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Chente455: I smoked weed throughout my HPPD recovery, I got mine from ayahuasca so that may vary for you, my symptoms were more severe compared to what you describe, sounds like you've got a depression of some sort causing the slowness in thought. I'm sure you will recover but never take acid again.

My psych prescribed quetiapine to me for HPPD, I read about it on erowid and was sure not to take them. 

I got HPPD a year ago from ayahuasca and 10 weeks after that I got very bad DP/DR after messing with aya again, after images would last minutes, impaired motor function. existential thoughts, visual snow, macropsia, everything looking unreal, etc.

I've reached a similar place as OP, all symptoms have decreased to a manageable level and life bears more resemblance to what it used to be like.

I've exercised everyday but also drank beer and smoked weed throughout, I had mdma and speed intermittently and I recovered at the same rate as when I stayed sober even though getting intoxicated exacerbated symptoms.

I avoided anti depressants or any other pharmas.

My diet stayed the same, I had a spell taking 5-htp and other vitamins but not sure they did anything.

The best thing ultimately has been sleep and time.

I've only ever tripped on smoked dmt and ayahuasca, no acid or mushrooms.

I've been taking lions mane mushroom for two weeks, I think theres been a direct improvement, alertness and closer to being 'in the moment', I do notice the difference when I haven't had any for a day, head pressure starts mounting etc. Got bacopa monnieri on it's way and will try piracetam after that. I have not had any side effects from lions mane.

On a side note I had mdma twice in the last week and after each time my floaters diminished, I can hardly see any where there used to be a spatter of them

Definitely try 5HTP 200mg a day and see how it goes, I'm starting to sense a connection between missing 5HTP and an increase in symptoms. I have improved significantly since my last post, though my HPPD may be different from others as it was from ayahuasca which I haven't been able to find any stories linked to permanent HPPD. I could be 100% wrong on all this mind you, just my current opinion.

For me, weed makes it come up worse but doesn't halt or reverse the recovery process.

I got my HPPD a month ago through big dose of formosahuasca, never taken other psyches/entheogens apart from changa/dmt and mdma..

The symptoms are wearing away agonizingly slowly. 5HTP has been good to me so far.

HPPD is really serious I would urge anyone dabbling in psyches to always keep well on the safe side of dosing and frequency of use, or you might wake up in a permanent hell.

I've been taking 50mg 5HTP but just took 200mg an hour ago and I feel an improvement, stabilizing of objects, slightly faster frame rate refresh rate i.e. less trails, and felt a connection for a moment, god I want this shit gone for good 

About to become senior programmer, worked tirelessly on music, went gym stoned 5 days a week and running after.. not as bad as many peoples stories who my heart goes out to, 2c-i seems to be a big contributor I hope you guys get better. I've not come across one satisfying hppd full recovery story yet, stay away from all psychedelics for their incurable nature if things go wrong. 

Hey all I've decided to check myself into this forum after dealing with what I think is mild hppd for a few months now.

About two years ago I dosed my first shroom trip, and no hppd after that. After that first trip though I was obsessed with psychedellics after having lived a life where many people around me demonized such activities I felt pulled towards them. I did Ayahuasca a few times and this is where I had my major break throughs and where the first 'ego demons' I call them made themselves present. I then did some amanitas and I think that was a mistake because I had a very odd trip which caused some linger thoughts about how worthless life was for weeks. I quit everything but pot after this, but I was smoking pot every day and nothing but pretty potent stuff. I tried doing Ayahuasca again after a couple months and the brews failed so I started getting aggitated and upping the dose of my mimosa until I finally got a trip and it blew me to peices. I woke up on my living room floor and I felt like lifetimes had passed, and I no longer knew what I wanted to do with my life.

I continued smoking pot, and then I moved back in to parents live to be closer to my family. My family was an extremely stressing environment with my parents getting divorced and my siblings never could get along. All this with trying to find a job and being broke life was really getting to me. I couldn't sleep at night without marijuana, and this was really starting to bother me because I hadn't dealt with this since after the Army. No I do not have PTSD nor have I ever seen actual combat. But I was in a unit with extremely obessive morons who would make us stay awake 30-40 hours at a time for no reason in the field, and this caused me to develop insomnia which I treated myself with marijuana after I got out of the military.

I had a bad experience with the military and got out on a other than honorable discharge because I no longer wanted to be in but I was in the 82nd they wouldn't hear it so I started smoking pot and protesting the war in fatigues, and this really really messed up my life. It took a lot of overcome my parents negative views of me and move on with life.

At this point I work as a network technician and I like my job for the most part. I try to keep my life as low stress as possible, and I'm going to quit smoking pot starting next week. I would like to get rid of my hppd. I want to see nature clear again. I want to see the stars and night sky without tracers and weird distortions...

My symptoms are not that bad I think, but I really don't know because I haven't been to a doctor. At night I tend to see tracers, but not really when I'm driving. It seems if I have to focus on a task I rarely notice floaters, tracers, or the fog. If I sit and look at a light in the dark I will see a tracer for about ~15seconds or so sometimes...

I notice sometimes I will be in the bathroom and I can see this odd visual fog type of almost optical illusion which seems like atoms flying through reality from another dimension is all I can make of it, but I know its a hallucination.

I tend to get obsessed in thinking about my life and the future, because I get bored and idle. I try to keep myself busy with car projects, music, and games. Then I started noticing myself getting lost in obsessional thought listening to music and to the point where I would not even hear the music anymore! This really scared me one time and I decided I need to get out of this trance.

The thing is I love hallucinogens especially DMT because it has helped me get over so many personal problems in my life and it has taught me how to love myself again and appreciate life for what it is so I really don't know what to do in the long run, because I don't want the hppd back once its gone, but I also know I can't die from it so maybe I should just deal with it to enjoy what I want from life. Anyways I have come here to figure out what I can do about this hppd.

Name is Rich btw I'm 22.

Sorry to hear about your time in the army, that sounds hellish on its own. On the aya, I also kept upping the dose until it smashed me when I got the brewing method right and forgot to test by sipping. One month on and I see tracers and if I get stoned objects skew. Are you still experiencing HPPD and is there any advice you could give, like should I stop smoking weed? Hope youre better mate, cheers.