Audible noise when moving my eyes

Yes! Effexor was 1 of the meds that I stop taking in July and I believe this was the cause of the light saber noise in the eyeball. the good news is that it did go away eventually - Now on to more symptoms!

Whoever referred to the sound as sandpaper or tearing a piece of cloth. Thank you. The thing that bothered me the most was that I couldn't even tell what it sounded like. Does it go away?

Yes, but it will be about a month. Antihistamines help but stay well hydrated.

I have had this happening for 2 years now, mine sounds like a swishing sound when i move my eyes from side to side and it does it even if i close my eyes, but it's ok moving them up or down and driving me mad, it occurs without any particular reason sometimes it can last 3 days or more, then other days it's not there ? and i cannot figure out if the noise is coming from the eyes, my head or ears... it's totally annoying and frustrating but never painful, mentioned it to the doctor before but they don't seem to be interested... please i need help

Hi. I have been reading your comments because I am also experiencing these symptoms. Recently I heard the clicking while moving my eyes right to left. I concluded that my eyes were dry so I rinsed them, prayed, and indeed it did go away. What has now shown up is a visual arc of light that seems circular in shape and motion. It is very bight and golden and seems to appear more when I turn my eyes to the left. There is no pain, but I do have sinus pressure. it came on while dusting the house so I am wondering if it is allergy related. So far it has persisted for two days. Closing my eyes for brief moments seems to help, and overnight the symptoms are reduced. Right now I am using drops for dry eyes because I also have fluid coming out of the corner ducts. If anything changes I will write again. Thank you for what you have contributed here.

I am here because I just started having the same thing! WOW glad I'm not crazy...   Mine started during my 'step down' period of tapering off paxil... I'm also experiencing  some vertig and dizziness during my tapering off...and for the record... I will NEVER get on paxil again!!!

Is Effexor like Paxil? Because mine started while tapering off Paxil..

This has happened to me off and on all my life. I equate it with the sound of a Rainbird sprinkler, chuh, chuh, chuh. Between one and three times, depending on how far I'm moving my eyes. Never more than three times with full eye sweep.  It is good to know other people experience this, because people that I've described this to, think I'm nuts!  I've been having this constantly in the last two weeks, in conjunction with an enlarged thyroid, so I'm suspecting Graves Disease may explain both symptoms. The optical blood vessels being constricted.  We'll see what the tests show, but it would sure explain a lot.  In the meantime, the sound of sprinklers isn't all bad, right? 

Interesting that so many people have this. My story is just a bit different. I had a sudden and permanent hearing loss in my left ear with permanent though mild tinnitus in that ear, many years ago, and about six or eight weeks later I started getting a frequent odd kind of spontaneous "whump" sensation in my head accompanied by a split-second feeling I was going to pass out. At the very same time, the tinnitus (in my left ear only) would spike very noticeably. (I wasn't ever on any anti-depressants or any other meds until years later.) This whump-passing-out-tinnitus-spike thing would happen often when I was sleepy or when I heard a sudden noise. Or when I would turn off running water, change the radio station, or something like that. Eventually the "whumps" got a little softer-feeling, but the ear-noise spike remained the same. And often I'd have multiple "whumps" in quick succession, up to four at a time when sleepy. Over months or years, the "whump" feeling in my head faded nearly away, but I finally noticed that the spike of tinnitus in my left (hearing-loss) ear occurred when I'd move my eyes sideways or upwards, though more often sideways. I now (14 years later) get the eye-movement-induced spike rarely, only when my sleep pattern is off (sleep-deprived or else having slept a long time after a bout of mild sleep deprivation. I read that people who'd had surgery to remove a benign inner-ear tumor could develop this tinnitus with eye movement--in the study it was called "gaze-evoked tinnitus." Some of you might want to google that term. Of course this does NOT mean anyone has  that kind of tumor. They are very rare and you would have something else like hearing loss. No doctor ever gave me an explanation for this phenomenon. Must be some kind of slight brainstem anomaly, the visual system overriding the auditory or something like that. Interesting that so many people have found it happens when withdrawing from anti-depressants. But that's not the only cause. However, as I said, mine may be different because it's only in ONE ear, my bad one. A tinnitus researcher wanted to do a functional MRI study on me, but I told him I cannot always make this happen--it's not consistent, and the "spike" is only less than a second long, probably too short for an MRI to catch, I guess, so that never happened.

Your description of chuh, chuh is exactly the sound I hear in my frontal lobe behind my eyes. It used to only happen when I moved my eyes back and forth but now it happens without even moving my eyes. I wondered if you found out anything from tests you were having. I'm seeing a Neurologist on Monday because I've been experiencing this for about 6 years and recently it has started happening several times a day almost every day. I am on Prozac but never weened off of it as several writers have suggested (anti-depressants) as a culprit for this annoying noise. Thanks for any info. I'll report back what my neurologist says...if it's worth noting. I really don't expect answers but I feel like this is my one shot to try to find out something.

I recently weaned off of Lexapro, taking my last quarter-pill dose about three weeks ago. Now, I still am hearing the swishing noises that everyone describes.  My question is to anyone who has successfully weaned off an antidepressant and had the noises stop altogether.  How long did it take???

I also have this problem, Is there any solution for this? any doctors suggestions to at least know what is happening?

Do you take SSRis, or were you taking them and then stopped? This is a symptom of SSRI withdrawal.

Bird chirping heard when moving eyes left or right but not up or down has been going on for years with me.

I have read that this can be a phenomenon associated with withdrawal from SSRI type antidepressants. It seems to be something temporary.