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I've been on 1mg Klonopin for 5-6 years now and my psychiatrist gave me no choice but to star tapering me off, she cut my dose in half to 0.5 mg on day 6 I noticed pressure on my chest / anxiety for no apparent reason except withdrawal was starting and on day 8 I could no longer tolerate it and my VSS / HPPD came back full force and caused me even more destress as I had seemed to forget / not see in my face symptoms for years and now they are back, talk about flashbacks to the worst part of my life. So, I immediately increased my dose back to 1mg and my VSS /HPPD is still here a month later. I started doing research on day 7 and found out 50% taper was way too fast and dangerous and I no longer trusted my psychiatrist so I found the "Benzodiazepine Information Correlation" online and there was a Chemical Dependency Doctor here in Sacramento California and I went to see her and she is an angel and will work with me to slow taper off if that's what I want to do, and can take a year or two to taper somewhat comfortably in comparison to most taper programs , its patient led tapering program and she advised to me because of my withdrawal symptoms and VSS/ HPPD that I increase my dose to 1.25mg spread at .75mg in the morning and .5 in the evening to help me stabilize as I was feeling like I was dyeing and I felt like I was going to lose all the progress I've made in my life and I now have a family of my own worry about and take care of and I've been at that dose for two weeks now and my anxiety is stabilizing but my visuals remain the same except I just realized yesterday that I have stopped using my eyedrops that I have always used when I have VSS/HPPD symptoms because of extreme dry eyes I always used eye drops in the past when my symptoms were extreme before the Klonopin helped ad all of the sudden my eyes aren't dry anymore "hoping things will get better". while ok Klonopin for those 5-6 year my symptoms started to fade but they were still there but hardly noticeable to a point I just didn't care and I feel that if this Trama didn't just happen I would be able to stay on the Klonopin 1mg for the rest of my life because I used the same dose at the same time every day and never really noticed any kind of high from them after a couple months and I was not seeking to increase my dose because I felt I didn't need to because everything seemed to be manageable during that time . Klonopin helped me with VSS /HPPD , daily headaches and Migraines along with my agoraphobia, panic disorder, GAD, social phobia/anxiety. If I can stabilize and my visuals go back to hardly noticeable than I will do anything I can to stay on Klonopin because I have to be functional not only for me but for my Family. I had no symptoms or any bad side effects from Klonopin except some memory issues that were manageable and worth it for me.

I've been on 1mg Klonopin for 5 years now and my psychiatrist gave me no choice but to star tapering me off, she cut my dose in half to 0.5 mg on day 6 I noticed pressure on my chest / anxiety for no apparent reason except withdrawal was starting and on day 8 I could no longer tolerate it and my VSS / HPPD came back full force and caused me even more destress as I had seemed to forget / not see in my face symptoms for years and now they are back, talk about flashbacks to the worst part of my life. So, I immediately increased my dose back to 1mg and my VSS /HPPD is still here a month later. I started doing research on day 7 and found out 50% taper was way too fast and dangerous and I no longer trusted my psychiatrist so I found the "Benzodiazepine Information Correlation" online and there was a Chemical Dependency Doctor here in Sacramento California and I went to see her and she is an angel and will work with me to slow taper off if that's what I want to do, and can take a year or two to taper somewhat comfortably in comparison to most taper programs , its patient led tapering program and she advised to me because of my withdrawal symptoms and VSS/ HPPD that I increase my dose to 1.25mg spread at .75mg in the morning and .5 in the evening to help me stabilize as I was feeling like I was dyeing and I felt like I was going to lose all the progress I've made in my life and I now have a family of my own worry about and take care of and I've been at that dose for two weeks now and my anxiety is stabilizing but my visuals remain the same except I just realized yesterday that I have stopped using my eyedrops that I have always used when I have VSS/HPPD symptoms because of extreme dry eyes I always used eye drops in the past when my symptoms were extreme before the Klonopin helped ad all of the sudden my eyes aren't dry anymore "hoping things will get better". while ok Klonopin for those 5-6 year my symptoms started to fade but they were still there but hardly noticeable to a point I just didn't care and I feel that if this Trama didn't just happen I would be able to stay on the Klonopin 1mg for the rest of my life because I used the same dose at the same time every day and never really noticed any kind of high from them after a couple months and I was not seeking to increase my dose because I felt I didn't need to because everything seemed to be manageable during that time . Klonopin helped me with VSS /HPPD , daily headaches and Migraines along with my agoraphobia, panic disorder, GAD, social phobia/anxiety. If I can stabilize and my visuals go back to hardly noticeable than I will do anything I can to stay on Klonopin because I have to be functional not only for me but for my Family. I had no symptoms or any bad side effects from Klonopin except some memory issues that were manageable and worth it for me.

Hi Lysandre, how are you doing? I would really like to communicate with you on a few topics. ZOLOFT CAUSED ALL THIS>

Hello Sam I am kinda new here but I have been prescribed Depakote Sodium Valproate and have been taking it for two and a half weeks now .. I am curious about how long do you think it took for you to start noticing a change in visuals ... I have mostly Just trails, afterimages, some snow/static, auras around objects ? my dp/dr has faded before I started the Depakote .. Im just curious . Thanks and I am glad that you are able to manage and doing good .. Thanks again. note: I got this Hppd from after I quit pot and started Zoloft the second time and I stoped taking the Zoloft because I started to have these visuals...

So what has the Buspirone done for you besides make it ok for you to smoke weed again . do you have trails , afterimages photophobia dp/dr , Ghosting ?. How have they helped any of your symptoms? . I ask because I was thinking about trying it.

The only meds I have tried are , Gabapentin 300mg - for 1 a day for 2 days, it seemed to make floaters really dark and colors glow brighter and super tired and couldn't stay awake , Valium 2.5 mg - when hppd first started I started to take 5mg 2 times a day for 2 months as I felt like I needed it for super anxiety and when it would start to where off my vision would get even worse and scared the crap out of me like I was afraid I was going blind. Then I realized that I felt like I was having a memory problem like "what did I do last night" I was watching Star Trek on net flix and I couldn't remember if I watched that episode or not, it would take a few minutes then I would remember. So with that memory thing I stopped takeing so much Valium and got down to only taking less and less and now I only take it once a week or less and just recently I was suspicious that it was not helping my vision at all but making it worse for a few days .. It seems to make thing more cloudier and colors glow more and palinopsia alittle worse .. I have been taking the TC bio-3b-g 2-4 pills a day I sometimes forget the last 2 . I have noticed that it has helped a very little with depression and anxiety and alittle bit more energy during the day , I did feel these effects right away the next day . I do plan on taking the TC poll and commenting on how it has helped some .. I also just tried the tape on my glasses exercise and I noticed clearer / sharper vision the second I put my glasses on .. Thanks for your tips and reply its much appreciated.

I am wondering if anybody else has experienced Double vision only in their Peripheral and in both eyes 24/7 . I just getting very sick of this , If anybody has had their Ghosting treated with any meds let me know.. ] here is the rest of my symptoms Negative Afterimage Trails Photophobia halos colors , red , blue , pink , yellow seem to glow daily headache tension in neck, shoulders, under chin and tongue. dry eyes , hard eyeballs Tinnitus mild dp/dr slower frame rate brain fog bad fatigue all around feel like shit. vibrating feeling inside that matches the frame rate speed im shure I missed some but you get it . I feel like Im going crazy and Im supper depressed and have a lot of physical anxiety symtoms I also take 2.5mg valium maybe once a week and it makes thing look more cloudy and the colors get brighter ... so valium seems to make visual symptom's worse im not shure or Im in denial about it.. Ive had this for 6 months now dp/dr was a lot worse when this first started ....

Hello, lysandre, I also got Hppd from Zoloft and both have kinda similar stories , I was wondering how you are doing and if you have seen any improvements , I hope all is well .

yes Zoloft for 15 years and now Im 32 and I don't wont to try any antidepressants because I believe they will only make HPPD worse although I am very depressed I don't wont to risk it , and the Valium I only take 1-2 times a week so I don't get addicted, I was thinking about asking the doc for Klonopin to try and maybe it would help with the visuals? im not sure. I did try some of my dads gabapentin 300mg and it seemed to make my floaters more dark black and colors seemed to glow even more. maybe I do have a dopamine weakness. I will look in to that . I am looking forward to trying the Thiamine Cocarboxylase.

I just ordered (Bio-3B-G) from a ebay store $16.49 free shipping . I will get it next wed, March 23.

yep Zoloft and Valium only , I cant take the Zoloft anymore because it mad my visuals way worse , and I try to take the least amount of valium for anxiety. and I just got an ear infection and the doctor prescribed Ofloxacin ear drops and I used them last night and woke up this morning and my visuals worse, damn . I don't know if I should keep taking it but I have an ear infection and both my ears have been ringing for a week now 24/7 ...

In December I did take the Zoloft again 25mg for two days and it increased my visuals by 25% and so far it has been permanent . now all I take is 2.5 mg valium 1-2 times a week for really bad anxiety .

no im not on any drugs , I used to be a heavy weed smoker for 10 years then I cut back to like 2-3 pipe hits before bed for like 3 months. not even really strong weed but then I quit because it seemed to get more potent and increased my anxiety , that was 2 weeks before I noticed a vision problem, so I stopped the weed and started the Zoloft again about the same time , it probably was a mixture of both, Im not sure. my memory is so messed up now.

Hello Im new here and have never posted on a forum in my life. I guess I will start off with my story and what happened .. I have always had a depression and anxiety disorder for as long as I can remember when I was 15 I was put on Zoloft I also smoked pot for 10 years or so . when I was 25 I went on disability because my anxiety was way to hard to deal with. in mid may 2015 I tapered off Zoloft slowly and wow It was hell coming off but and I felt like I was a totally new person and wow my vision seemed to have gotten so much better I felt like I was in a new world, I stopped taking the Zoloft when my then soon to be wife went to Texas to visit her family for a year, so I thought it was a perfect time to come off the Zoloft, well she was gone for a month and I was feeling social like I never had felt that before and I opened a facebook account and of course the first person I looked for was her, and bam her profile pic was of her and another man , shit we were together for ten years, so my depression hit a all time high and the doc wanted me to go on Effexor but my insurance didn't cover it so I went back on the Zoloft in October 2015 and 2 weeks into it at 25mg I started to notice a change in my vision I was seeing a dark line on the left side of objects so I said "no way" the Zoloft is messing up my vision ,so I stopped taking it and was hoping that my vision would return back to good , well it continued to get worse, I then started to get sensitive to light and that dark line on the left side of things was getting worse and turned into a ghost image like seeing double but with each eye , then I started to notice trailing vision , negative after images , slight snow vision , glowing colors , shaking and blurred vision . and I could not stay awake for the life of me and I feel like im seeing threw video cameras and I have brain fog I feel like I am not in my own body sometime and when I look at the ground when im walking It looks like im walking on a round globe kinda.... light colored parts of peaples faces seem to pop out at me and the ghost image makes everyone look like they have three eyes. wtf this is crazy ,... now I have tinnitus , this has been going on 3 1/2 months now and Ive had cat and mri scans and blood test and all have come up clean . my doctor said I would have to be on drugs to be having these symtoms.