KATE Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 Hi all, Has someone personally met dr. Abraham in Boston? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagermeister Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 Welcome, Kate. I can't help you, sorry. I'm spanish. I think David Kozin, the creator of hppdonline meets the doctor. Do are you from Boston? Are you interesting in plain a consult with him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KATE Posted December 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 Hi, I'm from Italy but out of desperation i wrote him a mail and i'm thinking of going to Boston.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgrade Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 He is certainly the expert in this field. But i am not sure what he could do to help. Maybe a lot, i am not sure. He could prescribe something. Gabapentin, Keppra, Klonopin, etc. Ease your mind. Give you tips on making things a bit better. Advise on some sort of therapy. I have not personally met him. If you have questions, I would not hesitate to PM David. I know he worked with Dr. A and John Halpern also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgrade Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 i may be able to find someone in Italy, that could help. I once found a good doctor for someone in Eastern Europe for a friend of mine. But she was too stubborn to go. You seem like you'd be willing to get help. So give me a bit and i will see if i can find something for you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgrade Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 Levetiracetam efficacy in Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorders:a prospective study. Casa, B, Bosio, A. Drug Monitoring Service, NewYork NY; USA; Mater Dei Clinic, Rome, Italy. Journal of the NeurologicalSciences, Volume 238, Supplement 1, 2005, p. S504.Abstracts of the XVIIIth World Congress of Neurology"Background: The occurrence of flashbacks following use of drugs is arecognised condition known as Hallucinogen Persisting PerceptionDisorders (HPPD), therapy for wlffch is based on neuroleptic andattticonvulsant medication. Tiffs prospective study assessed the efficacyof the novel antiepileptic drug levetiracetam (LEV) in treating patientswith HPPD over a 1-year period.Method: Patients with HPPD were treated with LEV 1500 mg/day(500 mg in the morning, 1000 mg in the evening) for 1 year. Dailyflashback frequency and electroencephalogram (EEG) assessmentswere conducted at Day 0, 15, 30, 60, 90, 180 and 360. The incidence ofadverse events was monitored throughout the study.Results: 27 patients (121 males, 6 females), with a mean age of 21.8(range 18-26) years, were enrolled. At baseline, mean daily flashbackfrequency was 9.3 (range 1-45) and EEG assessment demonstratedtemporal slow patterns in all patients. Over the 1-year treatmentperiod, 20/27 (74.1% ) patients became flashback-free. After 15 days,7/27 (25.9% ) patients were already without clinical manifestations,with 6 patients demonstrating > 75% reduction in flashback frequencyand 1 demonstrating 50-75% reduction. EEG patterns normalised in18/27 (66.7% ) patients after 30 days and in 23/27 (85.2% ) after90 days. 3/27 (11.1% ) patients continued to have flashbacks, despitecomplete disappearance of EEG abnormalities. Side effects werefew in incidence and mild in severity. No patient discontinuedtreatment.Conclusions: This study demonstrated LEV to be highly efficacious inthe treatment of HPPD, with very good tolerability and ease of use." *** B. Casa or A. Bosio -- Mater Dei Clinic, Rome, Italy. *** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgrade Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 I am having a hard time finding those researchers or doctors. If your English is ok, in comprehending reading material, you should definitely check this out, perhaps there is some connection (: /). You can probably find the original text which may be in Italian: 2014Sep 2014 Identification and quantitation of 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine in seized blotters. Leg Med (Tokyo) Leg Med (Tokyo) 2014 Sep 11. Epub 2014 Sep 11. Lucia Burrai, Maria Nieddu, Michele Palomba, Maria Antonietta Pirisi Dipartimento di Chimica e Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Via Muroni 23/a, 07100 Sassari, Italy. Electronic address: pirisi@uniss.it. Blotters are usually impregnated with hallucinogens such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD); only rarely other psychoactive substances are detected. In this work we identified 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine (DOB) and 2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine (DMA) in illicit blotters seized in Italy. This report describes a rapid method for the simultaneous identification and quantitation of DOB and its precursor (DMA) by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS-MS), using 2,3-dimethoxyphenethylamine-d3 as internal standard. Read More Free use for educational uses, Thank you: http://www.pubfacts.com/detail/25248801/Identification-and-quantitation-of-4-bromo-25-dimethoxyamphetamine-in-seized-blotters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KATE Posted December 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Thank you, you're lovely! Tomorrom I'll try to contact them.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagermeister Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Gentile -mg! In my opinion, I'm agree with -mg. First, you should look for help in your country and, if you don't found and can afford the trip, then go to Dr.Abraham. Only for your comfort and your money. Should be a doctor able to script you Keppra or other drugs in the beautiful Italy, although the rehab should focusing in healthy live style! I wish you luck. How time are you with hppd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KATE Posted December 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 So I got an appointment for the day after tomorrow with the author of the first article mg kindly sent me. And here's briefly my sad story. I started taking hard drugs when I was 16 years old and i stopped at 18. I just kept on smoking weed till I was 20. When I quit I suddenly started feeling strange, anxious, panic attacks and depression..But the doctors I saw didn't blame it on drugs, while they should have. I recovered after few years, i finished my college and I moved to India cause i studied indian languages and I love indian culture. I didn't touch drugs nor cigarettes for ten years, I was happily working for a humanitarian organization and i was teaching italian. Then, unluckily, I met an indian rock star. We desperately fell in love and, since he used to smoke weed, he convinced me after a while to start smoking up again. I smoked for one year and a half and then i decided to quit again. The day I quit I started having floaters, tinnitus and mainly random thoughts, flashback and so on, symptoms which are way more invasive than just the visual ones. This was happening eights months back. Useless to say that since then i've been through hell. I saw ten doctors, none of them was able to tell me what was going on. I understood by myself through this forum and pubmed. My EEG, PET, RMI are all negative, only the TMS showed that the right hemisphere is way more active than the left one. I described all my symptoms to Dr. Abraham and he told me to go to Boston..I might go in jan. Life is sad. Love and pot should be banned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgrade Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Love is OK. Its the people who are fucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghormeh Sabzi Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 I wouldn't advise going to Boston. It will be very expensive. I don't rate Dr. Abraham as much as others, despite what he has done. He seems too willing, IMO, to prescribe benzodiazepines. You can have a phone consultation with him which would be cheaper and he can send a report to your local doctor. I don't see the benefit of going all the way there unless you cannot find a local doctor willing to help, even if they don't know about HPPD. You can present to them research - this is how a lot of people go about things. Alternatively, there is to be a new clinic opening in London in early 2015 specifically for these types of visual perception disorders. PM me if you want contact details. You can find much better information on this forum and would be better off trying out medications and non-medical treatments suggested on here, if you can get a local doctor to prescribe them. There are lots of flaws in that Keppra study by the Italian institution and I'd be interested in what they have to say, if you can kindly report back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KATE Posted December 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Cool, I'll let u know tomorrow after the visit.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vino Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 Anyone know where one could find some more information about the clinic in London mentioned above? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LethargicAcid Posted February 21, 2015 Report Share Posted February 21, 2015 yeah im addicted to pot but it makes me so much worse i have to quit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 You'll go to Boston, tell your story, confirm what you already know and send you packing with a script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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