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It seemed to help for these 16, but then again hppd can go away on its own so it is hard to tell for sure if clonazepam sped things up. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12598822/

You mean chlorine gasses causing or aggravating hppd? No I haven't heard that but I have heard the fumes can be toxic in high enough concentration.

Therapy may help with HPPD. If someone has, for example, ocd then exposure therapy works by exposing someone to a fearful situation without the ability to perform the associated action that would provide relief. This is a form of applied behavioral therapy. Therapy likely can result in the growth of inhibitory neurons and help quiet an over active mind. There is information online that therapy improves intelligence. Like for example (although this isn't necessarily recommended for treating hppd as I don't know if it helps or not ) but lions main mushrooms act as a kappa opioid agonist, so they have a dysphoric short term effect but it also results in the growth of neurons. Although LM stimulates the brain in the short term, over the long term it can reduce anxiety. Also therapy helps with things like social phobia, schizophrenia, Alzheimer disease and helping someone concentrate during work. For some people with HPPD, visual symptoms may be accompanied by mild depersonalization symptoms without someone knowing they have mild depersonalization. They might just say they have anxiety disorder or something like that. Think of it like a sound guy trying to get sound through the speakers at an event: he might turn up one switch and turn down another switch to compensate, or there might be static or a feedback loop. Since different areas of the brain are connected: areas that process language, memories and social stations can have a strong impact on emotional stability. If someone is running from a bear they might not care or even notice that their feet are starting to hurt or something that. The brain has ways of turning down or activating different areas and emotion depending on the situation. If on the other hand someone is processing complex social situation, it may be necessary for the brain to tune out emotions in order to focus on other important but sublte things. There is also evidence that if you activate certain neurons, or practice certain thought patterns (say looking for beutiful things), those patterns get strengthened with time. Watching therapy and self help videos like the ones on Youtube may be helpful for decreasing hppd symptoms if they are done regularly for a long period of time (like say a couple hours every day for a week or longer). Healthy gamer GG has a lot of good videos such as this one on social anxiety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n6lDNacfk0

No It should be fine. NAC is a antioxidant, which is generally thought of as being good for reducing inflammation and helping with various different types of metal disorders. The only things that I suspect can put someone back or slow recovery are taking other hallucinogens or similar recreational drugs like alcohol.

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You probably have developed about all the tolerance to those medications that you will get by now if you have been taking them for a month or two. I don't know which drugs or amounts would work best so I can't help you with that. There are crisis lines you can call if you are suicidal or other people to talk to.

I don't think I would take more than one thing at the same time. Otherwise you may become addicted or there could be bad side effects (like if you don't ask a doctor beforehand). Other people might have ideas about which is best for hppd.

Are you eating healthy and getting enough fiber, avoiding alchhol etc? Anxiety can cause nausea but you may also have inflammation in your stomach that is making things worse. There are natural ways to get rid of H. Pylori infection for example which is very common and can be aggravated by stress. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5047973/ Green light therapy boost the endocannabinoid (anti-inflammitory) system, which may help with future headaches and nausea. Also I would take zinc and some niacin. Zinc and Niacin are shown to reduce nausea after alcohol consumption. Thiamine also may help as it has antioxidant potential. It can take a few weeks to get used to i though.

If there is a new antidepression drug the drug gets tested in clinical trials that might involve hundreds (or thousands) of people taking the drugs along with hundreds of people taking the placebo. Then through complicated statistical computations they can make a guess if the drug works and how effective it is. This is very expensive though and there are challenges to get good data for something that not very well understood like and difficult to figure out like hppd. We are just left with limited data quality data for drugs and hppd, but most of the data is either positive or neutral. Such as this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12598822/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736944/ Other drugs such as alcohol, nicotine and hallucinogens should be avoided. Other herbs like Saint Johns wort, could be useful but there isn't really any data at this point. On this forum, if someone symptoms get worse they are likely to blame pharm. type drugs if they are taking them, or if they have withdrawals however that could happen on it own without drugs. There is evidence that anti-depression drugs save lives, although for individual people it can aggravate depression or be ineffective.

Sure it could but I would quit coke and alcohol if you can.

Did you get it after taking hallucinogens?

Yes it looks fine to me. You could also speed up the timeline if you wanted. If you aren't getting strong withdrawal symptoms, that means your brain is adjusting neurotransmitter levels. You don't want to make any quick changes in neurotransmitter levels, but if you make a small one and wait a few days and if you don't notice any withdrawal symptoms you can reduce your dosage again.

It may be useful having the medications around for panic attacks. Some people with hppd only take medications, in the same way you are thinking about doing for panic attacks. I probably wouldn't take them regularly if your symptoms are tolerable and improving, but for some usage for flashbacks is fine. That is what I meant to say. Glad you are feeling better!

Seven days without flashbacks, on medication or without it? Are you talking about continuing the medication or starting? I don't think I would start taking it now if you feel fine most of the time, and your symptoms are generally mild. I think it would likely give you major withdrawal symptoms if you start taking it now.

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Green light therapy reduces pain such as nerve pain from fibromyalgia or the pain from headaches. It also likely lowers inflammation. I bought green safety glasses from ebay.

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It might help, I don't know. I don't think it is known why some people get HPPD and some do not. Inflammation might be part of the problem, or there could be a genetic link. Glutathione in an antioxidant, if I remember rightly that blocks and modulates nmda receptor. NAC has been shown to be partly effective at lowering anxiety levels in number of different brain disorders. Boosting antioxidants levels may be helpful at least partly, but I think people do get mixed results with that type of thing. A high fiber diet boosts SCFA which can be used as fuel by the brain, and lowers inflammation. Benfotiamine is a fat soluble form of Thiamine that can be more easily absorbed by nerves and the brain. Thiamine (depending on the dosage) acts as a nr-f2 activator with is anti-inflammatory.

Hppd is a condition that is in some ways similar to ptsd and in some ways different. For ptsd some research indicates that there are some autoimmune links or that it is driven or made worse by inflammation in the brain. Injecting drugs into the brains of mice (I don't know if they used a reasonable dosage or not) is likely to cause inflammation and neurological changes. If the dosages are reasonable it is likely the mice will recover, however I am not sure if this is connected to hppd directly. The changes might be stress related. If hallucinogens cause damage to certain brain cells (which I think is a possibility) it might be by altering how nerves fire. If you slow down or stop a neurons activation for a while it might "gasp for air" and have a patter of activation and inactivation that is abnormal. I could see how this might be toxic for neurons or select for neurons that function in a slightly different way from normal neurons. Like, for example, uv rays might make dark patches of skin grow larger as they aren't as effected by sun light compared to other areas of skin. Hallucinogen flashbacks might indicate that taking hallucinogens changes gene expression, how some or all neurons function or the pattern of connectivity in the brain. And then under certain circumstances this pattern is activated. Stress for some people can cause a flashback I have heard. The 5HT2A is likely a trigger for hppd I think however there may be multiple complex things going on, rather than just damaged neurons. 5ht2a receptor is present in immune cells also, so it is also likely that a hallucinogen could prevent the immune system from working properly which may prevent proper brain repair. I think people on this forum have had mixed results with this method: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8987195/ but it may give insight it to what might be causing hppd. Clonazepam up regulates the 5ht2a receptor is certain parts of the brain and down regulates it in other parts. https://cris.tau.ac.il/en/publications/clonazepam-treatment-of-lysergic-acid-diethylamide-induced-halluc

I think recovery is very likely or at least major improvement. I don't have hppd, just curious about it. You said you are tapering off of benzo. This means you may be having withdrawal symptoms which will make your symptoms worse, maybe a lot worse. I don't know about your particular case, but I think there is evidence that they can help with HPPD. If you have scientific evidence that benzos slow down healing of hppd, I am interested in seeing that. Otherwise If I were you I would probably continue using them. Here are some links that might be helpful. https://www.hppdonline.com/search/?q=clonazepam&quick=1 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/10889286_Clonazepam_treatment_of_lysergic_acid_diethylamide-induced_hallucinogen_persisting_perception_disorder_with_anxiety_features https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5870365/ There is no reason to think that you can't recover because you are 29. I think that a lot of people get hppd around that that age or older. The brain is developed long before 18, so if someone gets it at say 18 or 29 I don't think the age means much. I haven't heard that being young improves the chances of recovery rom hppd although it might. 29 is young though and I think that probably improves your odds rather than lowers them. Age slows down say a cut healing. However people who are young and old can heal from cuts. If you are 29 you can still recover well from a cut. I don't know if age matters for recovery from hppd, however if it does my best guess is being 29 is helpful not harmful. You are unlikely to get responses from people who have recovered as they aren't on the forum anymore. Those who have not recovered all the way are more likely to answer your question on this forum. I hope this helps and you recover completely soon.

In the above video there are a bunch of black and white dots that switch on and off. I found a website that has a bunch of visual effects I think for testing out computer screens. I do not have hppd I am just curious about it. I am curious the following website is helpful for hppd (either temporarily or longer) just like the video above is. https://www.testufo.com On the top right of the screen there is a drop-down menu to select different possible tests. https://www.testufo.com/eyetracking *warning extreme flashing lights seizure warning for the link below* https://www.testufo.com/rainboweffect https://www.testufo.com/flicker