[ickydog2006]

I haven't had any hallucinations for just over a year now, until yesterday. I was hallucinating blood, randomly, while driving, no triggers that I know of, but I could smell, taste, and feel it, but couldn't see it, then after about a minute it went away. I'm so terrified that the hallucinations will come back and get more intense despite being on meds. So, I was wondering if anyone else has had their hallucinations come back despite taking meds?

[mgran]

I don't know, but I do know that driving can be intensley triggering. (I'm not allowed to drive.) You say there were no triggers, but was it a stressful driving situation? I hallucinate accidents, and have tasted blood. (On trains, in cars, either driving or as a passenger.) It could be that subconsciously you were worried about an aspect of the situation, and you found it hard to confront that anxiety consciously. (Good Lord, I sound like such a psychobabbler...) Anyway, the thing is, even neurotypical people have hallucinations, or random anxieties. It's not well advertised, but it's true. Just because you had one blip, it doesn't mean that the full on crazies are about to make a comeback tour. Don't panic.

[PurpleFlyingMonkeys]

I'm sorry you are experiencing this ickydog. It's really hard when you see them come back. I'm umnmedicated and my hallucinations have about peaked right now but it's alright, I'm not afraid.

I was on meds for a long time. Meds for the hallucinations, depression, anxiety sleep etc... They really did help the hallucinations at first but they made my dissociation worse.

Anyways, so I was on meds for the hallucinations and they had cleared up for a while. Then I started seeing people leaping in front of my car while I was driving, I was still medicated.

My meds needed to be adjusted and with the adjustment it helped take away the hallucinations again. But shortly after the medication change, I just stopped taking them. The dissociation was interfering with my regular routines so I had to make the choice hallucinations or dissociation and at that point, the dissociation was too much to handle so I chose the hallucinations.

It's pretty scary at times, but I'm lucky to not have demanding voices like that. have internal occassional voices but that's a whole different topic.

Basically though, it is not uncommon for your hallucinations to come back a year after taking meds, your body is likely becoming used to the meds and an increase in dose or trying you on other meds will likely be what would happen if you spoke to a t about this. Meds like those don't always work forever, unfortunately we gotta switch them up every now and again and try a million that make us worse before we find the one that makes us better.

Best of luck to you, take care and hang in there, it will get better, just have to wait out the storm.