morbide Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 Hello! As the title says, i'm wondering if anyone has ever got rid of their visuals. I might have missed it if the question has already been asked though... Since my visual snow is imo my worst symtom, i'll do anything to get rid of it and i feel that visual snow is the symtom that gives me the most anxiety which then leads to dp and dr. A bit mushy text maybe, english is not my native language. Best regards // Morbide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windscar Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 Some say so, but honestly, in 1+ year I have never seem it actually happening. If this is true, can someone show a solid case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbide Posted March 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 So nobody? :'( Well visual snow will gain publicity in April, hopefully... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2muchmandy Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 iv had hppd a month, my visuals have improved like 60/70% id say, the paranoia has died and i get it once every couple days. no DR anymore really, DP, im a manic depressive iv always felt distant. im pretty confident il fully recover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gmo Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 My visuals have decrease SUBSTANTIALLY since this all started. It's gotten to the point now that my visuals aren't my worst symptom. At this point my biggest issue ismy depersonzlization and anxiety. If that would go away I feel like I could get back to living my life. Just have patience and don't mess with any drugs for a while and eventually things will start to clear up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbide Posted March 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 Your posts are really giving Me hope! Visual snow is by far my worst symtom, it might be strange to say but somehow i enjoy dp/dr a bit, i see it like i'm in a movie which i am in control of, well i don't mean that i am god but i don't want to screw things up in the "movie" just like in real life. It sounds trippy as hell but thats my way of coping with it, making it all a really real-life like movie! Maybe i should hit the bottle less this saturday night... Oh well, a good saturday night to all of you! And as Jimi Hendrix says: "There must be some kind of way out of here!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbide Posted March 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 Oh and by the way, i know that i am mentioning visuals as a general term but i mostly mean the visual snow, silly Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2muchmandy Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 if my visuals go away 100% which i think they should then i reckon il call myself cured. the paranoid and derealisation i get somes from me being scared the visuals will get worse. if they go away im golden, no need to shit in my pants anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbide Posted April 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 I agree to 100% My visuals got insane last night which led to a minor panic attack... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2muchmandy Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 What happened to them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbide Posted April 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 My visual snow/static became more intense than ever and i started to see geometrical patterns everywhere... I also started thinking about the bad trip that i am certain caused my hppd, i was very tired and i almost felt like i was tripping again and that caused the panic attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghormeh Sabzi Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 I have read cases, but it doesn't seem to happen as often as you would like. Dr. Abraham told me it happens for 50% of people, something I find hard to believe, but he's been researching HPPD for decades. I made a similar thread not long ago: http://hppdonline.com/index.php?/topic/736-does-hppd-often-resolve-itself-on-its-own/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alice-acid Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 i think its very possible it happens for 50 % of people because i didnt come on this site until i'd had it for like half a year or something a little more i think its hard to find out about hppd without a long time of researching and mines about 95% gone to be honest i hav bad days sometimes, if im hungover for example but even theyre 10000 times better than the best days when it first started. i think it'll slowly dissappear completely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 My visual snow was real bad for a little while I couldn't even see the color black. Stop worrying about your visuals and NEVER look for them. Now if I'm in a dark room they are almost always there but sometimes they aren't and they are definatly better than they were a month ago. Last night was the first time I slept with the light off in two months. Since I stopped looking for the visuals they have almost completly disapeared in just a few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbide Posted April 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 Thank you so much for all of your answers! I'm trying to not look for my visuals but it's quite hard since i see static whether i have my eyes open or closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Thank you so much for all of your answers! I'm trying to not look for my visuals but it's quite hard since i see static whether i have my eyes open or closed Yeah I know it's hard but it will get easier. Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbide Posted April 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Well would you look at that, i've started taking atarax and now i barely get any visual snow at all! Maybe anxiety triggers it i dunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2muchmandy Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 whats atarax? i wonder if im the only non medicated one on this site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gmo Posted April 3, 2012 Report Share Posted April 3, 2012 No I don't take meds either. I'm gonna try to just get by on supplements. I'm kinda sacared of meds potentially making it worse or causing other problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbide Posted April 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2012 Atarax is an allergy medecine/ antihistamine. Slightly anxiety reducing which is nice but you get tired as hell the day after... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbide Posted April 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2012 And in alot of countries is atarax an over the counter supplement, try it! I don't experience any bad changes in hpps, it makes the static more thinner And you can't build up tolerance so you can keep a low dose all the time, or so my doctor says... *suspicious* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VisualDude Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 Interesting that Atarax reduces serotonin (opposite of a SSRI) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbide Posted April 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 Well some experience a increase of visuals after using SRRI meds, i've read about a lot of people getting hppd-like symtoms after SSRI's too without earlier experiences of any drugs. Maybe too much serotonin damages receptors even more and meds that lo wers serotonin helps becouse we have a super high amount of serotonin constantly in our brains??? I have no idea about that though but i've read that GABA receptors have low activity in hppd brains and GABA calms the brains activity when needed and hppd'ers have abnormal activity in the visual cortex, therefor visual symtoms. Maybe our brains overanalyzes visual stimul (?) I don't know if anything that i'm saying is relevant though, pardon Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbide Posted April 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2012 Did anyone have visual snow pre-hppd? I remember seeing static on the sky when i was little, maybe hallucinogens've made it worse or maybe i just can't stop dwelling about it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2muchmandy Posted April 7, 2012 Report Share Posted April 7, 2012 i used to see static in the dark if i was hella hungover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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