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Thanks for the info will look further into ibuprofen. Fiorinal contains caffeine correct? i try to avoid caffiene as it makes me feel 'strange' think it triggers my dp. I don't think these migraines effect my visuals but i do believe it is tied in with my hppd and yes they are constant. ill go to sleep with a headache and wake up with one with the pain returning throughout the day as it pleases sometimes the pain is mild sometimes it is intense and throbbing headache

I've read all about it, I initially thought when my symptoms first started that was what this was Persistent migraine aura without infraction. My neurologist put me on something similar to topamax called epiliem which is also an epilepsy medication around that time is when my ghosting started, no idea if that was the cause for my worsening visuals because i was still drinking alcohol at the time. It did nothing for me at all to make it better. Really i just want to know what i can take for the pain of these migraines without causing further damage?

My hppd triggered with a massive migraine ever since then i get them quite frequently, everyday pretty much its a pain in the front of the head and temples and comes and goes when it pleases sometimes lasts days, I was just wondering what the best thing is to take for these monster headaches? Paracetamol doesn't cut it, paracetamol and codeine work i guess haven't really tried anything else. Also do certain painkillers effect Hppd or worsen symptoms permanently?

add me on bf3 lol "nuroes" but i play on aussie servers so if your halfway across the world it probably wont play to well I was thinking of getting the date i got hppd ( well last time i took drugs) june 05 2011 across my knuckles in numbers, its just a thought but this shit is definitley a big life changer for me so it would have plenty of meaning to me and if my brain ever does decide to heal, it will be a reminder of what i do not want to go back to. I love all music i used to be into a lot of hardstyle and hardcore (industrial mainly) like the outside agency, tymon but lately its not so great i've stepped towards underground hip hop Mad child, Gravity ponds, Tech 9 and hopsin etc. the list could go on forever lol and i absolutley love dnb, B-complex is my favourite to chill to so far

That took about 25-30hours, cost $3,000 lol a lot of money to pay for a massive dose of pain. Yeah its a really good game, im quite good and it keeps my mind occupied. Great stress reliever for me lol

I have ghosting but i also think i have a bit of double vision as well, when i see light reflecting of something there is always to images about a centimetre apart but of the one object. Does anyone here also experience this shit star bursting symptom during the day?

Well i can't say i've stopped playing i still play battlefield 3 and Star wars the old republic whenever i get the chance, my favourite tattoo so far is this one, my back piece. i'm now working on my right arm sleeve Its definitely not the most pleasant hobby to have

Would getting tattoos count as a hobby? lol coz i love tatts, im working to be fully covered, i love the art!!

I didnt really have any hobbies before hppd besides playing pc, other then that all i did was rave and drink was generally a mess lol that being said i was quite happy, i lived to party but i was going no where with myself Now post hppd i have stopped drinking, found a missus, started saving money to travel and am getting healthy so despite all these shitty visual symptoms and strange emotions i feel day to day im a lot happier. I take hppd as both a positive and negative thing would of been great to get clean and wise up before all this because now i see how great life is without substance(drugs)

I find that i can't concentrate on anything anyone says either, i will get lost in my own thoughts and when i think about my hppd( which is nearly all the time, can't help it) I space out and go blank. I've never felt out of my body just a feeling that it is foreign too me except i have noticed when i look in the mirror i feel as though i am the reflection looking back at myself instead of me looking at my reflection if that makes sense, its really annoying and bothersome. Even standing still is a chore it feels like im floating and waving around

How exactly does thit test work to get rid of ghosting? My ghosting is quite bad, if that could somehow correct it that would be great. how often do you do the test? I may be misunderstanding something :S

I'm quite open with my close friends about my Hppd majority seem to understand haven't really said anything about dp/dr to them because i myself did not understand what it was exactly, they seem to pick up on it when im going through an attack because i am a lot more jumpy and nervous. My girlfriend actually described dr without me telling her about it after she smoked weed and said everything around her seemed fake, as if she were in a dream and that she still gets attacks on overcast days and says it still bothers her so i guess i can talk to her when im going through this. I'm glad so far this feeling only lasts an hour or 2 at most, but it seems to happen at the worst possible times like at work or at a party around lots of people. Maybe i'm anxious about that and that is where it stems from

Yeah it feels like everything is far away yet isn't and i forget whats around me and its all new when i see it, its a feeling that is becoming more frequent and its quite hard to act normal around people when it feels like your body is weightless and floating. its such a strange feeling

Ok within the course of my hppd i have been having these attacks, it seems to come for about an.hour or 2 then pass when it happens my body feels wieghtless, my surroundings feel spacey and when i look around everything seems new as if it wasnt there before, my own arms and hands feel foreign to me as if they were someone elses. Is this dp or just my perception being distorted by hppd or common anxiety? Is has never really bothered me but im just curious as to what it is...

I was a pretty bad booze hound before hppd i only recently just stopped about a month and a half ago( I'm 10 months into my hppd), i found that it increased my visual symptoms on a very suttle level until they got to where they are now which is much worse then when this started. The hangovers i found were much worse then what i was used to and the visual symptoms would intensify, it would make me bed ridden for a whole day where as before i could keep bending on for a few days. So for me it did end up biting me in the arse later, be careful man.

I have also experienced this, it has stopped now but it used to happen every time i was on my way into sleep, i would be able to hear what was going on around me but i would be dreaming about nonsense having conversations with people that don't exist or doing things that arent really happening when i would snap out of it, i would think that it actually happened for a moment. It also happened to me when i was 17 at a rave, munted, i fell asleep and i would be having conversations with the same people that were around me and awaken only to find it never happened. Its so strange, it doesnt bother me anymore nor does it happen often if at all. Ive always wondered what exactly was happening it used to freak me out in the first few months of my hppd

Dude, if 1 month was a severe case that would be a fantastic! I've been this way for 10months now which is showing no signs of slowing down and the longest case i've read on here being 30 years if i'm not mistaken, once you have hppd it doesn't just go away. I suggest ( and i'm only new here) that if you really do not want to suffer from hppd you discontinue all hallucinegons. Better safe then sorry, but in the end its up to you.

Thats my main concern, i don't drive yet but want to get my liscence and i can see this being a major issue. If i squint all i see is a tonne of floaters and my ghosting is a lot more intense, i really cant see a way of dealing with it. it sucks! I've been trying to focus on the road when im in other peoples cars or on the bus to work but all i see is massive star bursts which then cause me to go blind if they hit me directly in the eye

Very strange, ghosting also accompanies this symptom but i can handle that, this makes it extremely hard to get around during nice sunny days, even sunglasses do not help like they once did. oh well i guess ill just have to suck it up and hope it gets better over time. thanks guys

I was just wondering how many of you on here expierence this symptom and how you cope with it as it is very hard to ignore? I have been to a neuro opthamoligist and apparently my eyes are perfectly fine, though to me they are getting worse so i gather it must be the HPPD, what would be the main trigger for this? would there be anything i could do to manage this symptom improve? It looks exactly like this and happens in daylight when the sunlight reflects off anything

Thanks for the replies guys, its really good to finally be able to talk to people who are expiriencing the same thing. As far as i know i do not have Dp/Dr but at a few stages since this hppd started i felt as if my body was foriegn to me, but it has not be anything that has bothered me to much, ive grown used to keeping calm when such such anxious feelings arise. I have stopped drugs since the last freak out which was june of last year purely because drugs now scare the shit out of me and you never know what you will be getting without a tester kit. i was an every day drinking and a binge drinker within the last month i can now say i am completely alcohol free it took me a while to come around to this and for my friends to adjust but it is a change for the better none the less. I do not think i will try to rememdy it with more drugs because like you said it was drugs that got me here i was just curious as to whether or not it could be treated, i will look over the links you have provided. thank you for the information, cheers for the warm welcom everyone it is appreciated

Hi my name is Corey, I am 22 years old and from Sydney, Aus. This is my first post so i'll try to be as thorough about my HPPD as i can be, From the age of 16 i was a recreational drug user i would go to raves, parties drink heavily and pop "Ecstasy" every weekend when i was 17 i had my first 2-cb based pill which i fell in love with and began abusing. ( taking every weekend and seeking the drug out specifically) After 2 months of 2-cb use, i had my first "Bad trip" It was an awfully long and bad experience, i came down as normal and decided to not touch that particular drug. I continued to drink and pop ecstasy, always asking people if it had 2-cb in it or "trippy shit" as i would say, needless to say i got another 2-cb pill by accident under the impression it had no 2-cb in it, i had 2 upon leaving a day club and yep i freaked out again. I recovered once more and decided to swear off drugs completley, In my own stupidity i popped irregularlly and used Speed because i thought it was a bit cleaner and i knew what i was gettting, this continued till i was 21 when i was at a club and decided to have half a pill at a friends birthday apparently it was 2-ci or 2-cb based, i did not know that at the time. I took the pill which seemed normal got quite smacky, when i awoke from my munt i was tripping, i told my friend that i don't handle this well and they immediatley took me back to the hotel and watched over me as i went to sleep to avoid the freakout, i woke up scattered and stupidly i decided to drink the whole next day to ease the comedown. This was in June of last year. All was good until about 4 days after the last freakout, i was at work and suddenly noticed i couldnt see out of my left eye and it was gradually getting worse, It was a migraine. My sight returned and i felt quite bad the rest of the day with the pounding headache. After that day is when i started to notice things i never seen before, I will try to list my symptoms that i had when it began. Floaters- Small specs and silvery lines floating through my vision at all times and a lot of them Flashers - Shooting stars that fly across my vision and dissapear Auras - When i would be reading i could notice a slight aura around things that i was reading or around the edges of people After images - Wherever i look, if i stared for too long and looked away i would be able to see the shape of that object for about 5-10 secs usually a purplely colour A feeling of off balance - When it first began i would always feel dizzy, like i was still tripping it was odd and i couldnt pin point why i felt like this Visual Snow - Static on everything, notice it more in the dark or when look at a pattern like carpet, i later found if i would wake up during the night and look at my phone with only my right eye open, i would see intensely thick static like a tv with terrible reception. Anxiety - This was awful in the first few months, it has gotten slighty better over time. I would throw up every morning, have panic attacks at work ( intense feeling of fear) Warping and breathing - If i stare and focus on anything for too long not only do i get the after images, Stuff starts to appear to breathe and dissapear from my peripheral vision, i have to blink and re focus my vision to get it back to "Normal" Ghosting - When reading i can see and identical copy of the letter above sometimes it gets so bad like as if i were looking at 3d screen but without the glasses, usually at its worst in the morning or when i am squinting, This doesn't just appear on writing it has gotten worse in the last few months and there are now ghosted copies of everything, people cars etc. Blinking usually resets my vision to a more bearable level. Reflections - I am really bugged out by my own reflection, i also constantly see double in the mirror when up close. Star bursting - This is a symptom that has increased within the last few months, at night it is car headlights and streetlights, i will see a star type formation on the light with rays shooting off in different directions, in daylight it is the worst, sunlight reflecting off cars are like camera flashes. I notice this from very far distances. Trails - If im looking at something and the background behind it is bright say white, if something moves across it i see a shape move across with it like fog. Also one other strange thing is when i look at the bright blue sky i see all this tiny silver dots flying around in my vision, not sure what this would be called but i never used to see it until this hppd started. Since it began i have sort medical advice by seeing a neurologist who sent me to have an MRI and Blood work done, both came back negative to anything physically serious, i was then reffered to a neuro opthamoligist which said my eyes are perfectly fine, that was this week i have ceased going to these doctors as it is clear they have no idea what they are dealing with or how to help other then to tell me hopefully time will heal it. Basically what i hope to achieve with this post is get some advice such as How do most people cope with it a little better? Is there anything known that i could take to alleviate some of these visual symptoms? Do you find it gets worse or better over time? Any advice at all. I'd like to say thanks to anyone who takes the time to read this and give me their input. I apologise if my post is not clear or thorough enough as its my first time posting. thank you