losing memory

drugs are bad mkay

  On 4/24/2011 at 2:40 PM, Freak of the week said:

My friend once told me about a guy that was taking ecstasy (for a longer time, I suppose), and eventually he was unable to recall the things he read/learned the day before. Doctors discovered holes in his brain. I pretty much believe stories like this one should encourage people to stop taking drugs for good, or at least to be really careful when taking them.

He later became good friends with a friend of my friend who knows a guy who took bad acid once and still thinks he's a glass of orange juice and he's afraid to move because of spillage.

This is totally true, you can ask my friend.

Best of luck with your issues jules, sounds somewhat familiar and I too have noticed the positive effects of exercise, somewhat healthy meals and trying not to get too wound-up about small things.

I can't remember the last time I forgot anything...

  On 4/25/2011 at 9:05 AM, underscore said:

  On 4/25/2011 at 5:41 AM, Kcinsu said:

Jules, didn't you make a thread about this a couple of months ago?

lol

  On 4/24/2011 at 2:40 PM, Freak of the week said:

Doctors discovered holes in his brain.

pics or it didn't happen.

  On 4/25/2011 at 9:10 PM, hahathhat said:

  On 4/24/2011 at 2:40 PM, Freak of the week said:

Doctors discovered holes in his brain.

 

pics or it didn't happen.

they're called olney's lesions and they're more commonly associated with long-term, extreme DXM or PCP abuse (although the DXM claim is controversial).

i know. and f-o-t-w cited E as the cause.

you can certainly fuck yourself up with lots of E, but i don't think it causes olney's lesions. more medical hearsay on the internets

edit: regarding DXM, my understanding is it takes way more than even a hardcore druggie would take. not that DXM is terribly safe in the first place.

jules, have you tried imagining that your dead relatives are watching your every move?

  On 4/26/2011 at 5:50 PM, keltoi said:

jules, have you tried imagining that your dead relatives are watching your every move?

 

 

 

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when expecting the birth of my daughter i didn't feel stressed in my day to day but i was having these sleep seizure things and getting no quality sleep as a result. when she was born beautiful and healthy my problems stopped and i slept like a log every night. the doc told me it was a sub-conscious manifestation of the stress/anxiety of expecting a child, etc. for the last 6 months i've just been riding on a wave, enjoying every minute... but in the last 2 weeks we've been discussing moving house for more space, garden, etc and the sleep seizures are back. so stress seems to bubble under the surface for me, like i can feel strees-free and function perfectly well throughout the day but when i close my eyes to sleep i'm a secret worrier. i also have some memory loss issues, noticing a decreased flow in speech skills, like a slower access to my previously decent vocabulary when talking or writing. attention span deficit, etc. i used to read a ton of books and now can't be arsed cos it takes more effort. i put it all down to my past indulgences (i've also been 'good' for the last 7 years or so - although i still smoke about 5 cigs a day and drink socially maybe a couple of times a week(which leads to more smoking)) and worry things are going to deteriorate rapidly.

 

lol.

and yes, your symptoms are mine exactly except i stress when im awake too.

meant to say jules... my doc prescribed a couple of months worth of sedative anti-histamine tablets (just not non-drowsy allergy meds) to get some decent sleep without any worries about side effects or dependance.

i took them for a couple of weeks and got some quality sleep... then started forgetting to take them without the problems recurring... and was fine until now.