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Macmod

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Hi. A few months ago I gathered with some friends and we used some blotters (of what they sold me as LSD but I have a strong belief that it wan't) and smoked weed. I didn't have a bad trip, it was a weird trip. I lost my visual field, like there was only 5 places I could look at and the spaces between were invisible. I started to lose chunks of time (like 30s, 1 minute, 2 minutes) and also lost my hearing, feel and at some point I even stopped in a place and started to rotate around myself. Some hours later (5 or 6 hours) the effects were over.
Weeks passed and I started to have some minor sense disturbs like losing my feeling for a couple minutes. The thing escalated and now I experience this shit everytime and there are times like now in which I stay days not feeling my body. I already took a CT and a MRI and both were useless.
Is there anybody out there who had a similar problem and has some kind of solution for me?

(Sorry for the poor english but I'm not native)
Thanks :D
 
I'm also sweating a lot and I noticed that I get very tired when this happens. (Not joking, I'm saying because it can be helpful for the understanding) Today I had sex with my gf and I got so tired that I almost fell into the ground. Almost couldn't walk after, and we weren't even "wild" or anything.
 
Hi Macmod, I have not experienced any of the symptoms you are experiencing but it seems like there is some type of anxiety that has developed after your use. The only thing I can advice you is to not touch any drugs for a few months or so so that the brain and body heals. Eat healthy, exercise and you should be back to normal soon.
 
It sounds a lot like a form of epilepsy to me affecting the occipital lobe among other things, I am not sure if they were able to rule that out but that may be possible unless you had an episode while getting that MRI.

It certainly wouldn't surprise me if the psychedelic triggered these insults but there is a good chance it was already there latently (dormant and unnoticed). I guess it is not latent anymore now.

What is also important is that you understand that I am not a doctor and that even a medical doctor giving you advice here on BL wouldn't be very appropriate to take too seriously... but that this sounds familiar from things I have seen and read, from Oliver Sacks among others. Also it does not sounds like HPPD or a psychiatric thing to me be rather a neurological syndrome. And I don't think grand mal type seizures fit either but maybe it could be related to absent seizures since you mention losing touch.

Not sure how dependable you are finding your medical care, but we cannot offer a proper diagnosis in their stead, if that was not obvious to you.

Maya's advice is sound: don't take any more drugs that are in some way connected to epilepsy or are known to lower the seizure threshold.
 
don't think so but an MRI is... ;)
in my opinion your neurologist (and I assume you visited a neurologist) should have done that before CT or MRI...
you should be completely honest with your doctor btw.
 
OP can you explain your symptoms in a little more detail? its hard to tell from your post whether you are experience normal flashbacks from a relatively normal acid trip or medical issues that need to be examined.
 
GreenMachine said:
OP can you explain your symptoms in a little more detail? its hard to tell from your post whether you are experience normal flashbacks from a relatively normal acid trip or medical issues that need to be examined.
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I can't feel right when I touch any part of my body. It's like an anesthesia. If I scratch myself I know that I am being scratched but all I feel is a kind of heat in the area, it doesn't hurt the way it was supposed to hurt. Can't feel my mouth while I am eating (can feel the taste of course, but just seems like the food is floating in my mouth).
 
Really? Oh in that case ignore my previous post - that sounds like something different is going on, but still a neurological issue. I thought the transient consciousness was recurrent, a number of things like that were or are not completely clear...

Insensitivity to pain may also result from abnormalities in the nervous system. This is usually the result of acquired damage to the nerves, such as spinal cord injury, diabetes mellitus (diabetic neuropathy), or leprosy in countries where this is prevalent.[31] These individuals are at risk of tissue damage due to undiscovered injury. People with diabetes-related nerve damage, for instance, sustain poorly healing foot ulcers as a result of decreased sensation.[32]
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Pain asymbolia, also called pain dissociation, is a condition in which pain is experienced without unpleasantness. This usually results from injury to the brain, lobotomy, cingulotomy or morphine analgesia. Preexisting lesions of the insula may abolish the aversive quality of painful stimuli while preserving the location and intensity aspects. Typically, patients report that they have pain but are not bothered by it; they recognize the sensation of pain but are mostly or completely immune to suffering from it.[1][2]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_asymbolia

I would still suspect nerve damage but as long as imaging test results remain inconclusive and you add no extra symptoms or severity to the list nor suffer from other types of episodes that indicates an underlying progressive illness it is probably wise if you do some research on conditions such as pain insensitivity including the congenital type because you run risks other people might not such as any related or unrelated symptoms / conditions / illness remaining undetected and not signaled by anyone including yourself. And maybe there is other similar stuff as well.

I don't entirely understand the extent of your issues, if they are as far as you are concerned or aware limited to insensitivity to pain then coping and managing seems like a much different task than if this is just one of multiple problems you are getting as a result of underlying issues of the nervous system.
 
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i know there are things called "dissociative fugue states" that can happen on psychedelics to some people, especially when combined with certain pharmaceutical medications. you certainly sound like you with through quite a confusing dissociative experience, but i am no doctor, and i venture to say that hardly anyone on here is. as awkward as it might be to tell your doctor that you use drugs, you should probably consult a medical professional.
 
As a registered nurse what your describing sounds like some kind of neurological damage. The brain has an amazing capacity to heal itself so all those stories of killing of brain cells are only semi true. Basically the damaged neurons create new neural pathways over time to compensate. Eventually you should be ok. See a Neurologist get a GP to refer you tell them everything as they have a duty of confidentiality to clients. I'm sure it's transient but see a neuro just to be safe. Wiki won't give you much in the way of answers and will just increase your anxiety/stress levels. Say safe and see medical professional to give you an accurate diagnosis, not a GP but a neurologist.
 
do you have the opportunity to test the blotters you took? it most likely wasn't LSD, which is suppsed to last more then 6 hours.
anyways you should really see a neurologist because this could be something serious and we can't really help you.
also you should stay away from drugs for a good while, I don't know if your issue iz drug related also because we don't even know what you took, but better stay safe
 
ComfortablyNumb95 said:
do you have the opportunity to test the blotters you took? it most likely wasn't LSD, which is suppsed to last more then 6 hours.
anyways you should really see a neurologist because this could be something serious and we can't really help you.
also you should stay away from drugs for a good while, I don't know if your issue iz drug related also because we don't even know what you took, but better stay safe
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I didn't test but also I had no color-related hallucinations and didn't see anything unreal (1/2 blotter). Despite of the little pieces of time I lost and the crazyness in the focus of vision, hearing and attention, I still remember almost everything, so afterwards I considered that probably it wasn't LSD.
 
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