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I already do both lol. I would use those ear candles, but i know somebody who just broke their ear drum with one. Im just happy these gabbapentin wds are going away...

I feel your pain 3rd tour of duty, Exercising hard core is my answer to this....get all that dam anxiety out so you can relax for a bit. Plus the girls tend to notice you more

I have ear pressure and tinnitus. For me the beeping noise doesn't bother me. What does is having pressure in my ears like I'm scuba diving and constantly have to equalize. When I hear music ect. sometimes I'll get a migraine like headache (headpressure) just from noise, it's like my brain is having such a hard time proscessing info. my cns doesn't know how to react. Ps. Benzo wd's can make earpressure unbearable/ it's lke rice crispies. snap, crackle and popping in your ears constanly

Anxiety, head pressure, fatigue, dp/dr but most of all the muscle tension throughout my whole body. It's pretty crazy about this being a visual disorder, yet that's not on my list of complaints. Todays a good day, but always have time to complain lol gd all!!

I've read nuerontin has a off label use for treating hot flashes. I honestly dont know whats going on cause im still getting hot flashes and my toes are twitching like crazy. Dam im confused lol, atleast im happy for now after working out...

I took extra nuerontin and it helped for a couple hrs but im still getting major hot flashes. It must be anxiety, cause all im doing is watching tv. Everytime i think i have hppd figured out it throws me a curveball. Now i need to figure out whats causing this anxiety. It could just be hppd but i have a scary feeling its klonopin tolerance. If thats the case I dont even want to think about it honestly. Take care i appreciate ur response.

I forgot to mention that I am currently taking nuerontin. this drug is way more addicting than I thought, I think I found the problem. hopefully ateast I'd much rather go down on nuerontin then klono

besides klono, I haven't taken or done anything (drugs) in a while. but I constantly get hot and cold flashes throughout the day. Is this due to klonopin tolerance, or is this just a part of HPPD???? Ive been taking benzos since the onset so I'm really not sure how I'm supposed to feel without them, I would be grateful for any answers suggestions, I need to get back to work thanks!!

Same exact reason i quit this med. That's awesome that you're feeling better overall though congrats. Btw you'll be feeling back to norm in no time, no worries!!

BTW, never getting off klonopin as long as prescribed we're soulmates Kinda like getting married, once you commit, you're commited I just have to keep working, exercising, spending time w/ family ect. Hppd is hell to live with, but if we're lucky enough to have the internet and $ in this struggling economy and cruel world, it's def. worth the ups and downs. After watching 4 hrs of the science channel, doesn't seem like we'll have too many blue planet's to kick it on. So gotta give this one a try lol. But for real, I'm trying hard. I've been completely sober since my last post (besides K-pin) and I just took my last 50 vicodin and flushed them down the fucking toilet. I don't think anybody realizes how hard that is to do with hppd giving me pain 24/life I'm so proud of myself, I'm making my girl give me for doing that!! Rollingregret/ hope you're back to your baseline man. It's crazy, I don't actually know you, but w/ so many similiar experiences w/ (benzo's) It's kinda like I do. We all got so fucked getting hppd, but reading this board 24/7 just makes me regress. I've been doing better just hiking, golfing or whatever gets me living instead of trying to figure out how to live.

Dam i was drunk, sorry about that post. Paying for it today!!

What are you talking about? I'm greatful for any feedback, but GAD wtf is that

rollingregret, I think sometimes after we're used to a way around hppd, (like using benzo's or opiates) once you try to return to baseline, you realize why you went through hell to get on these drugs in the first place. I'm pretty sure I've become close to complete tolerance on 4 mg's of klonopin after 13yrs. I've been having the worst last couple of weeks just realizing I will eventually have to come off of klonopin and it's like a feeling of going to court for a death sentence. I don't know what's going on w' me. The only drug I've started different is nuerontin, but I've been extremely ...extremely suicidall lately and I've heard it has that side efffect on the commercials. I'm drunk pissd off, and just sick off taking pills and not knowingwhich one is working correctly. I should erase this post but fk it might as well get some feedback

I meant to say...how can opiates be easier to come off then benzo's Huge typing error, anyways good post. Cycling med's works great. I just became addicted so I took them all I was at my best at 2mg of klonopin around 6 yrs. ago, Hppd barely bothered me. But I was in better health, no herniated disks in back ect..and exercising is my best relief from hppd. Also I'm trying to figure out which med Im taking thats causing suicidal thoughts and just feeling negative towards everything at times. I'll just cut down on my nuerontin since I read those are side effects. Last time I tried to stop lyrica at a small dosage, it actually felt like benzo wd's. Nuerontin and lyrica wd's are much harder to stop then most would think. It seems Im just in constant w/d's it's annoying. It will just take some time, I'll be in a better mood after I drink my coffee:)

Four days ago I stopped taking vicodin and percocet c/t after 1 month of abuse. Averaging 30mg daily, Finally today 4 days later the w/d's are basically gone. How can these drugs be easier to come off of then opiates. I remember c/t 2mg of xanax daily after only 2 weeks of use and I wound up in the ER. after not sleeping for 4 days. Alright time for work later!

I know your joking but i take all the blame:) i just need to stop letting tbese benzo boards make me so paranoid. the wds i was going through last time when I was cutting were hard but possible. Plus my memory started coming back as well as being more clear minded. Im tolerant to my klonopin, but it def still works if i fall asleep after i take it. Thx for any concerns. Later all

''This is what they say about Benzo Detox: "This can lead to collapse of marriages, business failures, bankruptcy, committal to a hospital and the most serious adverse effect, suicide." --------Sounds positive. ...Anyway slow w/d is like 65-100% success supposedly. '' I've thought about this many times. Don't want to think about it becoming reality.

Reading this guys post has made me feel much better about taking klonopin longterm. "The length of time one has been dealing with anxiety/panic, and the severity of the condition, surely must play a part in medication decisions. i was anxious for much of my life, had had severe panic disorder for 10 years, and tried numerous antidepressants and a couple of benzos, before a new pdoc put me on 1mg klonopin 3x/day. changed my life. if someone is just going through some relatively short rough patch, or is in an unusual crisis that won't be lifelong, then more short-term medication trials are no doubt in order. me, i'd had 14 years of therapy before being put on klonopin (therapy was extremely helpful, by the way, and i don't regret a minute or a dollar of it, but it did nothing to prevent or cure panic disorder once it hit), and klonopin was a godsend. i started at 3mg/day and have stayed at that dose for 15 years (attempts to lower the dose send me back to where i was pre-klonopin). sometimes the possibility of being on a medication for life is worth worrying about. and many times it definitely isn't. i don't think it sucks when it's necessary. i mean, why hate being dependent on a substance to survive? (don't we depend on air, water, food, shelter? other people? is that weak or something?) i hate to see people looking at necessities so negatively. everyone has crap to deal with, for life. needing a psych med for life is no different from needing insulin for chronic diabetes, or a pacemaker for a bad heart, or a cast for a broken leg, or antibiotics for a bad infection, or glasses for blurry vision, or antacids for chronically painful heartburn, or orthotics for flat feet, or whatever. the way i see klonopin, i'm damned lucky there is a medication likely to allow the rest of my life to be worth living, and lucky that someone finally had the good sense to try me on it. there were only so many more emergency room visits, bouts of smothering hyperventilation, and bow-outs from public events that i could have stood"

I'm just tired and venting. But what really pisses me off is I was feeling great on 2mg of klonopin daily after 6 yrs. of use. Not much tolerance no side effects, and then I met opiates. After messing around with those and upping my klonopin to 8mg daily at times just to get high, I could never make it back down to 2mg of klono daily. I'm current on 4mg and not taking the other drugs and just don't feel nearly as happy and def not as energetic as I used to. I'm not sure what has happened to me, but eventually I'm going to quit my job and go through very bad w/d's for a year or two so I feel normal again. I need to figure out what to do about getting off klonopin or atleast down to 1 or 2 mg. daily and I'm fcking scared. Especially knowing my wife will have to watch me and the last thing I want to do is lash out at her for no reason except wd's. IDK, I have a good life, but I could make it a lot better if I went through some serious wd's sorry i just don't know who else to vent to, Hppd has beaten the fuck outta me

My visuals look very similiar when I smoke weed and stop, take care! Painkillers make me love hppd lol, if I could find one that wasn't addicting or you didn't get tolerant to, it would be as good as a cure..shit that's more likely to happen then them figuring out a cure so I'll keep my hopes up

These are pics of ocular migraines I get occasionally. The light show usually lasts from 15 to 35 min. mainly in my peripheral vision, one and sometimes both eyes are involved. After the crazy lights subside I get major migraines for 4 to 6 hrs. Although some ppl get ocular migraines w/o the horrific migraine afterwards. I get daily tension, cluster headaches and headpressure, but exercise helps greatly keeping those in check. Although migraines (w/ or w/o visuals) usually get worse if I try to exercise best to lay in a dark quite room. I just try to be active and most of these hppd (anxiety) induced headaches will come and go through out the day but aren't nearly as severe. As far as meds, try muscle relaxers like flexeril, soma or zanaflex. If they still won't go away vicodin, percocet and benzo's will knock them out. Narcotics are obviously the last resort since we get these on a daily basis so you'll always have to be taking them. Try the muscle relaxers, Zanaflex and Soma work the best with minimum addiction. Caffeine helps w/ any migraine type headache but of course ups your anxiety. My Nuero gave me Fiorocet barbitual tablets with caffeine, those are great for migraines since the barbituates calm you and the caffeine helps as well. This info cost me 30k to find out going to specialist after specialists (didn't know about the hppd board back then I never got any of this pre-hppd either. I didn't reread this or more then one post in this thread, hopefully it helps and makes sense....take care all!!

I honestly had no idea you could just develope alot of the same visual symptoms w/o ever taking drugs sorry to hear that! I've always fealt a major lawsuit towards a big pharmaceutical company due to VS being listed as a possible side effect, would be hppders greatest chance at some sort of cure, with all their billions and top notch scientists they could figure something out if they wanted to, which I know they don't...just being optimistic

I had/have all these symptoms, I fealt much better 2yrs. after the onset and staying 100% sober.

That's one benzo I have no experience w/. I"m not sure if it would be easier crossing over to another benzo to wean off. I would check. Benzobuddies.org Can't get this underline off, Anyways don't read the horror stories, that's usually ppl that cold turkey it. That sites helped me alot, especially the chat room, Remember that some of those ppl are so anti-benzo's they get dramatic, Take care, This underline is hard to figure out how to undo

my phone is a samsung lmao 4g gallaxy, anyways I'll prob return it for newest I-phone. So back to benzo's......They are as confusing as can be????? I just don't think about it and go w/ the flow (or atleast try). Have to take off to work right now and get my mind off this shit. Later bro, you're a good person! When I feel like hell you really do help me out, can't tell you how much I appreciate having an online hppd/benzo counselor