r.trudeau

Yea, I'm just gunna stop smoking for now...I enjoy being sane, very much lol

Good luck! Remember, start off slow and slowly ease your dosage up. keep us posted... I would love to see someone asides from me benefiting from keppra.

If it wasn't for this site I wouldn't have known about keppra....I would probably be addicted to heroin or dead right now. Thanks doc

Yeah but you are overdoing it. I am guessing you are on the non-extended right?

I wish sometimes i could take 3 or 4 of my ADD med, but that is the WRONG thing to do.

Wellbutrin can cause seizures in thin young women in large doses [...And remember that Wellbutrin is chemically similar to "Bath Salts"]

Get yourself on 150mg Wellbutrin [extended] and call it a day.

My goal here is really to help people out and if someone got messed up because i didn't help them, it would really make me feel terrible.

I don't know that much myself, but i know a lot of people that do and i can ask them and get answers.

I feel you are on way too much and perhaps the Keppra is what is keeping you from spiraling into a seizure-episode [..on a off-chance].

I would feel much better if you were on the 150mg W.B. extended.

Yea, I am taking XL now.

fuck, no wonder my hands were really shaky this morning until I took the keppra. I am going to go back down to 150mg tomorrow and I'll give my doc a ring.

Thanks for the info mg! Heck, you could've saved my life, I was going to take another 400mg xl tomorrow morning without the 1000mg of keppra because I am out...planning on getting it refilled tomorrow afternoon.

When i was taking regular non-extended Wellbutrin [for a week]: 75mg was too much for me. [it really helps visuals but gives you anxiousness/dp/dr/tunnel vision-type stuff] I even thought half-a-75mg was too much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7EIY9GeGGg&feature=plcp

Omg, my dose it way too high! I need to show this to my pdoc right away, she obviously doesn't know what she is doing.

I'm jealous, weed helping with anxiety and not having to take benzo's.

I smoke regular stuff about twice a day and it relaxes me for a bit. Btw taking klono is why I'm able to tolerate it for the most part.

Ps your the hottest hppder I've seen lol, I'm married just sayin

awe, thanks I am flattered, but guys I'm lezbo, sorry. I've been with my gf for a while, our one year is coming up!

I forgot that you were on it! And yea man, I've been on and off wellbutrin twice, and I have taken the SR and XL, too. Two months after the HPPD onset I had a major freakout and got sent to the looney bin....THANKGOD they put me on wellbutrin sr, I took it twice a day for roughly 6 months...then I made the mistake of taking myself off of it because I felt a whole lot better about everything, and then life slowly came crashing down on me again until I found keppra.

BTW, I think the synergy of the combination of wb and keppra is absolutely amazing.

And I agree about the dosage being too high, I took another 400mg this morning and is hasn't impacted my hppd, but I kind of feel like I am on really clean speed, no joke. It feels like addy, without the negative side effects. Or..the WB has cleared up my brain fog causing me to think a lot more clearer. Maybe this is what "normal" feels like.

I usually smoke pure CBD oil (instead of popping a benzo) which helps with anxiety, and the strains that I smoke have very little thc in them...the cannatonic that I have is only 1% THC to 30% CBD, the THC is practically not even there!!!! Btw, I'm not trying to advocate smoking cannabis at all while you have this disorder.

So, I talked to my pdoc, whom also specializes in natural medicine about my "incident" today, and she said that she didn't think the CBD cannabis caused the "hppd relapse episode."

Let me back track a bit; I started talking wellbutrin (3 weeks ago) for ADHD in hopes that it would help get rid of the SA, and it did because it got rid of the brain fog that was causing me to speak all backwards and ect, ect, ect...But back to the point, the day before my incident I had increased the dosage of wellburtin from 300mg to 400mg. The pdoc thinks that's why my hppd came back, because my brain went through a drastic change too quickly.

I liked the stuff called "the blue lugoo," but the person who grew it got busted by the DEA and I haven't seen it since...it was the best pot I have ever smoked lol.

I don't think any hppders should smoke pot though. To make a long story short, my vs and dp came back to slap me in the face this morning, it was like reliving the onset of hppd. Luckily, everything has turned back to normal, 14 hours later....Scary shit.

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Those dextox drinks are way too expensive for me! What is goldenseal?? Never heard of it before. I showed the marijuana doc my keppra prescription and said I had a strange form of epilepsy...and bang, she gave me a card that's good for a year and charged me 150 bucks.

She lives in a legal state, I dont think its as big a deal as it is for us. Id smoke a few times a week if it was legal and I could get a CBD strain, honestly.

Yep, I can walk three blocks away from my house to a dispensary. They're open 7 day a week 11am-10pm. It's pretty great

I do get drug tested at work, at the end of every month actually. My manager always lets us know a couple days in advance so we have time to "prepare." I'm not a very big person lol 5'2 & 105lbs so it's pretty easy for me to pass a UA...if I drink cranberry extract and a gallon of water before the test.

And yea, I smoke cigarettes too, started when I was about 15. You know, I don't feel like I have a lot of room to talk when it comes to my opinion if recreational drug use outweighs the risks....but all there is to say is that it depends on what drugs you're referring to, and the personality type of the person who is ingesting said drug. There are just too many random variables to take into consideration.

Honestly, I can't give you an answer. If it were up to me I would smoke until the day I die, but I am almost positive I'll have to stop after I graduate and begin my career.

haha exactly, I was pretty much a poly drug user from the get go. And no, I don't feel like pot does any damage in terms of developing properly. They're plenty of people out there who I know personally who started smoking at 13-14. They were honor students all throughout high school (they're all excelling in uni now), myself included. On the other hand, some peoples brains are more fragile than others, and those people may be more sensitive to cannabis causing them to experience emotional problems while under the influence or coming down...Those people most likely have family members with a mental illness or had emotional issues before they started using cannabis though. So I guess it's a case by case deal, everyone is wired differently.

Well, I started smoking when I was 14, and I was a pretty much daily user until I got hppd at 17. I was probably smoking about .5-2 grams a day back then, and now I smoke a little over a gram a week.

Yes, I definitely get "stoned" but I try to avoid getting really "high" because I have a tendency of just falling asleep after a certain point. Not quite sure why that happens, but I'm not too concerned because I was that way before hppd. But anyways, if you smoke a lot (about a gram or so) you'll get a pretty clear headed high.

We give that medication to people with alzheimer's or dementia at work!

If just feels like a normal high, you know what I'm talking about...happy, focused, open minded ect ect ect. There really isn't any benefit of smoking besides the fact that it is just enjoyable, and it has no impact on my hppd, so why not? And I've never read anywhere that cannabis and keppra have any adverse reaction when mixed.

I smoke cannatonic or raskals og, They're both really high in CBD and super low in THC. The guy at the co op was telling me that if the CBD is higher than the THC the THC gets overridden.

With hydroxyzine i experienced less visual snow.

Me too, and it also helped with minor anxiety.

1000mgs in the am and 500mg in the evening

Thank you! I have my fingers crossed for you as well!

That's an antihistamine, right? Definitely seems like a safer option. Although I'll try pretty much anything at this point.

Yep, it is. It also helps a lot with anxiety too at lower doses.

Honestly, I am not too sure yet. During the year and 1/2 mark my pdoc wants to start tapering me off it slowly. If the hppd starts to come back during the taper I will continue taking it for a longer duration of time...then try tapering off it once again, and if it returns I'll most likely be on it for life.