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Wanted to bring this back and say this has been an amazing supplement for me. Pretty much the only one that has worked I started taking half a tea spoon of magnesium citrate in powder form on my lunch break 3-5 times a week about 5 months ago. After just a couple of weeks i felt relaxed and as i would normally have a 'bad day' at least for a couple hours every few days I found they had stopped. Even on a grey weather day after not getting much sleep I was feeling fine, these days would normally be hell for me and I would know I was going to have a bad day just looking at the weather report. Since taking it I would say I haven't had a bad day at all and the longest I have anxiety thinking about it would be max 30min in a day maybe once or twice a week. It has really made me stop looking for my visuals and calmed me so much. I would also say there has been at least a 50% reduction in visuals, 80% in anxiety and even a 25% reduction in brain fog and other brain issues. I think other people if they haven't tried this really need to

Blue field entoptic phenomenon is my main visual symptoms. I developed other symptoms straight away after a trip such as dr/dp, brain fog and memory problems first but after about 3 months of these my 'sparks' started. I'd say if you had other symptoms as well and you have had a trip you'd most likely have hppd. Im sure you've also found by now sun glasses do a lot to reduce the sparks Hope this helps. Try not to dwell on it too much as it is a natural thing to see and everyone can see it if they try. Mine has reduced over the years. Use to see it inside all the time on white walls where this has almost gone now unless they have every bright direct sunlight

I find this my worst symptom. It use to be much worse then what it is now but its still there for 7 hole years now. When I stop at red lights I try to focus on the red light then a mark or something on my windscreen. I keep doing this and try to hold focus for a couple seconds on each one. Its something I'm trying to see if it'll help

I know just from talking to my friends that it seem a few people mite have mild visual symptoms. None of them know I have HPPD as i try to keep quite about it. One time when I was out with one of my mates there was this bright blue LED sign. To me it was the same old story of halos all around it and just not being able to focus on it. My mate mentioned how hard it was to focus on it. Another time I was told a friend at the movies said he was going to have to leave if the bright blue screen didn't stop soon as it was giving him visuals. Another time one of my friends was telling me if she had coke the next day she would see sparks in the sky. All are drug users. Maybe these people don't worry about it too much so it doesn't effect them as much?

I'll tell you about my experience with taking drugs and having HPPD and let you decide I got HPPD coming up to 7 years ago. I like you tried to stop my drug use but thought stuff it as I didn't seem to see much improvement and didn't feel a huge increase in symptoms just getting on it every couple of months and drinking on the weekends. This began to get worse and eventually it was ecstasy, speed or what ever stimulant I could find every weekend if not every friday and saturday night and smoking weed 3 to 4 times a week. I remember at my worst I had been to the movies one weekend and the next week I couldn't remember being there as I was so fried. I cut it out heaps and went back to just taking drugs every couple of months sometimes trying to quit for about 3 months then thinking fuck it can't feel any thing I'll just have a couple of lines this weekend. I have now been clean for 10 months, the longest time since I got HPPD. I have only just started to feel my brain clearing up as I've given it a decent chance to repair its self. I'm optimistic that it will go away in a couple of years but I still know there's a good chance I'm stuck with it for life. If you do chose to keep using drugs watch you symptoms more then what I did and be really careful. Best of luck man! P.S I still drink coffee and alcohol in moderation. As you said whats the point in living if you don't enjoy it

I think mine had something to do with depression leading up to the trips. I smashed some a hole lot of x one night and then had the worst come down. This was my first real come down and just felt like I had fried my brain for ever. This then lead me to depression for a few the next few months and not being able to cope with day to day dramas. While I was coping with this I had 3 trips over 4 weekends on some srooms, bang hppd for almost 6 years now

Life goes on if you want it to. I've hardly been on this site the last few months as I'm travelling threw Canada at the moment. Going to be going around the world for the next year plus maybe longer. I've made new friends, put HPPD to the back of my mind, becoming more social and maybe even feeling less DR. Heres a photo from the Aruas over Banff, Canada with some of my new mates. I can't seem to get the URL to work so ill link it to my flickr account. Also a way of showing my other hobbies of photography and skateboarding http://www.flickr.co...arr/7111569475/ http://www.flickr.co.../tomphotogbarr/

Yeah man i've been thinking the same thing recently. I have been reading a lot of the dpselfhelp forum and have found the symptoms relate to me. I don't get massive visuals and my main problem is DR. I was thinking maybe i only have DR but if it was caused by srooms dose that mean i have HPPD as well? Im not sure if its going to improve our odds of recovery as they all seem to be searching for the holy grail of medicine as well.

I don't pre drink heavy if I'm going out now. Before i'd try to knock back half a bottle of vodka or 8 to 10 beers before i went out. Now i'll bring 1 or 2 beers to a friends house. Then when i go out i don't drink shots or mixed drinks and stick to beer. I also just try to drink them nice and slow. I'm actually enjoying it more not get shit faced. I wake up and don't feel like crap. I can remember to my best ability with this hppd all the dumb things everyone els did and know i didn't do any thing embarrassing. So far too i am feeling much better. Only trouble I'm going to have is I'm going over seas soon and will have no job for a very long time to keep thing in order

I don't get the cartoon look too much its more that every thing just looks our of focus. I get things coming in and out of focus. The worst for this is red lights for some reason. Not so much red traffic lights but more say a alarm clock screen that has the time. It just goes in and out and bounces around but it always seem worse with red lights. Also things like a grass field the hole thing shimmers and just starts to turn into a green blob almost. Like a lot of our troubles its hard to explain. After reading the dp/dr forum they seem to have a lot of problems with similar things.

I have the same problem about being in a group. Even when there close friends and I'm having a drink with them I'm still struggling to join the conversation. I find I'm fine one on one but then any more then 4 other people and i hate it. I feel I'm going to say some thing stupid so i sit there being boring instead. I hate attention on me as well even if its good. All this feels like its come up just in the last couple of years as my hppd as become less

Some times I do get pissed off i got mine so easily. I have the same problem of wanting to keep going though. Just at a music festival or a good gig. If i could just pop a pill once every couple of months. Even try LSD just once to see what its really like. In the end though nothing good comes from drugs and I'm better off cleaning my self up now before I do some thing worse. I only have my self to blame for my situation. I'd find it so much harder to accept if I was in visuals position and someone els gave it to me. (guessing by what you said sounded like someones mistake)

I had ecstasy about twice and smoked weed maybe 20 or so times. I then had srooms 3 weekends in a row and BANG 3rd trip i was seeing static that night when i was coming off it. Next day it was dp. With in a month or 2 it was feeling brain dead.

Best of luck man i hope he has some good information for you. I wish I could fly half way across the country to see him, instead i've got to go to the other side of the world haha. I am going travelling around canada and the states real soon so i was thinking i may was well see him when i have the chance. I'd like to know as well how other people have found there visits with him too. I'd like to cure mine with out drugs for now as i feel i haven't given it 100% so maybe if he can give me light on that. Would be worth it? Sorry i can't help you on this one. Sound like your hppd has been hell man. I hope Dr Abraham can help you out.

I know the feeling. Every thing use to feel easy is now some thing i have to try at. At the moment I'm taking the standard 2 multi vitamins, 4 fish oil caps and 1500mg of NAC a day. There was also the other ones Visual got me onto which was 5000 mcg of B12, 1200 mg GPC, 3000 mg MSM. This is meant to help with nerve growth. He also said to take it 3 days on 2 weeks off. So far NAC has helped the most but I feel these other ones need a lot longer time to help repair the damage that has been done. I would say I have improved about 20% so far. It may also be that i have cut down the amount of alcohol i was drinking.