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The more you do any substance (even ones like caffine, alcohol, nicotine etc.) it will make your hppd worse. Like fante said steer clear of all substances it will do nothing but harm to you, besides when i stopped all drugs outright i learned to appreciate life a lot more, and started enjoying the sober "normal" feeling a lot more then anything a drug could do. Just focus on staying healthy and drug free and your body and mind will thank you for it.

That's great drugs have enabled you to see the world differently but if you don't stop them now you might be that way permanently! Only you can decide what's best for yourself in the longrun but I'd urge you to at least give yourself a break for a while to see if your symptoms persist and to see how much you enjoy it. If you think life is pleasurable with 24-7 visual snow, patterns, headaches, etc., then by all means continue doing drugs. If not, then you might want to steer clear of the drug scene until you're completely healthy, or better yet, forever! You only get one life and one body. You might want to think twice before potentially damaging both forever!

Welcome. I'm new here as well and I'm amazed at the abundance of information available in this forum. I'm no expert on hppd and didn't even realize it had a name until recently. You're still having visual issues like visual snow and colors, is that correct? Are they present all the time? I understand that psychedelics can teach us many things. However, there are some of us, like me, who end up with symptoms that we experience every waking moment. When I started using psychedelics over 40 years ago I thought they were some sort of miracle and shaped the way I experience existence in positive ways. However, I see visual patterns almost all of the time and have for decades. I dosed heavily for about six years. I'm not a doctor so I won't dispense any medical advice. The advice I would give is to stay sober for a while to see if the symptoms go away. If they don't please understand it might get much worse if you continue using. Also, if you do have hppd, don't panic! Even if you have this condition, it's possible to have a wonderful and productive life. I hope your surgery to remove your cyst goes well.

Because any structural changes in HPPD (if they even exist) are too small to see with the resolving power of an MRI, which cannot image or even make any indirect suggestions at the level of individual neurons, other cells or microstructures, which you would think might be more pertinent. An MRI can show atrophy/lesions if they are substantive enough to appear on a scan, but keep in mind practitioners assessing the images from the scan are known to occasionally miss something pertinent e.g. small tumours - this gives you an idea of the limitations of an MRI scan. If HPPD has caused physical damage or changes in the brain then those are too small to see with an MRI.