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Cheers dude if I got benzos I'd probably keep them for only rare use for special occasions last thing I need is some shit from another drug I'd say I can be strong willed I didn't drink for 8 months haha that took some will power I can tell ya what I really wanna try is keppra and a few other drugs I've heard may help

I have to admit I have a pretty shitty willpower, but when I got prescribed klonopin it very quickly became one of my DOCs...I'm sure you can handle it but I'm just saying that stuff is powerfully addictive, especially if you have anxiety or dpdr. I don't take it as prescribed, but I do take it as much as I can before one would hit WDs. I'm scared one of these days I'll cross that line. Like I said, I'm sure you can handle it but just be careful, given you even get some haha. So is hydroxyzine OTC where you live? You should give it a try. Reduces visuals a tad bit and makes sleep really easy.

Different types of hppd? Definettely. I have minimal dpdr but my visuals are strange. It seems like a have two layers of snow - the shapes and geometric mesh which is dense and in the middle of my vision, and then theres a thin layer of static which is more spread out. Weird.

I wish I could help you more but from what I've read on this board all doctors are pretty inconsistent with their knowledge of HPPD/visual snow. My dad, an ophthalmologist and eye surgeon, has no knlowledge of visual snow. However, a GP who specializes in the treatment of viruses was the one who diagnosed me with anxiety/visual snow/HPPD (actually I really don't what exactly he diagnosed me with haha, the point is she recognized this strange phenomena) and prescribed me klonopin and atarax. You might need to see multiple doctors before one of them recognizes and understands the problem. From MY PERSONAL experience I'd say just to go find a new GP that won't be sending you to neurologists for verification, BUT others have had luck with those neurologists. Even if your doc doesn't believe in HPPD, symptoms of HPPD like anxiety and insomnia (especially combined) can still warrant an anxiety medication script. And if you just want something for DP/DR, I would think that would be easily obtainable by just complaining about DP/DR.

Out of your two choices, I'd see the neurologist because I would think neurologists would be the doctors that would be more knowledgable about drugs causing permanent strange activity in the brain. However, if the ophthalmologist also has neurology experience, it probably wouldn't matter that much who you decided to go to.

At the same time,

"I would suggest going to the opthamologist first to clear the fact there's nothing wrong with your eyes. So when you go to another neurologist, if they question you on possible eye problems you will be able to show you've already checked that"

this is a very good point.

All in all, I'm sorry I'm giving you a very mixed and unclear response, but I don't really know too much about doctors in the UK. From what I've heard, benzos are hard to get over there if that's what you're trying to get. If that's the case then you should just try hydroxizine first (i think its otc over there) as it helped me a lot. If you do get a benzo script, you'll probably end up abusing it or become physically dependent on it unless you have the will of steel haha. Good luck man.

Nah your fine man. It can happen to everyone who uses opiates, be it their 1st therapeutic use or their 100th time shooting dope. Hydrocodone and Oxycodone are especially notorious for stuff like hearing damage. It will recover in time, just avoid all other drugs until it goes away. I myself got a batch of poppy seeds that when I made tea of gave me terrible tinnitus, but it was never permanent. Ever since then my hearing gets funky/tinnitus-y when I use any opiate, but then it goes away.

It's been a couple days now, so how you feeling?

Edit: also this shouldn't really affect your HPPD either

^ oh shit and how could I have forgotten Visual?! He's definitely up there too haha!

I couldn't have overcome HPPD without this site. Given HPPD is still with me and I still abuse many drugs (not so much pot anymore), I couldn't have settled in without this website. There's barely any more anxiety, I don't see circles anymore, I can get to sleep pretty quickly now, and my visuals aren't as bad as they were several months ago. I miss the people who used to frequent this site at the same time I was on a lot, but I hope they either recovered or settled in too. I'd really like to thank david and jay the most, but I cant forget others like nepu, merkan, 2mm, ferret, mike, morbide, mg, boogres, and oliver just off the top of my head (to the others i'm forgetting - you know who you are...there are just too many lol). This is an amazing community and I hope I've helped some people on here the same way they've helped me. I hope my small $20 donation went somewhere and I truly cannot thank you guys enough. I had just turned 16 when I crawled onto this site thinking that my world was over. It's been over 10 months now and I'm back on my feet feeling almost 100% normal again. I'm sure my visuals (which don't bother me much anymore) will go away, I just gotta get completely sober (which I've probably said about 100 times now haha). Anyways, sorry about writing a fuckin tome about this but I can't even put in enough words about how much this site helped me. Thanks everyone.

I don't really have any tips but I used to have really weird DR. It's thankfully mostly gone now. Just try to keep your head up, everything will get better over time.

Xanax doesn't effect me at all; I don't even feel it. Klonopin on the other and helps me tremendously. It doesn't really lessen my visuals that much unless I take a big dose but when I smoked pot on klonopin my visuals didn't increase.

Xanax is usually used for panic attacks and klonopin for all day anxiety relief, so whatever floats your boat. You should ask your doctor to try both of them though, just to see which one works better for you.

a couple months ago school, social life, drugs, and sleep deprivation were putting a strain on me. I chilled out hard when summer vacation started and my anxiety and visuals dropped. id say take a breather

does it happen with other patterns?

how much clonazepam were you on each night? I wouldn't stop completely cold turkey if I were you as I've read somewhere that it can mess with the receptor it targets (I'll look for the source). you should look into a valium taper and go reeeaaally slowly. Like if your on 1 mg of klonopin a night, get on 10 mg of valium and then taper off 1 mg every two weeks.

I'd say stay away from kratom, I almost tried it but I got talked out of it here

My doc prescribes me Suboxone.

Pretty sure he would prescribe me anything i ask for... Crazy really, but i'm not complaining.

haha yeah my doc doesn't really understand hppd...I probably could've walked out of his office with a MMJ card lol.

but suboxone is pretty potent, since you have a pretty low tolerance (i'm guessing) I hope your being careful with it

morbide suggested hydroxizine, a very sedating antihistamine a while ago. it helped me a lot, made sleep VERY easy and decreased visuals somewhat. Anxiety was completely gone. however, it makes you really drowsy all the time if you take it on a daily basis.

If I kill myself over hppd it will be like leaving las Vegas, one hundred liters of whiskey and a prostitute

Woah man i hope ur joking. Dont worry, youll get "settled in" soon enough! Keep ur head up

I'm not posting very often and my posts doesn't have much valuable info to them but i just want to keep in touch, much internet love to you all!

keep it up man, I kinda miss the people who used to post regularly but then stopped suddenly :\. At least that means they're recovering though

There has been very little research medically done on the Corpus Callosum in terms of maintaining its health.

I wonder if anybody has any insight?

Isn't the corpus callosum the part of of the brain that connects the two hemispheres? In patients with severe epilepsy, sometimes the corpus callosum is surgically cut to totally cut out all weird brain activity. It's very interesting, if anybody has free time they should research the procedure and the outcome. It literally cuts the brain in half so that the two hemispheres can not communicate with eachother, however the people come out the same person as before, almost totally normal, but their brain does some weird stuff. anyways, like i said, research it, but the thing to take away from it - the procedure does cure epilepsy. I don't know which side of the brain the visual lobe (or whatever it's called) is on, or if there are different parts in both hemispheres, but what if all the weird impulses causing hppd are coming from the opposite side of the brain? it could cure hppd.

Any volunteers lol??

so if you've been here for a while you might remember me posting about how long it took me to stop habitually smoking pot. Well over the summer i got my shit together (well I had a couple slip ups) but i pretty much stayed sober. school just started again and now that I'm around all my friends and since visuals barely bother me anymore and my anxiety got way better i started smoking again i think 2 or 3 weeks ago. It's already made a difference. I thought that my symptoms were barely getting better while I was sober but now that i started again i remember what my visuals and anxiety were like a couple months ago.

I can't really say it's worth it anymore. if any of you still smoke then just give away your weed and stop right now. believe me, it's way better.

I know that everybody knows using drugs will make hppd worse, but I'm just posting this to try and convince anyone that is on the fence about quitting to stop. I feel so stupid that I kept smoking for 6 months after i initially got hppd.

I know man what's happening over here? Everybody's got it...i hope your case doesn't turn into an infection though!

I mean I don't know much about these drugs but wikipedia says one of the functions is as a weak sri. At first I had a really bad cold for a week and now I have a bad cough but now it's getting better. I haven't noticed any worsening symptoms yet after about 2 weeks of repeated use of both of them.

hahaha well I've been pretty sick lately so I was just wondering if all the benadryl and dxm I've been taking is bad for my hppd. wikipedia says they're both weak sris.

Everybody talks a lot about strong, prescription ssris, but how would, say, a weak sri affect my hppd?

I forget the names of the antibiotics I've used, but they were for treting lymes disease. I got hppd while on a 30 day antibiotic regimen. 6 months later I was taking 2 stronger antibiotics at the same time for about 5 weeks straight. They made me feel like absolute shit but no large, noticeable effect on visuals. I've also rubbed some antibiotic pimple cream on my face before, with 0 effects.

haha I know this post barely helps because I forget all the names of these pills, but like I said I 'contracted' HPPD while taking acid on that first antibiotic regime. anyways what antibiotics are you facing?

how does propoxyphen interact with HPPD? Opiates always improve my symptoms a tiny bit but this is apparently just an opioid. so what's it gonna do to my hppd? I'd love to hear some experiences!

Thanks for your work on the site! It's too bad we're losing you but at the same time I'm really glad you're moving on!

Sorry to hear that

could you go into more detail about what you think made you relapse though? did you actually get a contact buzz or did you just smell the smoke? What's your history with weed? how long was the lag between contact with smoke and the relapse?

You'll probably recover though if you did before!

Wow gmo^ I'm glad I don't have dp. I think that this thread is a great idea though, thinking positively goes such a long way!

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hallucinating isn't all that bad. the hazy, long-lasting afterimages make pretty colors everywhere