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Haven't heard this mentioned. Anyone tried it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortioxetine Sounds interesting to me. What do you think?

Well... my worst fears in regards to this crap have been realized. My Lexapro stopped working. How I came to this is a long story but basically I got switched to a generic equivalent and started having paradoxical reactions to it. Like weird side effects.... amping up my HPPD and DP/DR symptoms. I switched back to the name brand and started feeling better immediately despite the fact I was paying $160 a month for my meds. Then that started giving me the same issues. 8/ I began weaning off of it a couple of months ago. It has been a mix of feeling better not having the effects of taking the meds and having withdrawal symptoms so it's been a constant balancing act. Basically I went from 10mg a day for like 10 years to 7.5 mgs a day for like 5. Then 5 was too much... now I'm taking 2.5 mgs a day and feeling pretty horrible the last few days or so. At first I was doing so much better I thought all my issues were solved... at least enough to get my shit together to go back to school and possibly do the family thing, but shit is getting pretty grim now. I think my brain and the blood levels are catching up with me. My worst fear is that I won't be able to deal and have to quit my job. I feel pretty depressed now... intensity varies by the day but I'm having some pretty bad issues perceptually and mood wise. The only thing that's gotten better is my cognition. Anyone else been through this? I think my brain is wired for this stuff and now it's hitting the fan. I pray to god I don't have to go back into the fray and try and find something that works. It took almost 10 years to find one that worked last time and stabilize on it. Any feedback would be appreciated, even if it's just a "keep your head up" type comment. I'm pretty freaked out. Thanks.

Just bought NALT on the Internet because people tell than this helps greatly anxiety and lack of motivation. It is also supposed to give you the ability to think more clearly and in some case to help with social anxiety. So I decided to give it a shot. I will keep you informed of the effects on this thread as soon as I get it at home.

Hello All. Is anyone on wellbutrin? I am done with anafranail, this doesnt work, and makes hppd WORSE! (do not take) The next med i am going to try is wellbutrin, my psych told me that wellbutrin will have a speedy effect. Is this the real amphetamine high/speedy feeling? Or is it any diffirent. Thanks in advance!

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Hey there! Im a 25 year old male that have been suffering from mild hppd for about 5-6 months now, and my symptoms keep getting both better and worse but also changing characteristicts. I suffer primarily from starbursting of friggin anoying proportions i also have tracers wich tend to be most visiable against certain contrasts such as black color moving accros white surfaces and so on. i also have some weird tinnitus episodes but they have diminished these last few months. If its of any concern.. i obtained this curse from some poision-drug called DOC witch had me tripping for 60+ hours. And probobly from some other stupid hallucinogen i was experimenting with.(edit some more symptoms: i sometimes see weird floaters and text on computer screens sometimes moves like its floating on water) Anyways heres my question . (This is hard to explain) Does anyone else with starbursting?, experience difference in the colours of the lights? For me when i stop at a trafik light. It goes from red-orange-green. Looking at the red light, it kind of doubles allitle and gives quite a burst, spreading out from the 2 seperate round lights intertwineing each other. When it shifts to orange the starburst is "Normal" and just gives its bright round lazers of light. Heres the interesting part. When it switches to green.. the light not only doubles but breaks into 5 or 6 seperate lightsourcers that intertwine each other but each gives its own starburst.. resulting in a flare of lights.. If you can imagine the green light for pedestrians "a walking green man".. For me this lttle green man splits up in 5 or 6/doubles resulting in something that looks like a christmas tree, Unless im realy close to it and i dont see "double or quadruple". Blue lights from police cars also behave like green. split up and burst on its own. Basicly red green and blue suck . Havent been able to get ahold of klonopin to see if it alevates it yet but im on the lookout.. Be safe and thanks for all the stories i have been reading here..

http://hppdonline.com/index.php?/files/file/73-%7B?%7D/ Alright, here you are.

Good to see you have arrived at the location ok. Stay strong and prepare your self for whatever Wednesday brings. Despite most of this tread becoming a heated debate, there are many of us rooting for you and hope you find what you're searching for. Keep us posted and Skype me when you can. Jim

How did I contradict myself?

I can see both sides of the argument but I would think a little sensitivity is in order when dealing with this stuff... I'd do just about anything to live a normal life again.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/med-tech/this-app-trains-you-to-see-farther-16506910 Nothing to do with HPPD, but that hit the first page of Reddit promising to improve your vision and looks really legit. Worth a try?

May sound weird and just the stuff you don't want in your system if you have hppd but it has some interesting effects. It has been used for depression and can cure depression for about a month after a single use. If anyone knows more about it post it, just thought this was interesting.

Always drink 1 or 2 Mountain Dews a day but everything else in my diet is healthy. Eat a lot of fruits mostly mangos and bananas and consume a LOT of steak. And I drink a decent amount of milk

YEs I think I have HPPD, I do not take any hallucinogens, I consider myself healthy, but months ago I became hypochondriac and I'm very anxious now, all this problems started when I saw floaters for the first time looking at sky

I might have to look into Headspace. I think an EEG and a sleep study would serve me well, especially as I plan on undertaking extensive Neurofeedback through a NeurOptimal practitioner. My experiences with neurologists have been terrible thus far. Way back when I first started experiencing HPPD (but was unaware it existed and thought I was having occipital migraines+panic attacks) I had scans of my head taken, eye examinations, etc. I recently went to a neurologist out of the University of Chicago who was supposedly one of the best in the field - he told me nothing is wrong with my scans and I probably suffer from post concussive syndrome and he doesn't believe even extensive drug use would cause the odd, extremely severe symptoms I experience. I then brought up things like LLLT and CES and he was completely unaware as to what they were and told me not to extrapolate results from studies and apply them to myself, to which I thought, "aren't you doing the same things for the drugs you'd willingly say I need to ingest?" It doesn't help that my general practitioner doesn't believe it's post concussive syndrome because I wouldn't have gotten symptoms like 2 years after my concussion(s). In my opinion, anyone who is not experienced with HPPD or co-morbid disorders like DP/DR or perhaps some personality disorders will probably brush it off as something else. As of late I've been thinking of writing a letter to both Dr. Abraham and Oliver Sacks, just to see if they'd even respond and if so what they think.

MDMA

I can't help you with etizolam, but I had frequent problems as you had when it was the moment to sleep. I was on my bed and felt like I was floating, sometimes I had the feeling that I was going at 150km/h spinning around, other times were panic attacks... That sucked. I began to take two MagneB6 pills before to sleep and I never had these problems again... Now I experiment sleep paralysis (who are really scary, seriously I reconsidered my opinion on the succubs etc...) and out of body experiences when I drink alcohol, which is what I do since 2 days. After tonight I will stop for some months. Hope you'll find what you need, and try magnesium...

Vision? Lol, I had static for a month or two. visual disturbances really arent the worst of it. Anxiety and DP/DR is the hard stuff. If you are only dealing with visuals I'd say you dont have the worst end of it all, so be glad about that. But maybe you aren't noticed the effects of anxiety vs visual snow.

trailing is one of the symptoms i started to notice later on, about 4-5month in. its not severe as in it fades in less than a second but anything that moves basically has trails if i focus on it through my peripheral vision. so even my hand will produce trails 100% of the time.

I got it done because I was generally interested to see what came up, and this did. From 23andMe if anyone is interested. Sinemet is probably my next shot depending how my Keppra trial goes. I am convinced my HPPD is particularly dopaminergic. I respond very well to Modafinil.

Idk about the depletion of dopamine receptors, I don't believe that they would because they don't release much at all from nicotine. I've heard that it can increase anxiety, obviously because its a stimulant. I know for a fact though that it helps me get through the day, there's nothing better then waking up and having you first cig of the day. Idk if this is true but I've heard that if you've smoked and then use an e cig that overtime it creates a film of e liquid on you lungs. And that this film of e liquid helps to dissolve and "loosen" the tobacco tar on your lungs, therefore cleaning your lungs.

BUMP!

Pretty good. I still remember almost everything during that time, and my memory now is sharp. I did notice focusing and problem solving was difficult during the height of my hppd, but memory never really took a hit. Hope that helps

Well, it worked for you..! One question - how's your memory and general cognitive abilities?

Finally something new. Since i needed to make myself a Guine Pig for Keppra and Sinemet, I am glad that someone is taking over. I'll follow this with big interest. Hoping for something great improvments in meds. Current regime works but its sooo many pills to take each day.

Research doesn't quite work like that; scientists require a sample of a population, not just one individual. A sample size below 7 is statistically worthless. Also you wouldn't have to donate your whole brain, an MRI study or a small tissue sample would be enough, but I guess the latter is just as big an investment as your suggestion is anyway.

About time for a thread like this. I took about 4 grams of shrooms (twice as much as you should on your first time) in early january. Before that all I had done was drink and smoke weed a few times. I tripped really hard, I was in a completely diferent dimension talking to people who don't exist, and time had no meaning. At one point I became really scared that I wasn't going to come back and began freaking out trying to physicaly claw my way back into this world while my eyes were closed. Still the next morning I was fine and I looked at the trip in a positive way. Three weeks later I smoked a little and the night after that I drank a little. The night after the night I drank I woke up from a really messed up dream shaking with really bad anxiety. For the next week I had horrible anxiety and sleep issues (hynagogic hallucinations and such) but no other symptoms. After a week it went away but then a few days later it came back with all that stuff plus 24/7 visual snow and some after-images and some derelization. The next two months were hell but then things started to improve. After 4 months I was feeling a lot better and could ignore HPPD pretty easily, after 6 months I was basically back to normal. It's been almost 7 months now and I still have some very minor symptoms. I am more anxious/moody/prone to depression than I was prior to HPPD but its still improving and I'm confident that these symptoms will completely dissapear soon. In certain lightings I stilll get visual snow but its so minor that if it had never been worse I would think it was just a normal thing that everyone had. Ocasionally I'll get a random visual (like an afterimage or something weirder), but its getting increasingly more rare and honestly might also be normal. I dream vivid dreams all night long it seeems now but thats not really a bad thing. I still have some Hypnagogia issues, I kinda start dreaming while I'm still awake and had a little sleep paralysys a week ago (I thought i was dead), its really hard to explain but its not a problem as long as it doesn't get worse. I also get CEV when I'm trying to sleep sometimes but those are fun now that they aren't there all the time. I didn't use any prescriptions to get to this point, just eating healthy, taking vitamins, exercising, and most importatly ignoring my symptoms and believing that they will go away. Good Luck!

You see the idea of reuptake is on a presynaptic side. If you inhibit that action, you get more serotonin in the synapse that will hang around and bind themselves post-synaptically.