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How it's not a mental illness?

HBB I've read all your posts so I'm posting just to thank you for them. Please don't stop coming here, you all are very important.

Always keep whey and some ready to eat meats like ham, turkey breast for hose cases... and beware. If you THINK you are eating 15g of carbs you are probably eating more, because of hidden carbs everywhere (remedies, rounding, wrong labels)...

I answered yes without being 100% sure but almost...

Great great great post; I do want you to explain those mechanisms, if not asking too much. Thank you!

Are they planning to make an Android app?

You mean your liver? Thanks a lot for your report Donkey. Your reaction is more normal than you think, though. I've heard ~10 reports of people who went to Dr.A and it's all the same. The medicine didn't work, but they were happy to talk to someone who understood them etc. I'm just waiting a positive report of that secret remedy.

I'm posting this to aggregate knowledge. I had my visuals significantly reduced on a ocasion. It was just after I finished a very heavy weight workout. I stared a light to test my afterimages like I usually do and they were normal. But for some reason I felt like forcing my vision, so I strongly forced it against the light and surprisingly the strength of the light slowly decreased to a point I could see the dirt on the lamp, not just the absurd spot of light it used to be. I tested my visuals again and noticed I almost couldn't see them anymore. No logos on walls, afterimages, tracers - even if I attempted hard. The world outside was oddly normal. No scandalous reflecting surfaces, no shiny sky, almost no floaters. It felt very good. I expected it to be temporary and, unfortunatelly, it was. Every sympton returned the day after. Possible relevant facts are the entire reaction of my body after the workout (eg: heart pumping stronger and faster, changes in blood composition including glucose and hormones) and of the visual system after staring a strong light (eg: pupil dilatation or even an instant accomodation of the brain to light stimuli). I will test it further when possible.

Double post sorry. http://hppdonline.com/index.php/topic/320-sudden-reduction-of-visuals-after/

Moderator he's just saying his opinion and even if it's not what we wanted to hear, a person must have his freedom of speech. The moderators are there to stop those who disobey rules, like offending people and flooding, not who wants to give his opinion.

I love playing games w/ friends it doesn't effect my HPPD.

1998 why you started using clonazepam? Because a drug known as safe gave you a cronic disease. So, instead of learning from it and staying away from drugs you simply try to fight that disease with another drug? One that is known to have serious side effects? Everyone does it but I can`t understand the logic.

Unfortunatelly those articles on wikipedia are very poor technically. I still can't understand what is the exact cause of HPPD or at least what are the possible causes.

Great post David, thank you. Where's the neurobiology section?

This is another thing I never understood. I have read that neurotransmitter depletion is something that is slowly fixed as certain amines reach our brains. But what about their receptors? When a receptor is damaged, how is it fixed? Is our brain continuously making new receptors? I have seen an animation showing how a strange molecule that is similar to a neurotransmitter will bind to a receptor as if it were the neurotransmitter, but leaving a kind of damage because of it's different structure. If that is true I wonder why nobody talks about this effect when the subject is HPPD, because looking at the structure of LSD, it is really similar to serotonin. In time, if the problem is actually a change in receptors density, aren't there lots of methods available to up regulate a group of receptors?

I really wanted to participate on this trial but unfortunatelly travelling to boston is out of question for me. I would really like to know what is the drug used so I can talk to a local doctor. I think it's unfair that only those who live next to boston or that have the time and resources to travel to it can have the chance of participating.

I still can't understand anything. If someone could answer me I would like first to ask the basic questions: 1- What are afterimages and why and how they happen? 2- What exactly is HPPD? Death of neurons? Damage on receptors? Changes on synaptic strength? Wrongly rewired synapses? What?

What do you mean with seeing in frames? You could only see 1 image per second? Seriously? Why? Anyway I think those neurons of our visual cortex are made when we born and never changed. They hold built-in structures that should not be changed during your lifetime (why would we need to change the way we process visual stimuli). So I believe they are not replicating at all. It's just a guess I don't know anything about neurology, but I can't imagine how our vision could work if those neurons didn't hold a very reliable anti-replication mechanism.

What I can say is that those who used LSD many times without problems are the ones with more chance of recovery. I suggest you not to trip again it. You got HPPD so you are not a person to toy with psychodelics. It can cause you a level of harm that you will regret forever. That goes from dr/dp etc to a completely fucked vision like some people here have. Would you still accept your vision if you were almost blind? Some HPPDers are. There are things more interesting than being on drugs.

What an absurd. Can he really do it? Even if you say you wanna stop?

I didn't understand, both SQL files are corrupted but you still have the forum saved elsewhere? You could export just the posts to this forum or make the information available online for us. It's a boring task but if you are lacking time I can do it for you. If you think this is necessary, yes, I am interested in working in anything related to HPPD that I can be useful. I'm not aware of what is going on, could you give me an summary of what are the current projects running?

Curious to know the name of the drug, too, even though I think a drug can't be the solution.

Why do you think molecules could be capable of intelligently rewiring synapses, resynthetizing dead neurons and messing with receptors to give your brain to the exact structure it had before HPPD?

Did you try following the schedules of prof. Heather Ashton? Or dropping less? 1/4 of the .25 every week would get you free in a year. I would do a deep check up, sudden physical fadigue is never a good sign.

You never answers me, but thanks for everything you are doing. Do you still have all the information of the old forum there? If you do why you keep it for you? I think I can export it to this forum or at least make it available for query online if this is the problem.