Sometimes when I move my eyes from side to side...I hear a swish sound. I told my doc and she seemed to know what it was.....but didn't tell me anything.
Anyone else had this?

You hear your eyes move? Eeeeeewwwwwww!!

Don't think i've had that pleasure...nope..

I have since found out that its a disconnect somewhere in the brainstem that gets confused as to whether something is visual or auditory.
I do have problems there.

Also, it can be caused from withdrawl from certain anti-depressants. Withdrawl can screw up the signals in the same way.

Its really not that creepy...just weird. It doesn't go on all day long, just for a little while I will hear this light swishing sound that goes along with my eye movement. It happened most during the death of my mom so I think the stress triggered it.

I have the same swishing sound that I hear when I move my eyes. It is also during times when I have horrible dizzy spells that can last for days or even weeks. It's not typical dizziness, though. It's more like a shifting of rooms and objects when I turn my head. One doc said it could be severe anxiety that has been going on for a while now without me being aware that I was not reacting normally to stress. I'm still looking for a sure diagnosis. It scares me because I worry about the worst possible scenarios, of course.

I can feel the colour purple in my head and taste one of my perfumes but I can't hear my eyes. No. definitely not.

Ask your doctor about Minor's syndrome (or Superior canal dehiscence syndrome). This can cause you to be able to hear things inside your body (people have reported being able to hear their eyes) and can also cause sounds to cause the dizziness and tilting of the room that you describe. Basically the bone that separates the hearing center and the balance center in the ear is not there. Hope this helps!

Are you seeing another doctor, to get this sure diagnosis about anxiety? I am mentioning this symptom to my doctor, next month. All physical ailments have been ruled out in a routine physical. My test results and last appointment seem to have crossed paths. And I had another dizzy spell, earlier today.

I too have had this for a very long time when I was in cold turkey withdrawal from effexor. Interesting post I found on this subject here you may want to give it a read.

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After I originally read this story, I couldn’t stop thinking about how this proves that our reality is nothing but electrical inputs, and how we trust our brains to interpret them correctly. It is our brain that will decide what is essential and what is not. But, what if our brain does not interpret them in the way that represents what is really “out there”. What does that do to our sense of “reality”. So, is the world around you really like what you think it is, or is your brain wrong? I guess we will never know. But what can be learned from the above incredible story, is what you think you perceive may not be “really” reality

After reading it I thought finally some information to vindicate what people withdrawing from antidepressants actually experience. I did not get any help when I talked to my doctor about this issue.
I have read many post from people withdrawing from serotonin enhancing drugs that speak of this. One other thing I think may be related is an extreme sensitivity to noise of any kind .... can't any noise for example in the summer on the hottest days having to drive with the car windows up so I do not have to hear the sound of tires from the other cars ya no air conditioning either Both these issues seem to be related to serotonin yet these are the first 2 references I have seen from a scientific person that says it makes some sense. It has since passed for me but it is still good to know. Thanks for your post. I am now going to have to look up these two brain areas. I wonder what else I can learn. I still have memory problems and other symptoms that come and go. Before I quit taking effexor I was being investigated for ms turns out I did not have it but did have something in the white matter of my brain.

I recently learned the same thing that you are saying about the disconnect in the brain stem from an amazing ent. I however have not heard any treatment for this issue.

In researching the topic of hearing your eyes move there is also a disorder of a hole in the bones near the inner ear that can cause something very similar. SCDS (Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome) There is a medical treatment for that.

You would need further medical diagnostics to determine if that is the cause. It is frustrating to not know what causes the dizziness and the sound and the shifting in the room.

I have the same issues with dizziness and hearing my eyes move. Do you also have sleeping disorders? I have always had insomnia and other sleep issues. I was recently diagnosed with narcolepsy. It is a disorder of the sleep cycle and the order in which it occurs . It can be a huge contributing factor although not the only one in my case .

Sorry about being so rambly in this message. Hope I offered a couple other avenues to find answers.

I just wanted to share in case you hadn't heard of SCDS, or if you do have sleep issues . Narcolepsy is known for dizziness as well as other complications that seem more logically related to not sleeping well.

Good luck! I would like to hear if you find help.

QUOTE=karilann;542238]I have since found out that its a disconnect somewhere in the brainstem that gets confused as to whether something is visual or auditory.
I do have problems there.

Also, it can be caused from withdrawl from certain anti-depressants. Withdrawl can screw up the signals in the same way.

Its really not that creepy...just weird. It doesn't go on all day long, just for a little while I will hear this light swishing sound that goes along with my eye movement. It happened most during the death of my mom so I think the stress triggered it.[/QUOTE]

hello every one
i was searching by google about my problem which is seem to be like karilann's problem and here i am..

actually my probelm "hear my eyes movement" start 3 day ago , i was think it is just bcuz i am tired that day , i try to sleep that day but when woke up there is no thing change .
i try to deal with it by paracetamol but no thing change .
today is the fourth day and it is still without any improvement.
i stop anti-depressants (cipralex) "SSRI'' before couple of weeks which i think is the most suspected in this problem , bcuz karilann say that could be withdrawl of anti-depressants