does it help you sleep well? anything bad come with it? any good alternative? i've recently started to experience stress and panic. i have no idea why having a hard time to sleep. just wondering. thanks
i looked at tylenol or advil pm before. the direction says, don't use it as a sleeping aid if that's your only purpose. so i stayed away from those. don't they have benadryl version that doesn't bother with the allergies? maybe there are other stuff for sleeping aid only.
Tylenol PM and Advil PM both contain benadryl as the "PM" ingredient. A young healthy person without allergies to medications should be able to tolerate 50mg of benadryl quite well.
Diphenhydramine, the active ingredient in benadryl is the same stuff that they use in OTC sleeping pills. It will make you sleepy as part of its anticholergenic effects, but tolerance develops very quickly. Some of the other anticholergenic effects are things like needing to pee, dry mouth and sinuses, and watery blurry eyes. Make sure you are actually going to sleep before you use it because its effects are not subtle. It is definitely safe, though. It’s been used for 50+ years in great volume with no major issues. My personal suggestion would be to only use it if you are sure you won't fall asleep any other way, as a last resort. I would try to avoid using it more than a day or two in a row. The difference with Tylenol PM is that it will have aspirin, which is not particularly useful to you for sleep purposes so should be avoided if possible.
thanks guys is it ok to take like half a pill before bed? i guess i won't be sleeping as long as taking the whole pill?
Nyquil man. Have none of the symptons listed on the bottle? Not a problem! Get the one with 10% alcohol though, that alcohol free stuff is weak.
This thread is awesome. Random drugs being thrown out to a person who no one really knows. lol. Benadryl has different effects on different people... one of its effects does make you drowsy, but when I worked in a hospital, pharmacists always told me in some people (kids?), it may cause them to be hyper. If you're suffering from stress/panic episodes, you may want to umm... ask a doctor if something's up. But if random pill popping is more your style... then... I dunno what to tell ya.
tried using it...however it caused by heart to beat like crazy so instead of sleeping I was awake for about 3 hours longer than it would have taken me to go to sleep naturally…….....my advise....don't take anything!
well, i'm going to get it checked out soon. i'm just thinking it's the stress. in the meantime, pop a few pills hehe.
Altering the dosage will only alter the severity of the effect, not the duration. Normally the way it works is that you consume the benadryl and the effects wear off after 2 or so hours but you are already asleep so you don't notice.
I would tell your doctor you're having trouble sleeping, and get a script for something like Ambien, if his alternative suggestions don't work. Sometimes, it can be as simple as too much caffeine during the day. Xanax in small doses, as needed, can be excellent for stress and panic attacks. I wouldn't take Benadryl for that sort of thing. It's not what it is intended for. Just my opinion.
drop sugar from your diet. you'll be surprised how much better your life becomes in terms of going to sleep at night.
