u/Appropriate_Sentence

Quit cold turkey after cutting back for a while, rough as fuck but nothing I couldn’t handle, on day 4 of that. As a treat? I guess? I had a few hits of a cigarette and I didn’t realise how much the derealisation had lifted until I inhaled that fucking smoke, immediate brain fog, shaky vision, heart racing and just the overall sensation of “I’m not here” hit like a truck.

I got a headache, I felt sick, it was horrible. I’m not doing that again that’s for sure. If you can, cut back or even quit nicotine, do it. Just try because watching my base line come back after a few drags showed me just how bad I had been for so long and hardly realised, withdrawals are rough, but nothing compared to the clarity

Does anyone have any idea if muscle mass effects the IIH the same as fat?

After losing a lot of fat, my symptoms have definitely improved, and I’m hoping to gain more muscle too in future for my health, and I’ve really found a love for fitness recently.

But obviously I’d love to go into remission, or some sort of very low symptom state that’s self sustainable without diamox, I can’t keep taking this shit it’s agonising. So if I have to lose out on body building I’ll be devastated, but so be it. I was on 2000mg at 120kg, now on 250mg at 85kg