chrismo

Thanks for the detailed update, sounds pretty positive so far. I'll definitely be following this closely but I'll try and keep annoying questions to a minimum. No pressure matey.

Jesus, man. Visuals! VISUALS!

I've looked at something similar myself, possibly to be used in conjunction with medication. I'll be interested to hear how you get on with this, although I imagine it will take a fair amount of time for any benefits to occur.

I pretty much discontinued after the last post- no changes and it only takes a short amount of time to know if it will be effective. Maybe Donepezil next...

Okay, one week in and still no improvements. Side effects have worsened slightly. I don't think this one is going to work for me. If anyone else is interested in this medication it is discussed in the paper I recently posted and there is a link to the original study that describes its efficacy in treating visual snow.

Ha, no it hasn't killed me. It hasn't really done much of anything yet. I was expecting the side effects to be quite bad but so far all I've experienced is some mild tingling and numbness. No effect on visuals. I've just doubled my dose to 500mg.

Coke significantly exacerbated my symptoms. I would urge you not to try it, not even once. You should know by now that one time is all it takes and that it is really not worth the risk.

With all the talk of pro-cholinergic drugs, has anyone tried, or have any thoughts on, donepezil?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181850/

Describes the similarities and differences between cholinergic and serotonergic hallucinations.

Yeah the vomiting blood is unlikely to be related, I'd definitely get that checked out mate.

Regarding the Prozac.. I can't really remember, might've discussed it in another topic, but why are you on it?

I have yet to read a report of HPPD symptoms being substantially improved with SSRI's.. But there could be some lying around here, idk.

Sounds like your stressed out man.. Maybe see if you can get something for that instead for the time being?

There are a couple, yeah.

Young, C. R. (1997). Sertraline treatment of hallucinogen persisting perception disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 58(2), 85-85. 

Reports the case of a 22-yr-old man who presented with hallucinogen persisting perception disorder and symptoms of mild depression 6 mo after discontinuing the use of LSD. Antidepressant treatment was begun with sertraline, until a target dose of 100 mg was reached. Mild exacerbations of the LSD-like phenomena were noted for 2-4 days after each dosage increase. Within 1 mo of reaching the target dose the perceptual disturbances decreased until they had almost completely remitted, and the depressive symptoms also improved. It is hypothesized that hallucinogen persisting perception disorder is serotonergically mediated, and that sertraline initially exacerbates the perceptual disturbances, but attenuates them after chronic administration. (PsycINFO Database Record © 2008 APA, all rights reserved)

Levity.

Oh, and a merkin is a pubic wig! Get the guy's name right.

Just can't help being a snarky prick even when someone is trying to bring levity to the situation. Must really suck to be you.

I thought it might be levity but I wasn't sure. It's genuinely hard to tell with you. And more insults? Keep this up and I shall complain to the moderators!

Merkin,

If it were just this thread this time I wouldn't care, but Chris went out of his way to troll my first thread on the site because he felt I had some agenda. And I went out of my way to try to be polite but he kept making shit up. Telling me I'm making some kind of assertion. And acting like I owed him something. I'm sorry but why should I not be frustrated?I'm tired of people like Chris in every forum you go to. Some high and mighty attitude that they think is them being noble and protecting the forum by getting the truth out blah blah blah. When it crossed the line from asking questions to making accusations which he has done to other people than me as well. Then I have every reason to get pissed.

That's all..as happy as I was to find this site it's not worth it if I'm going to find the same judgemental bullshit as I do everywhere else. It only takes one turd in the punch bowl to ruin the party.

 

If you're going to make such accusations you should probably post a link to the thread so that people can decide for themselves.

http://hppdonline.com/index.php?/topic/2055-way-off-the-deep-end-with-no-way-back-in-sight/#entry16159

Yeah, if unrelated claims from some nutty broad in a tabloid newspaper don't prove the usefulness of meditation with regards to HPPD I don't know what will.

Merkan, I want to kiss your face.

Haha. You disappear for ages and then come back with a "this might kill you" warning, "but do it anyway". You want me dead, don't you? But yeah, where would we be if people hadn't guinea pigged themselves? I'll take one for the team.

At least this entertaining. Thanks for the distraction. I forgot I had HPPD for the 12 minutes it took to read this.

At least it hasn't been a complete waste of time then.

simmer down guys.

As for meditation and hppd, if it works for some why not.

Even if its just a placebo, if it can be therapeutic for some, its definitely helpful since lots of people link hppd with anxiety. 

Also here are some research proofs on controlled breathing/meditation.

 

search words were: meditation cerebral cortex, deep breathing brain function, meditation and brain, etc. 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_activity_and_meditation

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0062817

http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~lazar/Articles/Lazar_Meditation_Plasticity_05.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18820654?dopt=Abstract

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/evidence-builds-that-meditation-230237.aspx

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361002/

 

just a couple abstracts and my random theories

 

 

 

 

Helps with DP/DR perhaps? 

 

 

stress, inflammation, energy, all keywords in hppd.

Bless you for trying to get this back on topic.

Once i got my organ, i couldn't keep my hands off of it !

Ahaha. Where the hell have you been?!

its amazing when the things you complain about are the same things you do.. whats good for the goose eh? i feel like we're now just playing a game of who can get the last word in.. i know you wont give up even if i completely ignore you so now im just going to keep pointing out the hypocrisy .. as far as what you've said we must do. your demands for explanations aren't you telling us we must give you concrete facts and proof for what we're saying to have any weight? .. that's not telling people they have to do something? or am i not allowed to do as you do and take peoples words out of context and apply them towards making a point?

 

don't appreciate when people do it to you, then stop doing it to them

I've not demanded an explanation, I've just challenged your idiocy. All I asked in this thread that set you off is "How would increased bloodflow "exercise" your organs? And why would internal oragans need exercising (or massaging) anyway? And what on earth would that have to do with HPPD?" If you're too much of a baby to handle questions like that (and it was just a question, not a demand; either you're too stupid to tell the difference or you're trying rhetorical tricks here) then maybe you shouldn't be on a public forum.

As far as I know no one on this forum has tried this medication (but please chime in if you have). I have just been given a two weeks' prescription and I will use this thread to document any improvements in symptoms or side effects.

Again, what have I told others they must do?

Also, "in the meantime keep responding if you feel the need to prove my point to them further. or do the sensible thing and stop being an ass and just ignore me and i'll ignore you like nice civil human beings should be able to do. if you cant just do that then all you are doing is showing that all you want is an argument".

Or, "you're a troll for responding but I'm not, and let me get the last jab in or your uncivil but I'm not uncivil if I keep responding".

I fear you might be undermining your complaint.

What have I told others that they must do? And why are you trying to continue this?

I don't want an argument but I won't be told what to do by you. With the exception of two retaliatory words in one post I'm entirely satisfied with how I've behaved. If you feel you behaved appropriately, fine. Let the moderators decide.

Did you report how you started throwing multiple insults?

For someone who wants an ignore user function you certianly seem to relish replying to my posts. 1. Where did you say for some?. 2. How do you know there are some people that can't be helped by medication? Regarding the women, god you're fucking dumb (yes I'm going join you in the insults thing, you've worn me down). I didn't say that what she asserted was not worthy of being discussed -it certianly was. What I pointed out, if I remember correctly, was that it was completely unsupported. And given the nature of the assertion it had better have very good support as it could affect peoples' thinking in terms of making a major life decision.

As for the last two paragraphs they're too full of spelling and grammatical errors, and just generally babyish and badly argued, to bother with.