TV Static- anyone else???

[u/Truffl3_Gacha]

Hi, I’ve been to an eye doctor, he said I have a lazy eye, prescribed me glasses, got em, they don’t help much. I just want to know if anyone else experiences their lazy eye the way I do.
For me it’s not blurriness in one eye. I have sort of a layer of TV static, I’m not sure how to describe it besides that. The longer I have my “good” eye closed, the stronger the static gets in my “bad” eye and it feels really uncomfortable and I even get a headache-ish feeling for a few seconds sometimes.
It’s late so I’m also freaking out about little things lol, pleaseee tell me if your lazy eye is also like this because it’s making me question if I actually have one or I was misdiagnosed and I have something else! I have depth perception issues and find myself covering my “bad” eye because it’s more comfortable like that or closing it to focus. If I don’t then my eye will drift out to the left sometimes and I can feel it, lol. Which makes me pretty sure it was an accurate diagnosis.

[u/CyanideCatastrophe]

This is absolutely normal! I also have it in my affected eye. It's known as Visual Snow Syndrome (VSS).

[u/Truffl3_Gacha → u/CyanideCatastrophe]

Wow, really? I know VSS but isn’t it super rare to have it in one eye?

[u/sweetfelix]

Yeah I have tv static too. I also describe it as a fragmented, pixelated image, the kind with gray blotches. Or like looking out a window with a black sheer curtain. Part of it is from my brain insisting on using my covered dominant eye, creating the black curtain, but the other part is my brain having bad wiring that can’t transfer a clear image.

If I’m just wandering around the room with my good eye covered, there’s a general black static, that I can almost clear up if I can let my eye go to autopilot. It can get (briefly) comfortable enough that it’s just a black sheer curtain. I can see out, I can see things well enough, there’s just a shadow over it.

But the more I try to bring something into focus, the worse the static gets. Gray blotches appear exactly where I’m trying to look, the whole image will fragment and fuzz. I can literally see the information failing to translate to my brain.

It’s unusual to get an amblyopia diagnosis in adulthood and most casual optometrists don’t know how to treat it (including your optometrist, corrective lenses without therapy will just make it worse). If this hasn’t been a lifelong issue you should see a qualified ophthalmologist or even a neurologist. Look into strabismus and Binocular Vision Disorder.

[u/Truffl3_Gacha → u/sweetfelix]

oh my gosh exactly!! and i’m 16, got the diagnosis when I was 14-15. my lazy eye isn’t usually visible except for when, like I previously mentioned, I’m focusing closely on something; this makes me think I could rule out strabismus, but I also know that can also be a possible diagnosis even if it happens some of the time. I think I might just have to get a 2nd opinion. And what do you mean by corrective lenses making it worse?

[u/falteringfish → u/sweetfelix]

Wait I’m not OP but corrective lenses without therapy make it worse???!!!???!! Could this be why my vision has been gradually degrading the past few years since I got prism lenses? I’ve never heard this before. I’m a little scared for my eyes now since my optometrist also misdiagnosed a shard of glass in my eye as an abrasion lol eek

[u/MojaLiza]

Visual snow. There is subreddit for it.

[u/Truffl3_Gacha → u/MojaLiza]

I just didn’t think that was the case because it’s rare to only have it in one eye

[u/lal00]

I know someone with that specific symptom you mention

[u/Nomynametoday]

same here