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lsd - tingling itch, lasting for months?

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persona3nyx

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2 times out of the 3 times i've done lsd, i had a weird tingling itch sensation from under my skin. it didn't happen the first time. but the 2nd time it did, and i thought it was maybe part of a bad trip. the 3rd time it happened again. it made me stop doing lsd. a few weeks later, the same sensation returned, and has lasted for 3 months. anyone ever hear of anything like this or know what this might be?
 
Are you sweating? Is your skin sensitive to something? Soap, shampoo, sunscreen, laundry detergent?

Typically sensory distortions don't appear during a trip, vanish for a while, and then reappear later... usually it's continuous (HPPD) or only during the trip (normal) that it presents a problem.
 
no, i'm not sweating; and it happens during both cold and hot weather conditions, on and off throughout the day. i've switched between soaps, shampoo's, etc in a attempt to test if i perhaps was allergic to something.
and interesting. :o
i know that it started my second time due to a bad trip involving insects, leading to the feeling of them under my skin; might it be neurotoxicity that has altered the normal activity of my nervous system in such a way as to cause damage to nervous tissue? or is that an impossible side-effect of lsd use?
 
LSD is not neurotoxic. 'Psychotoxic' might be a better term - it can cause exacerbations of normal bodily effects that become focal points that users worry about such as "floaters" and derealization/depersonalization. It's sort of a form of PTSD - if you're exposed to extremely unpleasant sensations or imagery, and you continue to recall them, the memories will become stronger and stronger.

But that's rare and mostly associated with bad trips and high doses.

There's not much you can really do but stop focusing on it, it should go away in time. Other promising therapies used in HPPD are short-term benzodiazepine therapy (anxiolytic), MDMA (PTSD recovery), and certain drugs that block the formation of new memories that can be used for "erasing" bad experiences (look into Drugs In The Media, fairly sure there was a discussion there)

It is very unlikely that you have anything physically wrong with your body.
 
Actually it has the potential to be neurotoxic. It increase glutamate transmission and there's a theory suggesting that HPPD is damage to GABAergic neurones due to over excitation.
 
cannibalsnail said:
Actually it has the potential to be neurotoxic. It increase glutamate transmission and there's a theory suggesting that HPPD is damage to GABAergic neurones due to over excitation.
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Hmm. Interesting. Could you link to any reasearch along these lines? I've never heard this theory before.
 
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