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Feeling worried and tense at the heart. It relieves itself during food coma or an hour or two before bed but for some reason it comes back. I think it has to do with my pulse going up and causing it rather than anxiety-->pulse up. No doubt that my blood circulation has been a mess since the beginning. My brain blood circulation is 20-40% faster than normal as i been told by the hospital. Probably the reason for hppd head pressure. Its Day 3 now of anxiety. Day 10 of Cipro. hoping that when im done with cipro, itll return to baseline. Eventhough ive only had visual symptoms for 1-2month, i was pretty much at peace with it mentally. I may have been sleeping alot due to the lack of energy and such but never did I feel anxiety. If it is from cipro, i hope it will be gone when im done cipro. thinking of maybe cutting it early and risk chronic prostaitis... just venting i guess. Going for some "healing massage" later. This guy is a guru at health but he probably has no idea what hppd is lol. i wonder how he'll do.

Anything positive I can extract some hope off of?

Im still new to researching hppd (1-2month) so im quite uninformed in the chemicals/nuerons and whatever. Thinking back on it now, My visual started (ghosting) and got worse when I started to take clotiazepam along with some other general drug that I will find out later today or tomorrow. I took them about 10-20 times but i stopped when the withdrawal effects like tremors were fucking me up. I now research every medicine prescribed to me, i shouldnt have taken them in the first place imo. Clotiazepam is a "is athienodiazepine drug which is a benzodiazepine analog. The clotiazepam molecule differs from most other benzodiazepines in that the benzene ring has been replaced by a thiophene ring." Clotiazepam binds to the benzodiazepine site of the GABAAreceptor where it acts as a full agonist; this action results in an enhanced GABA inhibitory effect at the GABAAreceptor which results in the pharmacological effects of clotiazepam With that said, reading about how Clozapine helped with symptoms of others, and it has to do with GABA-b, is there any conclusions that can be drawn from his? Sorry I am not much help. Also I recently started taking ciprofloxacin + mosapride + doxazosin for a prostate infection. And About a week into it, i had a minor anxiety attack, tremor, night sweat for 1 day and some PTS i suppose. just doing some basic research mosapride - a 5ht4 agonist and following links to 5ht4 receptor, mosapride can also be active as 5ht3 antagonist. doxazosin - quinazoline compound sold by Pfizer under the brand names Cardura and Carduran, is an α1-selective alpha blocker used to treat high blood pressure and urinary retention associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia Doxazosin and similar medications like prazosin have been found to help reduce the intensity of and/or stopposttraumatic stress disorder night terrors and nightmares. The full reasoning of this effect is not understood. though i didnt have any of the symptoms before PSTD, nightmares. its also somewhat well known that the antibiotic ciprofloxacin can be very toxic and cause someone to be floxied which seems a lot like HPPD but worse. But like HPPD, it is still 'hidden' in the medical field. "The Committee on the Safety of Medicines and the FDA warn that central nervous system (CNS) adverse effects, including seizure risk, may be increased when NSAIDs are combined with quinolones.[34][71] The interaction between quinolones and NSAIDs is important, because it has the potential for considerable CNS toxicity. The mechanism for this interaction is believed to be due to a synergistic increased antagonism of GABA neurotransmission" Someone has replied to me that it has been known to worsen hppd for some, and it also has something related to do with GABA. I dont know what role this plays or if it is significant at all. Any thoughts/comments are greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I was taking ciprofloxacin for my prostate infection (im on my 10th ish day) but today i felt some great anxiety (i normally dont have anxiety from hppd) and I experienced visual snow? like symptom. kind of like electrical noise swimming . maybe 20 of them or so while looking at the sun. I had no idea antibiotics and such could create new symptoms which kind of makes sense now... So i googled "cipro hppd worse" lo and be hold theres quite a few posts about cipro being toxic and how it caused flare ups in hppd-ers. What would happen to my infection if i stop taking cipro. Will my infection grow stronger and damage me more? Can the body naturally fight off a prostate infection? What should i tell my urologist. Im in an asian country right now and 99.9% he wont know about HPPD let alone LSD. Sigh, reading about psychosis induced HPPD is really fuking me up now along with teh anxiety..

Yea, i expected optos cant really do anything when its HPPD. The eyes being able to focus enough to notice more floaters kind of makes sense to me since LSD itself manipulates pupil dilation/eye muscle focus. For me I can also 'feel' my right eye getting weaker and I often find myself closing only my right eye when I have been reading for a while. (probably due to the ghosting and my brain is shutting down my non-dominant eye) The symptoms getting worse is what scares me. :\ There is a new symptom I have been noticing more, Does anyone else have this one?: You know how like when you have a blood rush(ive also noticed blood rush has been occuring more) after suddenly standing up, and your surrounding becomes darkened? Its like that but at 1% of the intensity. Kind of like having a 1% black afterimage overlay on everything. Im getting worried that it will get worse and eventually blind me :( Let me know, and thanks for all the replies.

Questios: For those with hppd visual symptoms, can the optometrist do anything for it? (if it turns out to be hppd but) If you dont mention anything about hppd, what would they try to do? (in a drug illegal strict country) Has visual symptoms developed/worsen with time and soberness? Anyone experience other body symptoms that are not visual? Below is my 'story'. Im not sure if I have hppd or some other illness but my visual symptoms are something that i've only experienced while past trips. Ive been all-drug sober for 2month now. ( I was a daily pot smoker) Ever since(4month ago) I tried LSD/MDMA I had The ability manipulate my eye focus so I can make letters move slightly and Different pupil dialation size. (Anisocoria)[disappeared a month ago] But along with various other symptoms and sickness over the past two month which include: general weakness knee weakness? joint paint loss of appetite paresthesia poking/pricking type sudden onset of cherry angiomas and few moles various pains for a couple seconds all over body (like a sore neck pain) tinnitus quality of hair (i think) I did a few checkups, all at my request which included, blood, urine, endoscopy, and an mri. I had minor erosive gastritis. I did have some sort of brain lesion but it wasnt anything alarming/problematic. It was my decision to go to a bigger hospital and see a neurologist that examined blood circulation in the brain which turned out to be 20-40% higher. (was just a few days ago) Basically the doctor said i have a sensitive brain right now and he suspects it could be the start of chronic migraine (which i doubt because i havent had any intense/throbbing migraines; only a seldom pressure like existence in brain). He told me to stay off caffeine. Most of the non visual symptoms have died down, my consistent 140 blood pressure over the last month has also returned to 120ish. But last week I got prostate infection which I am now taking antibiotics for. The visual symptoms that remain and I had developed last 3-4 weeks ago, include: Ghosting in both eyes, only on bright lights LEDs, streelights, and such. (first time i noticed it was after attending Ultra Music Festival. [bright lights, loud noise which i read may affect hppd] I also never had this effect even on trips. ) Starbursting. A blurry Halo on bright lights like lamp posts. A significant increase in noticeable floaters Some sort of overall overlay in my vision. Its not visual snow but like this http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Closed-eye-visualization.gif Its not moving and its very mild/really hard to notice at all so I dont know if im just imagining it or not but i do feel some strain on my eyes. Anyways I suspect even if I go to an opto, he will find nothing wrong with my eyes. I think lsd/mdma fucked up my brain resulting in a lowered immune system as well and the sickness is heightening my visual symptoms like how tiredness makes visual symptoms worse. I honestly think its either brain is fucked due to mdma +lsd or that i have some disease/infection/autoimmune disorder thats hard to diagnose. I can visit different types of doctors but unless I go to a diagnostic hospital, none of them will really collaborate and only think in terms of their field.

Im quite sick right now and one of my new symptom is ghosting. I know i had anisocoria(different size pupil dilation) fluid ceilings and moving letters, which were noticeable when I let it/concentrate to make it happen. (this is all sober, drug free for 1.5month now, always had the moving letter and ceiling since last lsd trip but ghosting to do this degree is new. [had really really minor tracer]) I also found headlights to be more bright and caramelized, but now i have some very noticeable ghosting and light leaking effect. (picture not mine) The ghosting is like the 2d moon but all around and the glare lines are as strong as the 3rd moon. It happens on bright things and its mostly noticeble on streetlights,leds,headlight,and bright screen. Im worried because this might be a symptom of multiple sclerosis but i realized that when I do pinpoint or squinting, i can make it better. My understanding is that vision problems related to MS are caused by nerve/messages. Would pinpoint/squinting make a difference in vision in the case of MS relation? Also, I just used some anti-inflammatory eye drops, it seemed a little better but not much. I also suspect thyroid disease which is also known to cause eye problems. I'm seeing a neurologist tomorrow but due to circumstances(diff country, knowing doctor) I cant tell him ive used LSD before. So has anyone "developed" a new visual disturbance as time went by(sober)? Also, sometimes i feel that being sick can strengthen the visual effects so i dont know if me being sick is making the HPPD worse or its an unrelated new symptom of sickness... I dont want to mislead the doctor if its just an addition to HPPD but at the same time i cant tell him FUCKKKKKKK i hate my life. Also, i dont think i had any anxiety(had minor attack on led) nor depression(rather lsd brought me out of depression) aftereffects but being physically sick for a month and not being diagnosed is starting to take its mental toll on me. Most doctors think ill just get better since im in my early 20s. Going to a big hospital/doctor tomorrow though.