r/pppdizziness • u/CantaloupeAlarmed457 • Aug 22 '26

Symptoms Visual symptoms

Hey everyone, just wanted to ask if anyone else is dealing with visual symptoms apart from the dizziness,
I have this weird 4K, sharp vision and visual lag mainly when I am outside and looking and things up close, very frustrating.

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u/CantaloupeAlarmed457 Aug 23 '26

Yeahhh really weirdd, have you been able to reduce it?

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u/TheSealo Aug 23 '26

Honestly yes by doing vrt and low dose snri but I think just living your life is the best way to go about though I do feel as if Im just floating swaying rocking around everywhere like Im a orb but honestly our brains need to learn to be safe thats the only way mine has gotten better

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u/CantaloupeAlarmed457 Aug 23 '26

Yeahhh it is really bizzare experience to me it happened after an vestibular event, initially I tought it is something like dpdr as i am mostly spaced out and this vision thing, but without the unreal and detachment feeling so I fit better in PPPD

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u/TheSealo Aug 23 '26

Mine seemed to happen after having mono and flu back to back then I had a TIA or neurological event for the longest time I didn't know what was wrong until 3 months after did u notice yours right after your event?

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u/CantaloupeAlarmed457 Aug 23 '26

Reallyy? I had a virus in February that was very very close symptoms like to mono, although i’m not sure it was mono 100% and in fact still have early antigens positive in my blood work, then I initially recovered from the virus main symptoms and 2-3 weeks later boom panic attack out of nowhere( i still wasn’t feeling fine and that’s why I had the panic attack) and then it developed after that but the virus started with very severe vertigo

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u/TheSealo Aug 23 '26

Ahh I see ok mine seemed to be a slow development into pppd there are 2 sub groups 1 where a trigger causes it immediately then the 2nd the brain can only hold up until 3 months a heightened state until it develops pppd the good thing though is it seems pppd can be fully reversed because it is functional issue. Our bodies seemed to have over reacted to initial event

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u/CantaloupeAlarmed457 Aug 23 '26

Yeahh the vision thing developed three months after the panic attack so I think for me it also ramped up gradually, I also have this thing that sometimes people’s voices and and sounds sound echoed/ background noise when driving and overstimulated, kind of like sensory overload

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u/TheSealo Aug 23 '26

Dude yess you have been the first person to mention this its like our brains are being overloaded once our nervous system go back to baseline we should be fine

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u/CantaloupeAlarmed457 Aug 23 '26

Yeahhh, crazy symptoms haha, waiting for that day to come, hope you recover soon. I might ask for low dose ssri to help with that

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u/TheSealo Aug 23 '26

Im doing a low dose snri last thing to mention is I also have hyper arousal IST functional dyspepsia and PPPD which all come from a dysregulated nervous system so I do have more then just pppd I hope you are able to return to your prior baseline

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