Beginning of VS

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On August 21st 2017 I was viewing the Solar Eclipse through my Welding Helmet. As clouds went in front of the Sun it would kick my helmet off and flashed my eyes a few times. (Solar Retinopathy) I ended up with Photoreceptor Burn Out in my Left Eye. A very small spot that I do not notice when both eyes are open.
I have been to 2 Family Doctors, 3 Optometrist, & 1 Opthalmologist & a NeuroOpthalmologist over the last year. With no answers besides my eyes are Healthy in every way besides the small Photoreceptor Burnout..
I had a few symptoms from day 1 including- Floaters, Light Sensitivity, Dry Eyes, Dim Central Vision, Severe Headaches, Pain Around My Eyes, Dim Night Vision, Slight "Starburst", "Lava Lamp Effect" (At night trying to sleep and my Eyes produce their own light)..
I have always had bad anxiety but had not taken any sort of medicine for it. With that being said, I have been a train wreck this whole time worrying if things will get worse or if I will go blind.
3 Months in I start to develop some new symptoms.
Nausea, Flashes (In my Central Vision), More Severe "Starburst", "Desert Cracks" (Alternating Closing Right/Left Eye Quickly), Double Vision (Only On Tv/Computer Screens), Blue Entoptic Phenomenon, Head Pressure, Alternate Colors, (Only in my peripheral vision as a After Image- Blue turns Yellow and Purple turns Green), Pure White Spot (Comes & Goes from time to time in either eye), Severe After Images, and last but not least Static.. Along with Tinnitus (Randomly Started at 2 in the morning and woke me up. Hasn't went away since)
The Static I see is more like the Static you would see in a Low Light Video on your Cell Phone. Visible more in the dark than in the light.
After seeing all of these different people looking for answers and getting none, I did have 1 Optometrist suggest I try Syntonic Light Therapy (Green Filter) Being hopeless and desperate for relif I tried the thearpy for 1 session and it made everything 100x worse. I didn't try that again needless to say.
I'm not sure if what I have is Visual Snow exactly but I have a lot of the same Symptoms many of you have.. So I feel as if I can relate and truly feel for each and every one of you.. This has been a battle.. The hardest thing I've been through in my life (24). I'm fighting every day to try and ignore or forget that it's happening but obviously when you see things constantly it's hard to do.. Impossible in my opinion.. I'm not sure if this was anxiety induced by me freaking out, from the Eclipse even though my eyes are 100% healthy (20/20 Vision This Whole Time), or from something else..
If you read all of this then thank you for spend your time reading my story and experience through this whole process. If some or all of these things are the same for you then I truly feel for you.. Hang in there.. Hopefully better days are ahead..