Meet our #Warrioroftheweek of the week, Marcos Felipe Hurtado Ferro
Spotlight on: Marcos
Hi, my name is Marcos, and I’m from Brazil.
In my opinion, I think we’ve all always had this; however, the symptoms get stronger and clearer at a certain age. For me, it was at 23.
I had severe dizziness, and all the symptoms of visual snow syndrome started since then. At first, when I didn’t know about the syndrome, I thought I was going crazy because there were a lot of symptoms of derealization and depersonalization. The most distressing symptom, in my opinion, was experiencing depression.
After much research, I believe I do have visual snow, and come to think of it, I always had migraines with aura when I was younger – sometimes just aura without a headache.
Here are the symptoms I have:
- Traces in my vision after looking at something
- I see things trembling sometimes
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Cloudy vision
- Ringing in my ears
- Sensitivity to light
- Derealization
- Depersonalization
- Dizziness
- Instability
- I lose focus easily
- Flashes of light in my vision with eyes open and close
There must be more that I forgot now, hahaha… anyway, I just hope there is a treatment that eases all this and brings us more quality of life because it’s horrible to live with so much fear and uncertainty.
