Should i try get tested/diagnosed?
I started to suspect i had visual snow around the age of 14, its been a few years now but i suspected it because in the opticians i got told i had 20/20 vision although when trying to read anything on a page, patterns would form between the lines and letters and the letters would begin to double or even triple.
I began to look more into what it could be and if theres any easy way of solving it and i found out about visual snow, i went down a rabbit hole almost of researching on the symptoms, the causes, the type of visual snow it can be and any way of getting it fixed.
I have glasses for reading upclose, although my eyesight has improved but i see snow everywhere. I have migraines that last weeks, ive been prescribed propanolol for them but they stopped working after about a week, during the summer if i look at the sky i start to see this inward moving pattern and floaters in the air, sometimes if i stretch too fast i see these almost firework looking things but theyre just in white and black? Im incredibly sensitive to light, i see nothing in the dark even when others can, i have after motion, i recently woke up and had temporary tinnitus and i have extremely horrible after image.
Whatever this could be has impacted me to the point i have stuff printed out in a3 paper rather than a4 because i physically cannot read it and even with the a3 i struggle because of the patterns. I have told my optician these symptoms the first time i got given glasses and she just suspected it was dyslexia, i got tested for dyslexia and i didnt have it. I went to my GP, i told her how much it had impacted my life and how im struggling to do basic tasks like reading and all i got told was "In life you dont always get what you want, its not a perfect world". Which upset me because these symptoms have made me miss school, require extra arrangements for tests etc and nobody is helping me.
Do i try to ask another GP for advice or do i just give up and try ignore it?