Dante500

Yeah, I'm sorry, I may sound little over the top but I have spent a large amount of yesterday and today reading your stories and I was in such a shock... I think I felt really glad that I found a good reason not to take acid and just wanted to share my thoughts with you guys. As I said, I know that the possibility is low but what if? I'm not going to risk it, and ofcourse I'll also stay away from MDMA. Besides, even if I decided to take acid after this wouldn't it result in a horribly bad trip? I mean, i wouldnt be able to stop thinking about the possibility of developing HPPD, I would only get paranoid.

Hi all, first of all I wanted to say that I don't have HPPD. The reason why i created this topic is to thank you all for preventing me from taking LSD. Recently my room mate and a good friend brought 4 tabs of LSD from work. We both smoke weed pretty regularly (twice a week or so) at our apartment, I've also tried MDMA twice and that's it when it comes to drugs. During one of those smoke sessions we started to talk about other drugs we might want to try some time. We both agreed that LSD was the most interesting of the lot but we did not even contemplate taking it, just a casual talk. Then one day (about 3 weeks after) my friend returns home from work and shows me those 4 tabs and says that since we both were so interested in trying this he bought some from a guy at his work who knows a guy etc. We did not take them (thank God). He was eager to take them the same day but I convinced him that we should get to know more about the effect and to prepare better. I started researching LSD on the internet the next day while I was at work and stumbled upon the HPPD term and eventually these forums. I was genuinely shocked and terrified reading all your stories. I can somewhat relate to you guys because i have very mild tinnitus since 2009 (I'm now 100% habituated) resulting from loud noise exposure at a concert and the first few months were hell on earth. I know that this is only a fracture of what you guys have. The things you all have to go through on daily basis are horrific and made me somewhat depressed for the rest of the day because I was constantly thinking about your condition and that I might end up like that if i take that LSD. Needless to say, when I came back home (my mate was still at work) I flushed those tabs in the toilet. I did not want to risk confronting my friend about this because he was so eager to take those (we were supposed to take one each and have the other two for later) that he might not have listened to me and take one anyway. He was pissed off when he learned about what I did but thanked me after hours of explanation. I decided not to take anything except MJ and alcohol for the rest of my life. I am glad i found this forums because otherwise I'm sure I would take it and God only knows what would have happened. I know the risk is low but I'm not willing to take even that risk. I sincerely did not know that things like HPPD, derealization/depersonalization, anxiety and all kinds of visual abnormalities can heppen after taking hallucinogens. I will advise anyone against taking shrooms and LSD for the rest of my life. Stay strong guys. I hope that each and every one of you recovers from this as fast as possible. You all have my sincere sympathy. Thank you for showing me the right way.