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Originally Posted by SallyC
I've been reading up on Benedryl and found that some people have the opposite reaction to it....Anxiety and panic attacks.  I already have an axiety disorder so I better be careful.
Some have said it works great at 50 mg for sleep and others say that dose would have them flying off the walls. It's not unusual for people to have opposite reactions to meds, but I'm glad I found this out.
I may buy the cheap stuff and try it, though, to see if it works for me. Anybody else have this opposite reaction to Benedryl? |
When I was using it about...10 years? ago, to get to sleep. It worked great for me for about 8 or 9 months. Then it started to do the opposite effect. So, I switched to Nyquil Liquicaps (pill form of Nyquil) That worked pretty good for me, there was no alcohol that I know of in it, and because they were pill form, I knew exactly how much I'd taken. (when you're chugging the liquid form, it's hard to tell how much you took)
Then one day in 2001 there was a story on the news about there being an ingredient in Nyquil and some other cold medicines that was raising the chance of stroke happening in women of my age. (I was in my late 20s then)
So, I quit using it that night, after a couple of days I was sleeping "almost" normally. I was occasionally trying other stuff, but I was working for WalMart at that time, and WM managers are slave drivers, so I was not really having that big of a problem sleeping. I'd come home exhausted and heat stroked (they had crappy a/c there and wouldnt let us have a fan in our area)
After I lost my job at WM (they fired as many people as they could after 9-11) I got a job for Hobby Lobby, they werent as big a slave driver as WM, but I was still working hard enough to not have to worry about insomnia much.
I dont think I've had insomnia this bad in at least 8 years. It's certainly lasted longer than any bout of insomnia before.
I'm betting that most of my insomnia problems have stemmed from having MS. I didnt know about the MS till last year, but I can look back and see some signs of it as far back as late 1996, but I think I've had it longer than that...actually possibly since childhood.
I did actually go out shopping with my parents today, and we walked around a bit (with lots of rest breaks for both my parents) so at least I actually moved around a bit today and used up some energy.
I think I'm going to break down tonight and take 1/4 of one of the sedatives that my doctor Rx-ed to me last month. I do stay up so that I can chat with my boyfriend on Skype at night, but I think I'll send him a message saying that I'm going to bed early tonight... Maybe I can reset the internal clock and see if I can sleep as if I'm on Central Time, instead of Greenwich Mean Time.