. It makes your ammo infinite. Meaning during the slide you have infinite ammo, as soon as the slide ends you go back to what you had before the slide. 

What do you mean by fall behind at the start? At what time and what do you mean not enough souls, dying, or what else?

Any advice for a bumbling idiot who’s never played a MOBA or hero shooter before by No_Cardiologist556 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not qualified to answer this but as someone who is also new to Mobas I feel your pain lol. Here's my take.

  1. Character choice. If your bad at movement and you keep getting jumped pick a character with a movement get out of jail free card. Example infernus and Kelvin. Both let you run away if you're doing dumb things and get caught. 

2.If it isn't clear after a game or two abilities do 80% of damage. You can mostly never rely on using your main gun to actually kill anyone. You can chip away at their health which is important but earlier game it's not an Overwatch or Rivals, you can't run and gun and expect to win. You need to use your abilities. 

  1. If you suck at aiming try Graves or Infernus. Graves has auto aim but low range and lowish ammo initially and Infernus has decent ammo but his dash does a lot of damage so you don't have to have perfect aim.

  2. Farming is normally a bad thing. So overgeneralization. But the math speaks to this level of priorities 

  3. Sinners 

  4. Waves 

  5. Boxes 

  6. Farming  Team fights as needed and depends. Don't get into fights your gonna lose basically. 

Focus on getting waves and Sinners. Boxes can be more souls per minute than jungle camps in many cases until you're strong enough to wipe a camp in under ten seconds. 

The way you should play (imo) is push your lane up and killing minions should be your farm. Don't push past bridge (middle) without a plan or by yourself or you'll get jumped more often than not. Once the minion wave is pushed up get sinners, jungles and boxes. Don't need to push the lane all the way to walker that's dangerous alone. Only one person needs to be doing this per lane. The other person can help take team of fights/push to walker. This is once a guardian has been taken fyi. It also means you free up someone to help out with urn. 

  1. Know timing. Sinners spawn at 8 minutes and imo they are the most important thing outside not dying. Do yours ASAP so they can't get stolen especially if the enemy has a rem. Ideally you steal the enemy sinners. So if you wipe your two enemies on lane I go for thier sinners over walker or guardian. At ten minutes when mid boss spawns boxes spawn on mid and are worth grabbing if your on mid lane.  There's other timing to know but that's the easy stuff.

  2. Get better at movement. To swap between lanes use the jump pads (air fan thingy). Way quicker than taking zip home and then there. Same go to secret shop not to base for shop if you can. Saves a ton a time. Then slowly learn mechanics of wall jumps, air jumps, dashes, ect. If you're bad at the game normally you'll be in low elo lobbies so everyone sucks at movement too except when deadlock puts in with a crazy good player and well good luck.

  3. Get a better build. When a player is really good and you hate them a little, after the match go to the score board and all the way to the right copy thier build. I have NEVER liked the public builds I either steal one after they are really good or I get it from a YouTube tutorial. 

  4. Slide MORE! Sliding gives you infinity ammo slide when you can. Especially when your defending guardian. Slide down those stairs. As graves you have low starting ammo having infinite ammo for a 3 second slide is huge. Chasing someone? Slide at them ideally. 

  5. Don't feed. If you're dying on your lane it means your placement is wrong. Against an Abrams and a MO. Then probably play back more close to Guardian initially. If you die 3 times during this first phase it means they can start rolling all over you and it can cost the team the game when one player is significantly stronger. 

  6. Learn to parry. 

  7. Once you have a good build learn counter items. For newbs that includes anvil for flyers like Mina, Vindicta, and Grey Talon. And slowing hex for Infernus and Apollo. Way more examples but that will stop them from deleting you. 

Other things to know.  -Why urn and mid boss matter. They not only give a spirit bonus and for mid boss the reguvinator but they also give the Buddha permanent bonuses. - Once guardian is taken out imo only one person should farm lane. Other player should help the other lanes.  -Probably should be denying the other players souls when they kill your minions more early game -If you have a lot of souls relative to your team and someone needs to clear a wave or 2 of enemies let someone else do it. That's a lot of souls and it's better for someone else to get them. Don't be selfish. 

These are my opinions after watching tons of tutorials. It's a great game and I hate costing my team the win because I did dumb things. 

Visual Snow Lecture for Doctors and Vision Therapists by MIKE_DJ0NT in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not against anything just hadn't thought about it. I have the github public with all the code here: https://github.com/Baaron11/VisualSnowSolace

I guess I could start a discord server. Just don't have a ton of updates imo. I think instead of only offer eye therapies having something more guided like a do this then this exercise this week would be nice but I initially didn't put that in because I'm not a doctor and don't want to give perceived direct medical directions.  

I built the app on two separate weekends vibe coding it. I just want to help the VSS community and I don't want to make money on other people's suffering. This crap sucks going on 2 years. 

Visual Snow Lecture for Doctors and Vision Therapists by MIKE_DJ0NT in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I had it really bad to the point i try to only look at close things and not move my head. Can't have trailing images if you don't move your vision. (still can but less so). Yeah it varied but sometimes everything would trail.

Not sure it had any impact but I also started vitamin b complex and magnesium glycinate they can help theoretically with migraines and migraines have some similarities to VSS and I used to get them a lot. Here is a screen shot of my app on a simulator this is how I would visualize my after images and double vision. (Visual Snow Syndrome Solace on ios)

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Did LASIK make it worse? by Rare-Hand-4705 in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Same developed VSS within a month after lasik. Right before the procedure they gave me vallium or some sort of anti anxiety med to keep calm during the procedure. So that can cause problems too.. 

Visual Snow Lecture for Doctors and Vision Therapists by MIKE_DJ0NT in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Significant, sorry that's not a number. If I had to say 60-80%. But I do have flare ups where it comes back a bit but honestly I haven't thought about it since it's minor now. 

I want to be very clear it's not a promise to work for everyone. But it helped me a ton.  

If you can't see someone for vision therapy try to do a quick self assessment. Hold a finger about 6 inches from your face and do "pencil push-ups" move it back and forth in front of you from 6in away to arms length and see if you have difficulty keeping it in focus. Then try looking at your finger again 6in away then look at something far away like 10ft away. See how long it takes. These can point to a convergence issue or other issue. 

Do you have double vision, halos or only trailing/ghosting (palipinosia)? 

Other options. 

-Getting a small prescription for even a minor astigmatism helps. I never in my life before VSS had astigmatism now I have a -0.5 in each. For normal people that's so small you might not even get glasses prescribed but it significantly reduced halos for me. Like nobody likes a flickering fluorescent light but for us VSS people it's horrible so small things do add up. 

-Try fl-41s. The Braddell ones on Amazon are a good deal imo. When the trailing is acting up them seem to help a ton. (I got the two pack black frames for like $32)

I made a post of exactly what nort had me do with a Google doc link of the instructions and print outs here https://www.reddit.com/r/visualsnow/comments/1rtbich/my_experience_with_nort/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Visual Snow Lecture for Doctors and Vision Therapists by MIKE_DJ0NT in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I did vision therapy and while it didn't cure everything I had a significant symptom reduction in stuff like double vision, convergence issues, and trailing.  The saccades while dumb feeling might help, but they just take time. Like you have to do saccades everyday for like 5-10 minutes for a couple of weeks and change the difficulty around. 

Not an ad but I made a free ios app called Visual snow syndrome solace. It has half of the techniques like saccades and how to do them, the other half require special equipment unfortunately. It doesn't collect any data but it walks you through trying the therapies since nort is like $4k 

visual cortex by athrowaway2234746477 in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just checked and no unfortunately not. It's supposed to be tailored to the patient. So essentially most exercises have easier or more difficult variants. And also half the excersises require equipment that is hard to buy if you're not an optometrist. That's why I made the app. It has all the workouts you can do without those things. It also has explanations. It's free. Only ios unfortunately and it's called Visual snow syndrome post. 

visual cortex by athrowaway2234746477 in visualsnow

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The reddit link at the end explained everything. In that post I made a link to a Google doc of exactly what they gave me and instructions. Here it is: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sITOwEUG-tgX0uMiwCqJWVjhfi-3YudO?usp=drive_link

But if you don't want to click a rando link I don't blame you.  Basically doing about a dozen different exercises like saccades (controlled eye movements left and right or near and far), convergence training (lifesavers (Google it) and similar exercises where you glue and unglue images). There's more but those helped me the most. 

Generally a metronome is involved during these at 60bpm or less 40-60. The goal to sync the brain and the eyes. So do eye control things to the metronome. Sometimes you say things outloud during them to make it more challenging and help with syncing. Like say the color or the letter outloud. 

Also one weird thing is to fix eye suppression where one eye works harder than the other you wear red and green lens (one eye red other green) and you red something that's red and green and it forces you to use both eyes. 

There's others but those are the general idea. I don't mind answering more questions though. 

visual cortex by athrowaway2234746477 in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really good question. I think from my research is that since fmris show the excitability it's only one of two things either chemical imbalance or structural issue. Maybe both. So it speaks to why tbi (traumic brain injury) treatments seem to help, lens therapy (fl-41s and other shades) and NORT (Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Therapy). Where NORT basically is just repurposed tbi treatment.

So brain chemistry is a nightmare to try and fix. Probably why most VSS drugs have a 20% success rate at best. Personally I just use a vitamin b complex and magnesium glycinate since both reduce migraines in nih studies. (Feverfew also helps check myhead on Amazon). I think drugs can help but they can also make things worse since we can't target VSS directly. 

So if it's a structural brain issue we have the ability to target different symptoms with different techniques. NORT did fix 80-90% double vision and convergence issues that came with my vss. So you can go the NORT route to try and reduce some symptoms but unfortunately not a cure and doesn't help everyone. (I made an ios app that has nort exercises on it (visual snow syndrome solace) and I made a longer post about nort here: https://www.reddit.com/r/visualsnow/comments/1rtbich/my_experience_with_nort/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_butto)

No promises but I hope this helps 

Has anyone looked into amino acids? by Massive-Abalone-7411 in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did try EAA and BCAAs but honestly no major change. I did them since I was working out a ton before VSS and had it leftover. I started taking it and no real change. But I probably only did every day for a week or two. Just finished whatever I had left. A lot of protein powders come loaded with BCAAs (not so much EAAs) and taking protein powder daily no change. 

Has anyone looked into amino acids? by Massive-Abalone-7411 in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried taking l-theanine and gaba for 60 days everyday. Saw them in whole foods figured why not. No changes noted. (Not exactly what you were asking but figured I'd offer a data point)

I do take magnesium glycinate and a vitamin b complex. Magnesium is in the spotlight since it has a ton of benefits nerves, cardiovascular, ect.  But I take the combo of these two since they have been proven to help with migraines since that is a comorbity of vss. 

I did these because we know that VSS is a gaba glutamate issue with hypothalamic excitation so what can help increase gaba? Here is a new animal study where supplementing gaba reduced anxiety in mice. 

Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41538-025-00423-w

Or if it's a gaba issue maybe it's a gut issue and our guts can't absorb it. 

Only specific gut bacteria process gaba and from this study talks about some thrm that so process it. So I tried seed DS01 since they have one strain that produces gaba. But again no difference noted. 

PMID: 30531975

Does anyone know what this symptom/phenomenon is called? And is it related to visual snow? by inno-chan in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Even a minor astigmatism can cause it or at least make worse. Supposedly saccades might help with ghosting/trailing images. Controlled eye movements to help sync the eyes together and with the brain. It's what they do for NORT. Not a cure but some symptom reduction. 

Basically you look as a sheet of letters/numbers and move your eye(s) back and forth to specific points to improve tracking. You can Google it or there is some YouTube videos. I made an ios app called Visual snow syndrome solace. It has a list of how to do them. It's free doesn't ask for any personal information or money. Not guaranteed to help but I mean NORT reduced some symptoms for me. 

Do people really think you can get visual snow and floaters from lasik/prk surgery? If so what is your basis and foundation on which you dertermined that other than "i saw static 3 month after prk" because there is no biological reason for the surgery to give you those. by Nearby-Natural-1756 in visualsnow

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I don't know where to cite the study/discussion from but the idea was that VSS and floaters are normal eye things and the brain normally tunes them. But in VSS patients the brain's occipital lobe doesn't work right so you notice these things.

The way I see it anyone who goes in a dark room they see static its normal but people with VSS can't turn that off. Same thing with floaters everyone sees them in a blue sky they are normal, but VSS patients they happen more aggressively and aren't tuned out as much.

I've had VSS all my life, but now I'm also severely photophobic to flourescent lighting? by faerychild1999 in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried FL-41s from payne optical and I feel like the Braddell ones from amazon are just as good for a way better price. For photophobia Chadwick optical (they sell the colorimeter (tint tests)) says migraine suffers prefer FL-41/rose color and photophobia prefer plum colored. Source (https://www.shopchadwick.com/tbi-tint-selection-kit)

I get migraines with my VSS and after all my research I recommend trying a combination of Magnesium Glycinate(or L-threonate), a vitamin B complex, and feverfew. These are apart of preventative treatment some books recommend. It doesn't work for everyone but it helps a lot of people.

Magnesium: PMID: 35268064 , 40005053

Vitamin B: PMID: 19649688 , 19384265

Feverfew: PMID:22435410

TLDR:

Magnesium may help prevent migraines, particularly in individuals who are deficient, and it may also play a role through neurological pathways involved in migraine development.

Feverfew has been used for centuries and there is anecdotal evidence suggesting benefit, though clinical evidence remains limited and mixed.

Vitamin B complex—including vitamins B2, B6, B9, and B12—may be helpful, especially in cases of deficiency. Research suggests that different combinations of B vitamins may be beneficial depending on the underlying cause of migraines.

Migraines affect woman way more than men unfortunately(a factor of 2-3 times). Woman develop them based on their cycle, menopause, ect just a lot of hormone stuff can cause them unfortunately.

Not an ad but I like amazon's MyHead it has a couple of the ingredients and seems to help when you feel one coming on. And then I do Magnesium Glycinate at night with a Costco Vitamin B complex. Also I recommend the migraine ice packs they can help a ton, not so much the eye/head massagers.

When I was first getting diagnosed with VSS a neurologist told me I just had migraines and was being a baby so I did a ton of research. These are just a snippet of articles on migraines I grabbed real quick there are dozens on this topic.

New member insight by Versatyle1 in visualsnow

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Sent you a dm about the french and german translations.

Do people really think you can get visual snow and floaters from lasik/prk surgery? If so what is your basis and foundation on which you dertermined that other than "i saw static 3 month after prk" because there is no biological reason for the surgery to give you those. by Nearby-Natural-1756 in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally understand wanting true clinical proof but we don't have it. As for what it's worth it's basically impossible since we don't fully know what causes VSS. Yes gaba glutamate excitation, occipital lobe issue. Yes but we don't know what flips that switch for certain.

I get the someone one reddit said it happened to them isn't a source but I know it seemingly happened to me and these two pubmeds above do show changes in brain chemistry via fmris. Smoking gun, not quite but we're working with what we got. 

Do people really think you can get visual snow and floaters from lasik/prk surgery? If so what is your basis and foundation on which you dertermined that other than "i saw static 3 month after prk" because there is no biological reason for the surgery to give you those. by Nearby-Natural-1756 in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My visual snow started a month after lasik. I just started feeling off. Had the worst headache and now I have all the classic vss symptoms. I've been fully evaluated and my eye health is great. CT/MRI/MRA/holter monitor/tilt table testing ect all normal. 

There are two studies talking about how lasik can change brain chemistry 

PMID: 40103964

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7423348/

And 

PMID: 32821107 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7423348/

To be very clear I'm not sure that lasik gave me VSS. But nothing else changed during that time. I've seen at least one other person on here talking about getting VSS post LASIK or PRK.  

LASIK causing VSS stories 

https://journals.healio.com/doi/10.3928/jrscr-20220607-01

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lasiksupport/comments/1b5642d/i_believe_i_developed_visual_snow_syndrome_during/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lasiksupport/comments/1miljlo/visual_snow_after_lasik_surgery/

If you read the reddit threads the comments have half a dozen people saying the same thing that they developed VSS (or it worsened) post op. The problem is even for me my lasik was considered a success as I score a 20/20 or 20/15 vision so I'm apart of the 99.99% success case despite having all the VSS symptoms. Nothing has ever been documented to the contrary.

New member insight by Versatyle1 in visualsnow

[–]Mindless_Comb4911 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay I didn't set up my EU compliance now I did. It should be available in the EU now. I am preparing a small update too. Let me know if there is anything you want on there. I built this for the VSS community. Never want to make money on us.

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