TheSoberPotato

I also had an unsuccessful keppra trial I dropped about 2 weeks ago was prescribed for almost 8 months, did not do anything. I'm medicine free at the moment and it feels pretty good to not have the burden of having to pop a useless pill every day. 

Almost Famous (2000). It is about a 15 year old teenager who follows a rock band on tour to write an article about them on the Rolling Stones magazine.  It is a great movie and I don't want to spoil anything so watch it if you wish c:

Shit, sorry. Of course, Mike as well. and also Zakx.

Am I not bright either? I probably made myself look like an idiot when I first came, but I'm not completely belligerent by any means.

Umm, Damn I think I had it for almost 3 years or so. And yea, they're gone completely. I've come to realise that the only metal ailment hppd caused myself was crippling anxiety. Then other issues shot off from the main root (anxiety). And the visuals went away then the brain fog lifted and lastly, the fucking speech issues dissipated.

Keppra has not helped me with my visuals but I feel more intact with reality c:! I am still on Keppra and I will still take it cause it ain't even causing no nasty side effects. Shit I don't even care if I have HPPD for the rest of my life. I was always socially anxious and shit before but then I realized what the hell is the point of tripping over what other niggas think about me if its going to prevent me from having a good time? Now I can just run up on niggas and be like " Sup Bitches". Regretting ain't gonna get anyone no where. Just learn your lessons and move on. I understand some niggas got massive anxiety and shit of that sort. It is not by any means an easy fix. What I did was basically I realized that being a little bitch ain't gonna fix nothing so I just was like fuck being a lazy ass depressed ass nigga and just start BALLIN! So yeah that is where I stand in life now, BALLIN!

http://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/18t2nf/hppdhallucinogen_persisting_perception_disorder/

Here is the current HPPD discussion I started on reddit. I don't know much about reddit but if the post is not constantly getting messages it will eventually die off. Please try to keep it active. Even if it dies off I will start another one and hopefully get it more attention.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/18t2nf/hppdhallucinogen_persisting_perception_disorder/

Join the HPPD discussion I started on reddit guys its getting pretty popular !

The keppra just isn't doing shit and I am planning on dropping it altogether but besides that I am feeling pretty damn good. I have not had a panic attack in about 3 months and rarely had any anxiety. My HPPD has not gotten any better. I am currently looking into spreading out information about HPPD on multiple and diverse forums to get this disorder more acknowledgement. I want to have more people recognize this disorder and hopefully get some neuroscientists informed about it because I know that many psychiatrists and others in the medical industry have never even heard of it.

~TheSoberPotato

I've been lurking /b/ for four years now and i've started threads about hppd on both /b/ and /m/ (i think, the medical forum anyway) and i've had a few people replying and telling they have either hppd or just visual snow. I think that there's lots of people out there with hppd.

I never really went onto 4chan before but I do visit reddit daily. What is /b/ and /m/? Is it the Random and Mecha sections of 4chan? I checked those out and /b/ was just filled with naked girls + gore and /m/ was filled with anime lol. I will post up info on HPPD on reddit although a couple people did already I will try to start a discussion to get people who have it to join our community as well to spread the word that HPPD needs more research. Reddit has become pretty god damn popular even a couple celebrities and politicians go on there regularly.

I developed noticeable mild hppd about a year ago. Not-so-noticible symptoms began about 2-3 years ago. Accompanying these symptoms were short bouts of DP following drug usage. I stopped most of my drug usage, including pot but excluding alcohol, for about 6 months. Now i'm back on the herb and have been puffing away happily for almost a couple months. Whereas 6 months ago weed would trigger anxiety attacks for me, now i get nothing like that even if i get completely fried. I haven't noticed any worsening of symptoms, either.

My symptoms:

Visual Snow - mild-medium (kinda bugs me when it think about it but doesn't get in the way of anything)

Ghosting - happens pretty rarely but it happens

Tracers/trailers/whatever -i see them on passing cars sometimes, and if i wave my hand in front of my face. On the mild side.

None of that affects my life at all. Unless I'm consciously worrying about it getting worse, which does get to me when I'm paranoid.

Symptoms that have gone away:

Morphing. This has completely gone away (haven't touched acid in 2 years, molly in over a year)

DP - haven't had an episode in 6 months

Squigglies in the sky have receded to the point of not being a symptom.

I guess my question is, will it get worse with smoking. Tell me about your experiences.

I can not really tell if my visuals get worse after smoking weed because it actually enhances my vision a bit, but the HPPD is still there obviously just makes things look sharper. I get a bit dissociated from weed and actually hear voices after smoking weed without taking anything else. Its pretty damn weird hearing voices just from smoking weed so I avoid it and if I ever use pot I take a couple benzos since I can get pretty anxious. I completely avoid pot now because I feel it is best to remain sober if I want a good chance for my HPPD to get better. I get that same "brain fog" thing you talk about the next day after a day spent smoking lots of weed.

What we really need to do is get more people aware of HPPD. The internet is a great place obviously, what we really need to do is go around forums telling people about how our disorder is basically neglected. Some people have had it for decades and there doesn't seem to be more then like 10 people researching it. I will go on basically any popular forum (reddit, 4chan, medical forums, etc) even though many of them might just mock us I will still do it.

Shit this is a really late reply to you, but I have gotten HPPD from what I feel was mainly DXM, Spice, Inhalants, and Diphenhydramine. What is wierd about that is that the drugs I feel got me the HPPD are all non-scheduled drugs except that certain Spice chemicals are already schedule 1 in the U.S. but they still sell the spice products just with different chemicals. I already posted up my story and experience with it months ago. I had really bad panic attacks from spice too. http://hppdonline.co...iphenhydramine/

Just push yourself through it man. Come out stronger then you were before and acknowledge how strong you are for simply putting up with the bullshit as long as you did. Many people kill themselves over less because they just don't feel like even trying. I have never felt as good as I do now from actually doing things not just trying.

This really brings me hope that my HPPD will get better with time but from what I remember you told me you were not completely sober throughout your experience with HPPD.

Man don't go back to using any drugs if you really want your HPPD better. Exercise, eat fruits/vegetables, and keep yourself occupied. I found those three simple things to help my depression out. Fuck psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical companies who push out barely-tested chemicals to the public.

Shit man I just see HPPD more as having your vision held back from its full potential. My visual snow is so bad that from about 10 feet away everything is just drenched in it and I can hardly make out what people's faces look like. If they are even farther their face is just so encumbered by the visual snow I can't even tell they have facial features such as eyes, mouth or a nose. I really want to know if maybe getting some prescription glasses would help out the static but I just hate the idea of having to rely on some exterior object to enhance your vision. I had blurry vision before HPPD so I bet glasses would just simply make my vision less blurry but the static and other visual distortions would stay. Shit I'ma see whats up.

I'm on my 27th day of Keppra and so far there is no difference in my HPPD. I will try it for a month more if that doesn't help then I will just stop taking it. I hope it helps you out Style !

The keppra does not seem to have any side effects on me whatsoever and I can't see any noticeable improvements in my hppd. I am willing to try it out for maybe a couple weeks or months more see if it does me any good.

Pretty sure my klon is generic which is shit. I want the Roche stuff!! Most I've took in a day is 6-7mg. (With drink too though). Must admit when I hol a good few months ago I had ran out of klon so hit the local pharmacy who only had Xanax (which I had never taken). I took 20 .5 mg pills over 2 days and it was much more enjoyable than klono in a 'buzz' sense. Every benzos better than klono in a buzz sense. But klono does what it says on the tin and quietens down your overexcited neurons.

I never really thought that generic prescription drugs were any different then brand name. Are you saying that generic pharmaceuticals are not as good as the brand name? I have never seen any brand name pharmaceuticals on the streets.

Stay clean man, I find that any drugs other then benzos make my hppd worsen. I would completely avoid any and all drugs for recreational use. Even certain prescribed drugs can make it worse. I gave Hppd a try for a year without medication and have not seen any improvement. I decided to try keppra and so far from the 10 days I've started taken it I have not seen any improvements. Many medications take weeks to months for full effects so if you are willing to try out something that you think might work give it time. I would highly recommend staying clean for at least a year without trying medications or just stay clean your whole life. Hope you get better <3

Dude, the exact same thing happened to me 6 months ago. It absolutely scared the shit out of me. I thought I was permanently fried. I consumed a bunch of MDMA and LSD at a festival one weekend. I'm still regretting it... I had all the same symptoms as you. I'd say I'm about halfway there. You just have to try and stay positive to let your brain heal. If you worry about it too much and over-excite your brain it will be a way slower recovery. I got into a neuropsychologist 2 months after it happened, I wish I would have went in right away..

I can guarantee you that everyone on here regrets their drug use. If they did not then they would probably not be here. Everyone makes mistakes and we chose to make mistakes others have done numerous times before. All I can say is eat healthy, exercise, and avoid drug abuse/bad habits.

I would have to agree with everything newmember12345 said. I would also add that benzos typically don't really help the HPPD they just mask it. I am just taking a shot at the dark saying that most people who said that the "benzos worked" were probably getting a nasty habit for them or just getting to sell/use recreationally. I am just guessing that don't take my word for it. I also personally experienced worsened HPPD with anxiety. The benzos work for people by temporarily alleviating the user's anxiety and making them worry-free about their HPPD. I feel like it just isn't good in the long run and should be avoided as much as possible. There is a reason why most psychiatrists prescribe benzos after everything else. I would try to treat anxiety without drugs and with a healthy diet plus exercise.

So crazy, Ive been suffering from all these problems throughout my body for 5 yrs. I thought it as due to sports and work injuries, but my mri"s keep showing up fine for the most post. Also any body out there starting klonopin Its not worth it. It will catch up to u in the long run and possibly destroy anything you ever had going for you until u complete a 6 month to 2 yr. Unbearable rehab. Sorry hate ppl bashing benzos but its just the truth

I've been put on klonopin and I only take a 0.5mg dose whenever I am feeling a panic attack coming on and that is usually once in about two weeks so I doubt it will hurt me at such low usage. 0.5mg is the lowest dose possible to be prescribed I think and it barely does anything to me. I know that xanax is much better then klonopin for treating panic attacks on spot but I doubt I'd ever get it prescribed with my drug abuse history.

I sleep deprived myself the other night and found that it worsened my HPPD as well as my DP/DR. I do not know how it could ever help DP/DR but people are different. I don't think anyone can argue that people need their sleep to function properly, yet too much sleep is not good and not enough isn't either.

Just experiment with sleeping hours and find out how much time of sleep you need to feel your best. I found that 8-9 hours of sleep helps me the most and anything more or less would aggravate my HPPD as well as make me feel tired the whole day.

I bet most of those are fake but they are still funny xD!