how much diphenhydramine is an overdose?

benadryl is a drug and a strong one at that i am an extreemly experienced benadryl user i to have tooken exessive amounts of benadryl at one time just to "trip" yes you do get hallucinations but i have vary rarely got hollucinations maybe once or twice but i have started taking benadryl two years ago and i have done it every night since and i love it i can say i am an addict and i have cut down but today my friend had stupidly tooken a whole bottle of benadryl ( about 100 pills) and he got shipped to the hospital and i told him that he would take way too much with benadryl it is a very hard drug acctually most acid users are affraid of it cuz the halucinations arnt really halucinations benadryl is a dileriant and it makes you delirious but with all drugs you have to find your own dose and to this day my hands shake and i see shadows moving all arround me and i used to be curious in this stuff but benadryl is getting quit old

Im usualy 135-140 lbs. it changes in like hours but if i took 15 of 50 mg capsuls, would i overdose? Once i took 2 to just forget everything at the time. and i couldnt stop talking and if the car turned slightly i would just go with the movment and sway back and forth. And frequently slur. so would 15, 50 mg capsules do it?

word, thats the first post i seen that describes diphenhydramine truthfully

I've taken over 2,500mg of Diphenhydramine in one dose before (I weighed 105 lbs at the time). A friend of mine took me to the hospital, after they found me in a delirious state. I actually never lost consciousness, and didn't even have to have my stomach pumped (they made me drink this charcoal shake to absorb the medication). The most that happened was that my short term memory completely fried out, and I couldn't even manage having a conversation because I couldn't remember what was just said to me. After they moved me out of the ER, into a room where I could sleep, I crashed and slept for close to 24 hours... so I'm not sure how long the delirium actually lasted. I haven't experienced any long term side-effects from this.

Most people are going to be just fine going (a little) over 100mg. You're body would have to be very sensitive to OD from that small of an amount. You'll know if you've taken too much if you start to get a noticeable "high". It won't be the normal relaxing/"weighty" feeling most sleep aids give you, it will be a high more similar to one you get from a psychotropic (delirium, "spinning", hallucination). You should be able to feel this coming on, so you'll be able to call a poison control center if you feel you need to. The main exception to this would be if you are mixing the diphenhydramine with another substance, in which case the results can be more unpredictable. So don't attempt to make you're own personal medication "cocktail".

Diphenhydramine is not a good way to get high, or commit suicide. The "high" you get from this is extremely unpleasant, more of something you would pay to not experience (headaches, nausea, confusion, irritability). And, despite what you may believe about attempting suicide there are almost no "easy" ways. Most pills are only going to leave you vomiting, delirious, and possibly experiencing seizures... and the end result is going to be that you are in an extreme amount of pain before you die. Again, you're not going to get lulled to sleep, you're just going to be delirious and in pain. So, rethink what you're doing before you attempt either.

yes, i have tried to trip off of it, or trip on, whatever... It's stupid, its not designed for that. Some phenethylamines and tryptamines are definitely drugs that are better for recreational use, not some OTC c**p that's poorly ineffective to the majority of us with sleep disorders. Other than that, expanding your mind with hallucinogens is only safe if you play it safe... end of story.

Well, I'm 14, but Benadryl is a dangerous substance whatever you do. I don't sleep very well, so I snorted about 250mg of it at one point, and did not fall asleep. I was seeing things and totally tripping on diphenhydramines. I found that it is not wise to ingest too much of the substance in any form, and it surely burns to snort. I would go with 50 to 100mg at most. :]

I take 6 - 8 Sleep Aid Liquid Gels every night & all thats really hapen to me is I fall asleep like 3hrs later but you do get a buz........other then that nothing has happened 8-|

I had taken 28 25mg pills before. I ended up having 911 called on me and ended up in the ER and soon after ICU for 3 days. It increased my heart rate to a high of 170...even after being injected with multiple pumps of klonopin (i think it was that or some other anti anxiety). i was awake with a high heart rate for 24 hours before they finally had to give me something more intense to knock me out. i was hallucinating, shaking, had no control of my bladder, was dizzy, and everytime i blinked i panicked screaming because i forgot where i was. it was a terrible experience that i remember very little of.

I took 30 pills at 50mg each. I ended up in a coma on a breathing machine. It almost killed me. Alot of people think that because it is OTC that taking alot cannot hurt you...

I was researching this issue because my son just overdosed on 100 pills of 25 mg. simply sleep (benadryl). The police found him in his car 8 hours later unresponsive. They broke the car window and got him out and took him to the ER. My kid's friends on the street and their parents all saw this horrible sight. We stayed with my son all night while he hallucinated. By the grace of God, he made it. But -- here are things people should consider. If he had survived the overdose, he would have frozen to death in the car. His temperature was 95 degrees when he got to the hospital at 9 pm. Just think what would have happened overnight when the temps dipped to 32. Just because he survived this many pills doesn't mean someone else will. Or that he doesn't have some sort of permanent damage to his brain, liver or kidneys. Tripping or overdosing is serious stuff. Also -- who knows how it interacts with other meds you might be taking, many of which are very common like antidepressants.

anyone else suspect a correlation perhaps between "14", "i snorted 250 mg" and unpleasant consequences, such as "burns to snort", "seeing things" and "totally tripping"?



P.S. perhaps the problem with drugs among our youth is merely illiteracy, as last time i checked, tablets are for oral rather than nasal consumption....

the problem isn't illiteracy, EVERYONE KNOWS U'R SUPPOSED TO SWALLOW PILLS. snorting just makes things stronger. btw, i took 575 mg a few nights ago, and i will NEVER get high on benadryl again. i was worse than ozzy osbourne. i'm lucky i didnt OD.

I know a guy that use to take 30 of the 50mg ones practically every weekend to hallucinate for over 5 years and he is still a beast when it comes to working out. He is still alive too. I have taken 15 of the 50mg ones myself in one night more than once and was paranoid that I might have caused some harm. So I went to the doctors and had a bunch of tests run like liver enzyme values and blood tests and what not. All of my tests came back good. So I guess I am still healthy. I am 33 years old now and that was over 4 years ago and I feel good and according to everyone else; I look like I am 25 years old.

I took 1550 mg at once and i am alive. I tripped balls and i don't think i would ever take that much again. I will stick to oc and herion....

I used to take 500mg daily without ever having an od. I stopped for about 2 months and then one night i took 250 mg and suddenly began to panic and wandered off into the city because i thought i was dying. worst experience in my life. so i guess what i am saying is to build up an immunity before you begin to take high dosages otherwise you can od on a dose that may seem harmless on paper.