diff --git a/code/datums/diseases/advance/symptoms/hallucigen.dm b/code/datums/diseases/advance/symptoms/hallucigen.dm
index acc8b793ea8..663c8020f6a 100644
--- a/code/datums/diseases/advance/symptoms/hallucigen.dm
+++ b/code/datums/diseases/advance/symptoms/hallucigen.dm
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Bonus
 		return
 	var/mob/living/carbon/M = A.affected_mob
 	var/list/healthy_messages = list("Your lungs feel great.", "You realize you haven't been breathing.", "You don't feel the need to breathe.",\
-					"Your eyes feel great.", "You are now blinking manually.", "You don't feel the need to blink.")
+					"Your eyes feel great.", "Your ears feel great.", "You don't feel the need to blink.")
 	switch(A.stage)
 		if(1, 2)
 			if(prob(base_message_chance))
diff --git a/code/datums/diseases/advance/symptoms/sensory.dm b/code/datums/diseases/advance/symptoms/sensory.dm
index 4e01756f5fc..e7c6c78bf9f 100644
--- a/code/datums/diseases/advance/symptoms/sensory.dm
+++ b/code/datums/diseases/advance/symptoms/sensory.dm
@@ -80,30 +80,25 @@
 	if(!..())
 		return
 	var/mob/living/M = A.affected_mob
-	var/obj/item/organ/eyes/eyes = M.getorganslot(ORGAN_SLOT_EYES)
-	if (!eyes)
-		return
 	switch(A.stage)
 		if(4, 5)
-			M.restoreEars()
-
+			M.restoreEars() //this is mostly just copy+pasted from oculine and inacusiate
+			M.adjust_blindness(-2)
+			M.adjust_blurriness(-2)
+			var/obj/item/organ/eyes/eyes = M.getorganslot(ORGAN_SLOT_EYES)
+			if(!eyes)
+				return
+			eyes.applyOrganDamage(-2)
 			if(HAS_TRAIT_FROM(M, TRAIT_BLIND, EYE_DAMAGE))
 				if(prob(20))
-					to_chat(M, "<span class='notice'>Your vision slowly returns...</span>")
+					to_chat(M, "<span class='warning'>Your vision slowly returns...</span>")
 					M.cure_blind(EYE_DAMAGE)
 					M.cure_nearsighted(EYE_DAMAGE)
 					M.blur_eyes(35)
-
-				else if(HAS_TRAIT_FROM(M, TRAIT_NEARSIGHT, EYE_DAMAGE))
-					to_chat(M, "<span class='notice'>You can finally focus your eyes on distant objects.</span>")
-					M.cure_nearsighted(EYE_DAMAGE)
-					M.blur_eyes(10)
-
-				else if(M.eye_blind || M.eye_blurry)
-					M.set_blindness(0)
-					M.set_blurriness(0)
-				else if(eyes.damage > 0)
-					eyes.applyOrganDamage(-1)
+			else if(HAS_TRAIT_FROM(M, TRAIT_NEARSIGHT, EYE_DAMAGE))
+				to_chat(M, "<span class='warning'>The blackness in your peripheral vision fades.</span>")
+				M.cure_nearsighted(EYE_DAMAGE)
+				M.blur_eyes(10)
 		else
 			if(prob(base_message_chance))
-				to_chat(M, "<span class='notice'>[pick("Your eyes feel great.","You feel like your eyes can focus more clearly.", "You don't feel the need to blink.","Your ears feel great.","Your healing feels more acute.")]</span>")
+				to_chat(M, "<span class='notice'>[pick("Your eyes feel great.","You feel like your eyes can focus more clearly.", "You don't feel the need to blink.","Your ears feel great.","Your hearing feels more acute.")]</span>")
diff --git a/code/modules/reagents/chemistry/reagents/medicine_reagents.dm b/code/modules/reagents/chemistry/reagents/medicine_reagents.dm
index 16e45f22f92..af0ba84621d 100644
--- a/code/modules/reagents/chemistry/reagents/medicine_reagents.dm
+++ b/code/modules/reagents/chemistry/reagents/medicine_reagents.dm
@@ -639,6 +639,8 @@
 
 /datum/reagent/medicine/oculine/on_mob_life(mob/living/carbon/M)
 	var/obj/item/organ/eyes/eyes = M.getorganslot(ORGAN_SLOT_EYES)
+	M.adjust_blindness(-2)
+	M.adjust_blurriness(-2)
 	if (!eyes)
 		return
 	eyes.applyOrganDamage(-2)
@@ -648,19 +650,15 @@
 			M.cure_blind(EYE_DAMAGE)
 			M.cure_nearsighted(EYE_DAMAGE)
 			M.blur_eyes(35)
-
 	else if(HAS_TRAIT_FROM(M, TRAIT_NEARSIGHT, EYE_DAMAGE))
 		to_chat(M, "<span class='warning'>The blackness in your peripheral vision fades.</span>")
 		M.cure_nearsighted(EYE_DAMAGE)
 		M.blur_eyes(10)
-	else if(M.eye_blind || M.eye_blurry)
-		M.set_blindness(0)
-		M.set_blurriness(0)
 	..()
 
 /datum/reagent/medicine/inacusiate
 	name = "Inacusiate"
-	description = "Instantly restores all hearing to the patient, but does not cure deafness."
+	description = "Instantly restores all hearing to the patient, but does not work on patients without ears, cure genetic deafness, or cure chronic deafness." //by "chronic" deafness, we mean people with the "deaf" quirk
 	color = "#606060" // ditto
 
 /datum/reagent/medicine/inacusiate/on_mob_life(mob/living/carbon/M)