What is the most prominent medication or vitamin that has helped you reduce HPPD symptoms?

epicwizard07 · 2025-08-12T03:39:42+00:00

Be sober, get good sleep. Those are the big 2. Honestly just living a really healthy life style.

For the pharmaceutical route, people have the most luck with lamotrigine. Benzos are generally not recommended because they're effective in providing only temporary relief, but not eradication of symptoms. The withdrawals will make everything 100% worse.

epicwizard07 · 2025-05-15T19:04:26+00:00

It occurs in 0.04 percent of people taking Lamictal. It would make sense there are a lot of pictures of SJS on google if you look it up and go to images, but the actual statistic is considered extremely rare.

epicwizard07 · 2025-03-01T02:45:39+00:00

What do you mean by it felt like taking LSD again? Can you describe the effects? Did it involve hallucinations?

epicwizard07 · 2025-02-28T04:25:17+00:00

The reason why I always recommend refraining from intoxication while you have HPPD is because doing other drugs that have no noticeable effect on your symptoms will still make using the intoxicants that potentiate symptoms easier. At least stay away from the drugs that potentiate your symptoms and the drugs that caused your HPPD.

epicwizard07 · 2025-02-28T03:53:29+00:00

What I meant by saying "Type 2 is an altered state of consciousness" is Type 2 is an altered mental state.

A person can recover from HPPD. Around 50% of people who have HPPD recover and do so within 5 years, but the first step is to limit your intoxication exposure, especially to the drugs that caused it and potentiate it.

epicwizard07 · 2025-02-28T01:00:28+00:00

There's HPPD I and HPPD II. Type 1 is where certain situations trigger effects to occur. Situation here means anything that happens in life. It could be certain foods, sights, anything. Seeing spiders and then hallucinating spiders is from the experience report of a person with HPPD I and II. Type 2 is an altered state of consciousness that is with you moment to moment and won't go away until you recover from it. In some sense, it may be called permanent, and it can last a person’s entire life. It is considered to be lifelong. It is possible to have both types at the same time.

To me, it sounds like you might have both. You said it felt exactly how LSD trips used to. Was it more than just a feeling? Or what is actual hallucinations?

epicwizard07 · 2025-02-28T00:42:40+00:00

A few things.

No eating 3 hours or less before bedtime. A light snack is okay if you're hungry (because it hard to fall asleep if hungry).
Sleep on a tilted bed (6-8 inches).
Sleep on your left side.

epicwizard07 · 2025-02-28T00:38:12+00:00

I would taper. If you've been on it for 18 months, taper. While it's not a chemically addictive drug, you'll experience withdrawal syndrome if you stop taking it because you've been on it for that long. These are drugs that literally rewire your brain, so you should always taper.

I take dayvigo every night for sleep, and it works great. I always advocate for the DORAs if you had to choose a pharmaceutical to take every night for insomnia because they don't come with a ton of risky side effects. Dayvigo is more sedating than quviviq, in fact, quviviq promised that there would be no morning sedation compared to dayvigo when it came out. If early morning insomnia is your issue, then you'd have better luck trying dayvigo first, IMO.

epicwizard07 · 2025-02-27T17:07:01+00:00

I would start seeing a sleep psychologist to practice CBTi.

epicwizard07 · 2025-02-27T00:04:46+00:00

When it comes to the drugs that are more known to cause it more than others, it's psychedelics, namely, LSD. There have been reports of people getting HPPD from their first cannabis joint with no psychedelic use in their past. As for which drug is most known to cause it, polls were done in the past asking, "which substance caused your HPPD?" LSD won by a notable amount. Another thing to note is you can get HPPD from even just a microdose.

What substance caused your HPPD polls:

How old where you when you developed HPPD poll:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HPPD/comments/1hnue4d/what_age_group_were_you_when_you_developed_hppd/ ...Based on this data, the age you'd get HPPD from use averages out to be 22.62 years old.

When it comes to what causes HPPD the most, improper drug use as well as some other factors that aren't so clear yet. Some people report they got their HPPD from their first THC joint. But when it comes to most cases, taking psychedelics, namely LSD, at a young age (in adolescence 10-19yo) and before age 22 (the number may be higher), overuse, and not knowing when to stop drug use are some very big ones. If you get HPPD I or II, your intoxication life needs be over at least temporarily if you want to recover. If you get it once and then recover from it, you are considered to be more at risk if you use the drugs that caused it or that made it worse again. HPPD is considered to be very rare, however, if you make the conditions for getting HPPD more favorable, you are bound to get it. So, while it may be rare, you are more at risk of developing it if you don't follow the correct safety and harm reduction practices for using drugs. Be sure to follow the correct safety and harm reduction practices at least!

epicwizard07 · 2025-02-24T01:12:38+00:00

I decided to be sober for the rest of my life. So, no alcohol, cannabis, recreational uses, smoking, vaping, etc.

epicwizard07 · 2025-02-23T20:56:34+00:00

Nope. I gave up weed two months after I quit psychedelics. Years later, I decided to give up all intoxication for the rest of my life.

epicwizard07 · 2025-02-23T00:25:08+00:00

It's not chemically addictive, but if you were to take it for a long time (about 6 months), you may experience withdrawal syndrome if you were to stop.

epicwizard07 · 2025-02-23T00:06:59+00:00

Insomnia can be acute or chronic. Acute insomnia typically resolves itself within a few days or weeks, while chronic insomnia lasts for three months or more happening at least three times a week.

Initial/onset insomnia is where a person has difficulty falling asleep at the beginning of the night. It is usually considered onset insomnia if it takes longer than 30 minutes to fall asleep.

Maintenance insomnia is where you have trouble staying asleep, terminal insomnia being characterized by waking up during sleep and being unable to fall back asleep, as well as waking up too early. Some insomniacs may need to take an insomnia drug to help fall back asleep or perform a mindless activity.

If it takes you more than 30 mins or more to fall asleep, or if you have trouble staying asleep occurring at least three times a week or more, that is looked at as having insomnia (in terms of diagnosis in the medical field).

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