r/HPPD

Hasn’t gotten any better I don’t know how you guys do it this shit has ruined my life 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Because like im only 16 and ive heard here this can last years or tens of years
And im on day 19 and i felt 2hours straight of dejavu and i only went outside to other town, and i have all the symptomps and i know i shouldnt think about it but its so hard and i dont think i can live like this i dont want to look to my life before and after i took that LSD 😭😭😭
( i took 200mcg and had 30 sec ego death and panicked i dont have brain for this and i have fear of death and also some personality disorder and smoked half of joint on day 3 )
I will go to doctor as fast as i can now i dont care my dad will know it, i wanna be okay its just still same everyday

Or should i be happy ? Should i enjoy it ? Should i think is it making me smarter ? I dont have a single fucking clueeee what to think im still faded and trippin

So i dont want to bullcrap this sub but on other hand its dead, but my question and probably last and its for people who recovered from hppd, do you feel like before you had the hppd? Completly sober or do you still have some hppd symptomps ( even when they are minor )

And another question is if vaping nic is worseing your hppd or no, thats a big one, i didnt hit it like week now and i just keep thinking if im doing good or nah ( like if it will help me recover faster)

I’ve been thinking, and please don’t tell me not to ask about everything. The first improvement was yesterday after 25 days, but today it still feels the same again. Doesn’t HPPD go away sooner depending on how serious the thing that caused it was? In my case it was 200mcg of 1cP-LSD, so wouldn’t that be different compared to someone who took like 400mcg or more? Would their HPPD last longer because of that? What do you think?

and anotha question is if i should leave the vape for more months because it was now 26 days without vaping and its killing meeee and when the symptomps are same i think i will just fuck it and start vaping (nic) again but i dont know if it will make my hppd more pernament or how tf this works omg

i got vss/hppd 5+ yrs ago from taking molly and then a pill of trazodone 2 weeks later

i’ve struggled w insomnia since taking the molly (hence trying trazodone), but the sleep got better after 2 months and then i was mostly able to manage 8hrs of sleep through the years, i would just always wake up once or twice throughout the night

however since december it’s been a lot worse. i wake up so many times during the night and am lucky if i can manage 6hrs of sleep. i cannot physically sleep more than that unless sleep deprived. i’ve tried cbt-i, hydroxyzine, amitriptyline 10mg, bromazolam, melatonin, zopiclone - nothing really helps.

i want to try seroquel or mirtazipine but given trazodone played a part in me developing this im scared to use anything ssri related for sleep. i mean at least the amitriptyline didnt worsen anything when i tried it at a low dose, but im scared to try anything else

does anyone have experience w sleep drugs and can advise me?

Do you also have constant sounds in your head like ringing or similar to electricity 24/7 with HPPD?

Do you feel like its only visual? Cause I feel like my whole brain works differently now. Like more easily irritated to stimuls and even more disconnected from reality which I was even before lsd use

so i don’t know exactly where to start, but i’ve been doing acid since i was 14 and im 20 now. i’ve done a lot of dxm and dph in the past, i’ve slowed down on doing dph though. i have been doing dxm every now and then just because it’s all i have to get, i’ve tried a lot of psychs too like, 2-cb, 2-cb-fly, 25-b-nboh, 25-e-nboh, 4-ho-mipt, salvia, dmt, lsd, nbomes, and shrooms. anyways to get to the point i’ve done too many drugs during my teenage years and since i’ve kinda slowed down, i’ve noticed it still feels like im tripping every day. some days it’s worse some days it’s not. but i’m just wondering if it’ll ever go away or should i go to a doctor for this to get diagnosed this. i just want to feel normal, so much people i know don’t understand and never will.

Slow thinking, memory loss, feeling dumber than before HPPD, ive read somethin bout pernament brain damage but i think that was only when you take an absurd amount of something ( lsd or shrooms fo example)

Cuz im on day 20 and feel so pointless and stupid

This is how I got it.

So I got pretty manageable yet persistent HPPD for 10+ years now, I added a little breakdown of my “recovery” journey further down for those interested.

I’ve not taken any drugs for about 9ish years now and I’ve been on the journey to get an ADHD diagnosis for the last years and now got my first prescription meds (Elvanse / Lisdexamphetamine).

So I already know that it will most likely increase my HPPD symptoms since it increases brain activity, but my much bigger fear is that I take it once and it will lead to all of my symptoms getting much worse and even persist being worse even when I stopped. I know nobody can advise me what to do, but I’m just genuinely so scared and now I am overthinking if my ADHD symptoms are even worth the risk etc. I would start with the lowest possible dose of 10mg but idk honestly.

Even though my symptoms persisted, I still feel it got better and better the longer I stayed abstinent from drugs and now I’m just scared that I will have a fully blown relapse from just one pill.

How was that for other people? Did you feel like it only made your symptoms worse while the Meds were doing their thing and after they stopped, you went back to normal? Or did you experience an increase in your symptoms even after stopping the meds?

Looking for experiences from others, happy to read. Thank you!

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Here is a breakdown of my recovery journey, it doesn’t involve any supplements as I honestly do not believe there is anything out there that can cure HPPD (for me - but keep in mind everybody is different! Happy for those that took some and it helped!)

- basically a lot of of the advice from the sub here; stay absolutely away from any drugs (alcohol and caffeine works for me, but I can definitely tell a difference after I had a lot of coffee) - for me this is one of the most important pillars of the therapy. You need to get your neurotransmitters and receptors some rest.

- get enough high quality sleep (sleep deprivation makes my symptoms spike)

- of course working out and have a good nutrition is always beneficial but to be honest I didn’t feel like it made a lot of difference coming from a pretty healthy lifestyle already

- the most important one and the one thing that I changed that made the biggest impact on my HPPD in the last year: ACCEPTANCE and ignoring/living with it. I know this is nothing that you can change within a single day, you have to practice over and over again. Except that HPPD symptoms are there but don’t endanger you, stop being hyper aware of your body and your symptoms, stop analysing everything stop being scared of symptoms popping up. It is a part of us now. I’ve felt as soon as I let anxiety leave the chat more and more I started to relax and even though my symptoms clinically didn’t get better - 99% of the day I genuinely forget I have HPPD. I do want to mention though my HPPD symptoms are mostly visual (VSS, negative afterimages, seeing colourful spots here and there and rarely some DPDR (but honestly, DPDR I can recall I occasionally also got already when I was a child). Hope that helps! My DMs are open for related questions!

Hello all, I’ve had tinnitus and hypercaucis for about 3 years now as well as VSS. I used to be a cannabis smoker before that and during onset I stopped because it made the ringing in my head louder. Took a 9 month break and then dabbled again with no effect thankfully. So I’ve been consuming for about 2 years with these conditions with no issues. Randomly on May 7th I noticed I am seeing tracers, now when I first got this condition I noticed tracers before but was so consumed by the ringing I didn’t pay attention.

For some reason my brain is paying attention to the tracers now. I suspect it’s because my tinnitus is so low I almost can’t hear it; or it’s so far in the background now. This has been the case in the past (December 2025) but I wasn’t focusing on tracers I was just enjoying my life.

I don’t know if these tracers are new or if I’m just focusing on them out of the blue… I love cannabis, it calms me and helps me with stress. I don’t know why this is happening now but I dunno.

I test it with my partner and she says she can see the tracers too, I can only see them in certain light with a dark background.. ugh.. I just want to enjoy my life man…

Does this sound like thc induced tracers? I don’t even know if I have HPPD but everyone in the VSS Reddit suggest to come here.

Does HPPD come and go? Or is it something like once you have it that’s what you’re going to see for the rest of your life? Like with the static I see and the ringing in my ears - I know that’s for life and constant. I need advice.

TYIA

Am thinking of a career change to a surgical technologist. Am about 7 years in to HPPD..initially it was very scary but now it’s just second nature albeit still depresssing. I got a job as a UPS driver because I wanted something menial with little variables to manage anxiety. 5 years in company gone to shit but now I think I value job security more than the type of work I am doing/pay. Any and all input appreciated. Thank you.

Was it rigth after the experience, the day after or was it a week later, month??
Cuestion for those who happened to have tried smoking later on, obviously

Hi, I’m here to give an update. It’s been three months since my flare-up started, and I’m becoming more convinced that this is an episode of depersonalization and derealization rather than an HPPD flare-up.

My visual symptoms are: more saturated colors, the illusion of movement, breathing patterns, highly defined textures, stronger visual snow, a camera-like movement sensation when I move, the feeling that my memories belong to another life, a sense of being in a parallel reality, and the feeling that my brain isn't working right or is 'broken.'

I started taking Lamictal (I’m still on 75mg) and I take Lorazepam to sleep; otherwise, I suffer from terrible insomnia. I hope there is a cure for this—I don't want to and can't live like this. I’d appreciate your opinions or if you could share if you’ve experienced something similar or think you can help. Thanks for reading.

Hi, I did LSD 7 weeks back and it flared up my symptoms. I did lsd like after 5 years or so and I mainly had some after images and visual snow, that's it. Now I'm seeing mild tracers. The tracers are noticeable in low light or towards metallic objects. How long do I expect it to last before the symptoms reduce?

And i noticed i think its like better in morning and worse as the day goes, do you think in cooked or i will be good?

Im now on day 21 and im still feeling im just one step from ego death every few seconds or atleast my retarded brain thinks it , and i wonder if that is still or its no
Also greetings from czechia

I went out with a friend and took cannabis for the first time in my life, and I didn't know anything about tolerance or how it affects people differently. I smoked a joint and within a minute or so, I started getting palpitations and started walking wonky and everything was moving really slow (I presume that's a high, was my first time) - rushed to hospital when a nurse told me that the palpitations would go away.

Anyways, woke up next morning with visual disturbances that stayed - called HPPD (Got used to it, took some time). But also every time I ate, I felt so full and would feel nauseous for hours, if I had like a full meal then I would vomit. I am now pretty sure it is gastroparesis. But the most debilitating symptoms the constipation aside (somewhat managed my Movicol though slight discomfort from bloating) is that after I eat anything hours later, when it is slowly digesting I'm hit with the worst fatigue, like drop-dead fatigue but I'm not sleepy, if I go to lie down I feel better but no sleep comes - it's like an extreme "wired but tired".

I thought it was maybe my sleep quality wasn't great but even in the nights that I do get good sleep, this still occurs and I spotted the trend is when food is digesting, I get hit with this fatigue but I can't find any mention of this anywhere. The only solution to this is "undereating" - starve myself all day and have like a wrap, carbs seem to be the worst of offenders.

I do not think I have any intolerances, but something systemic, just wanted some advice on what it could potentially be.