ya, you could have bad effects with diphenhydramine if you have an allergy to it...may be an issue
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As a psychiatrist, I can tell you that 100mgs of Diphenhydramine HCL is NOT an overdose. 100mgs is the maxium dose in a twenty-four hour period. At 100mgs, you would just experience fatigue, nausea, and dizziness.
----------well doesnt those symptoms side effect indications of ODing? Pls dont treat anyone.:O
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The other day (i forgot if it was yesterday or two days ago) i took 13 Benadryl pills, and even though i didn't see any hallucinations, i did feel very weak and shaky. everytime i tried to stand up i felt like i was gonna fall down, i also felt like i was losing my concentration every second as i kept dazing in and out. When ever i tried to close my eyes they would always would flicker open. i did'nt think i OD but i might have been if i kept taking the pills.
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i know these posts are a little old, but thought i would put my two cents in. when i was 11 i took around 10,000mgs of tylenol and around 1000 mg's of benedryl. i never got any treatment though. i remember that in the middle of the night, (i had passed out at some point) woke up and i felt like a sledge hammer was beating my head wide open. i was blind, nautious, and in alot of pain. i managed to feel my way to the toilet and puked up alot, which is what i think probably saved my life. after the puking, i couldnt lie down without that pain in my head returning, but it seemed to be better when i sat up. so i stayed up most of the night. think i passed out sitting up in a chair at some point. my mother woke me up the next morning and made me go to school, even though she knew what had happened and never got me medical care either. my sight was blurry for three days, to the point that friends at school had to help me walk. i couldnt eat without puking and i had a massive headache. the conclusion: dont take this much benedryl or tylenol together. i was lucky. i made my mother take me to the doctor a week later, and the doctor said the was surprised i was sitting in front of him.
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I really dont know how much would cause overdose. I take 5 at 50 mg so 250 mg I buy mine at health warehouse a thousand at 50mg. I started out taking regular 25mg then moved up over the years. I finally got fed up buying 2 bottles every month so did the 1000. My doctor looked it up and told me I can take 25 to 400mg a day. she did say that it bothered her that I took 250 all at one time. I am f 28 5'4 128 pounds so size does not make a difference. I have like someone mentioned built up quite a tolerance to these. I take 250mg and it does not knock me out it just makes it easier for me to fall asleep and stay asleep through the night. If anyone else knows of something else please post. I have no insurance so no ambien or lunesta
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Must take heaps to OD. I heard you can hallucinate on like 400mg so I took 20 pills (50mg) each = 1000mg and MAN did it mess me up. I was speaking to people that weren't there, shadows would glow and disappear, stuff on my bed would vanish when i tried to touch it, i heard things that weren't there.. yeah the list goes on. I wasn't trying to OD but if you are DO NOT TAKE THIS! It'll likely not do any harm except mess with your head and get you sectioned. Trust me, I'd rather drink myself to death than do these again... i'm 5'6 140lb female btw.
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So, there are a lot of chicken-sh**s like me! Wanting to check-out but afraid of the mess and the pain, so diphenhydramine seems to be the answer.. just peacefully die in your sleep, so we think! I wish I had done a little more research other than look for the lethal dose! It has been 4 years and I'm still suffering from that night.
I don't remember the dosage anymore, can't even look up the brand or the name until now. It was a simple over the counter bottle of extra strength sleeping pills. I opened each capsule and emptied the white powdered diphenhydramine into a plastic measuring spoon. It was sunset. I made a few phone calls, took the spoon and tried to swallow in one go. That was the first mistake! Ever seen the youtube video of swallowing a spoonful of cinnamon.. same concept, except imagine the cinnamon is powdered acid. It burned my throat and everything else around it.. I washed it down with half a bottle of Irish Whiskey... so after trying to talk and my vocal cords were fried, I went up to my bed and said my last prayer.
Opened my eyes, wondered if I was still alive. I could hear, but could not move even a finger. Then I realized my heart was beating like I wouldn't believe, twice as fast as a jack-hammer! So I told myself, so this is how it's going to happen, it's going to be a cardiac arrest! But would you believe it, I felt like I needed to pee.. but I couldn't move.
It's funny how in the moment, I still refused to urinate in bed. So I tried to hold it in.. but beginning to think about things like, I'm sure it would just come out when I do die, so what's the difference? At this point, my eyeballs can still move, and I can still hear myself breathing.
I'm not sure how much time later, I managed to move my neck and eventually one by one my limbs.. rolled myself out of bed, and another long process of crawling to the washroom. At this point, I had changed my mind and decided to try and drink a lot of water to barf out the stupid stuff... I have a sunken bathroom, needless to say fell all over the place to try to turn on the faucet. When I managed to do this, couldn't get myself to drink any water because of epilepsy! Everytime I went for the giant gushing stream of water I would miss, ... and my hands were starting to shake also.
After collapsing while the water flowed, managed to fall where the water landed on the floor.. but guess what?! I could not swallow! Embarassing to admit, since I was all wet, tried to pee too, and second guess what?! I can't pee! I feel my bladder full, but can't friggin' urinate!
The involuntary muscle control was getting worse by the minute, and I knew I don't want to be found this way, but obviously the anticipated heart-attack is not longer the concern but the possibility of what if I survive and am like that forever? Also, at this point, the thoughts are non-cohesive.. it's like I'm trapped in a very sick person's body. I can attempt to think but there is something else doing a lot of thinking and nothing made sense.
Crawled to the kitchen and tried to get a knife to finish myself off lest live like that for an unknown length of time.. Upon reaching kitchen, halucinations began! Started seeing giant vortex holes in the wall.. At this point thought maybe I had died. Still attempted some logic.. it can't be true.. so looked at other walls, no vortex. It always stayed in one place. Then the ground started to mound up, like in a horror movie.. I was expecting a demon or some kind of nasty ghost (since it is a mortal sin to kill yourself).. but no ghosts.. instead, people... people I don't know.. I find that I am talking.. no sound was coming out thanks to my messed up vocal cords, and I start listening to what I'm saying. Sounds like sentences but doesn't make any sense. I'd be having conversations but somewhere in between the people would suddenly disappear..
It's time for 911! To my next delight, can't even dial three friggin' numbers, because my hands are shaking so hard that I cannot press the correct number! All this while I'm battling to keep control of my body because some other intelligence seems to have taken over. To make matters worse, my eyesight suddenly turned dark!
It was already morning, I'm sitting there, halucinating, violently shaking uncontrollably, heart rate still fast like crazy, mouth so dry, feels like I'm burning up, blind... and wondering how long I need to keep suffering. I know surely I'm going to die, but how much more weird things are going to happen before it does?
A day later, have regained control of body, but halucinations are still really bad! Have managed to swallow small amounts of water, and am finally able to pee. Managed to call a friend who took care of me, did the research, and never left me alone! I have become very frightened of everything.. of people finding out, of what is on the other side.. suddenly became afraid that I might not wake up! Suddenly the goal was to get better.. that the best thing in life is not to have seizures.. that my hands stop shaking.. even just to be able to go back to work or even carry a conversation with a person! Suddenly whatever it was doesn't seem so bad anymore... it certainly wasn't worth destroying this body over!
When I started to drive again, it was very difficult! I had lost a lot of hair, it just kept falling (no, I'm not bald now, it became thick again). I would see things on the road that are not there. I could not tell between halucinations and reality, except when a person suddenly appears beside me in the car, I know that's not real. The ones outside the car are the challenge, they look pretty real to me! They were not even out of place.. like if I saw a rabbit wearing clothes, I would not it's not real. First day of work is equally funny (well, it's funny now), I would be talking on the phone and all of a sudden hear the loud beeping sound indicating that the phone was left off the hook without anybody at the other end.
Immediately following that, lost a lot of money. Had bad people around who quickly discovered that I had NO short-term memory! They would argue with me and I started to get convinced that they were right! .. - Today, am still going the extra mile to improve my memory, my eyesight, and finding a way to fix my nerves.. I always feel like there are spider webs on my arms. Talk about being f*cked up! I exercise, try to eat well, and sleep early.. because when I get tired, my eyes still get completely blury and this stupid short term memory! I remember everything from long ago down to the details.. but I can never remember a name, a face, a number, right after I am told! So to all of you who argue that it is harmless or it is impossible to have such complications.. that there are no long term damages or effects... obviously you are not talking from experience. And to you who is thinking about taking your life, DON'T. I am not in your shoes and I could never understand your pain! But this is a glimpse of mine, I hope it makes a difference!
I don't remember the dosage anymore, can't even look up the brand or the name until now. It was a simple over the counter bottle of extra strength sleeping pills. I opened each capsule and emptied the white powdered diphenhydramine into a plastic measuring spoon. It was sunset. I made a few phone calls, took the spoon and tried to swallow in one go. That was the first mistake! Ever seen the youtube video of swallowing a spoonful of cinnamon.. same concept, except imagine the cinnamon is powdered acid. It burned my throat and everything else around it.. I washed it down with half a bottle of Irish Whiskey... so after trying to talk and my vocal cords were fried, I went up to my bed and said my last prayer.
Opened my eyes, wondered if I was still alive. I could hear, but could not move even a finger. Then I realized my heart was beating like I wouldn't believe, twice as fast as a jack-hammer! So I told myself, so this is how it's going to happen, it's going to be a cardiac arrest! But would you believe it, I felt like I needed to pee.. but I couldn't move.
It's funny how in the moment, I still refused to urinate in bed. So I tried to hold it in.. but beginning to think about things like, I'm sure it would just come out when I do die, so what's the difference? At this point, my eyeballs can still move, and I can still hear myself breathing.
I'm not sure how much time later, I managed to move my neck and eventually one by one my limbs.. rolled myself out of bed, and another long process of crawling to the washroom. At this point, I had changed my mind and decided to try and drink a lot of water to barf out the stupid stuff... I have a sunken bathroom, needless to say fell all over the place to try to turn on the faucet. When I managed to do this, couldn't get myself to drink any water because of epilepsy! Everytime I went for the giant gushing stream of water I would miss, ... and my hands were starting to shake also.
After collapsing while the water flowed, managed to fall where the water landed on the floor.. but guess what?! I could not swallow! Embarassing to admit, since I was all wet, tried to pee too, and second guess what?! I can't pee! I feel my bladder full, but can't friggin' urinate!
The involuntary muscle control was getting worse by the minute, and I knew I don't want to be found this way, but obviously the anticipated heart-attack is not longer the concern but the possibility of what if I survive and am like that forever? Also, at this point, the thoughts are non-cohesive.. it's like I'm trapped in a very sick person's body. I can attempt to think but there is something else doing a lot of thinking and nothing made sense.
Crawled to the kitchen and tried to get a knife to finish myself off lest live like that for an unknown length of time.. Upon reaching kitchen, halucinations began! Started seeing giant vortex holes in the wall.. At this point thought maybe I had died. Still attempted some logic.. it can't be true.. so looked at other walls, no vortex. It always stayed in one place. Then the ground started to mound up, like in a horror movie.. I was expecting a demon or some kind of nasty ghost (since it is a mortal sin to kill yourself).. but no ghosts.. instead, people... people I don't know.. I find that I am talking.. no sound was coming out thanks to my messed up vocal cords, and I start listening to what I'm saying. Sounds like sentences but doesn't make any sense. I'd be having conversations but somewhere in between the people would suddenly disappear..
It's time for 911! To my next delight, can't even dial three friggin' numbers, because my hands are shaking so hard that I cannot press the correct number! All this while I'm battling to keep control of my body because some other intelligence seems to have taken over. To make matters worse, my eyesight suddenly turned dark!
It was already morning, I'm sitting there, halucinating, violently shaking uncontrollably, heart rate still fast like crazy, mouth so dry, feels like I'm burning up, blind... and wondering how long I need to keep suffering. I know surely I'm going to die, but how much more weird things are going to happen before it does?
A day later, have regained control of body, but halucinations are still really bad! Have managed to swallow small amounts of water, and am finally able to pee. Managed to call a friend who took care of me, did the research, and never left me alone! I have become very frightened of everything.. of people finding out, of what is on the other side.. suddenly became afraid that I might not wake up! Suddenly the goal was to get better.. that the best thing in life is not to have seizures.. that my hands stop shaking.. even just to be able to go back to work or even carry a conversation with a person! Suddenly whatever it was doesn't seem so bad anymore... it certainly wasn't worth destroying this body over!
When I started to drive again, it was very difficult! I had lost a lot of hair, it just kept falling (no, I'm not bald now, it became thick again). I would see things on the road that are not there. I could not tell between halucinations and reality, except when a person suddenly appears beside me in the car, I know that's not real. The ones outside the car are the challenge, they look pretty real to me! They were not even out of place.. like if I saw a rabbit wearing clothes, I would not it's not real. First day of work is equally funny (well, it's funny now), I would be talking on the phone and all of a sudden hear the loud beeping sound indicating that the phone was left off the hook without anybody at the other end.
Immediately following that, lost a lot of money. Had bad people around who quickly discovered that I had NO short-term memory! They would argue with me and I started to get convinced that they were right! .. - Today, am still going the extra mile to improve my memory, my eyesight, and finding a way to fix my nerves.. I always feel like there are spider webs on my arms. Talk about being f*cked up! I exercise, try to eat well, and sleep early.. because when I get tired, my eyes still get completely blury and this stupid short term memory! I remember everything from long ago down to the details.. but I can never remember a name, a face, a number, right after I am told! So to all of you who argue that it is harmless or it is impossible to have such complications.. that there are no long term damages or effects... obviously you are not talking from experience. And to you who is thinking about taking your life, DON'T. I am not in your shoes and I could never understand your pain! But this is a glimpse of mine, I hope it makes a difference!
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well I have taken benadryl recreationally many times.
I have taken up to 20 tablets of 25 mg benadryl and oh shitttt was I tripping balls have fun tripping peace
I have taken up to 20 tablets of 25 mg benadryl and oh shitttt was I tripping balls have fun tripping peace
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Whoever you are if you have an anonymous email like me and would like to talk more about your experience because I would like to share my experience with you. Mine, thank God was not as severe as yours, but I know why that is. I don't know if this site will allow this or not but I can try. ***this post is edited by moderator *** *** private e-mails not allowed **
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Don't worry I won't preach to you just relate my own personal experience which was just a few days ago. I don't know if I read your reply before would've done the job of stopping me or not but I still wish I had.
Thank you for your lengthy, detailed personal experience, thank you for posting it. I'm sure there are others who have changed their minds just because of you. If you decide you rather not contact me, that too is okay. May God bless you for your reply and He is there waiting for you to speak to Him. He is listening and will help you, all you have to do is ask in Jesus' name.
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Don't worry I won't preach to you just relate my own personal experience which was just a few days ago. I don't know if I read your reply before would've done the job of stopping me or not but I still wish I had.
Thank you for your lengthy, detailed personal experience, thank you for posting it. I'm sure there are others who have changed their minds just because of you. If you decide you rather not contact me, that too is okay. May God bless you for your reply and He is there waiting for you to speak to Him. He is listening and will help you, all you have to do is ask in Jesus' name.
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I usually take about 375mgs per night and I am fine.
However, you do develop a tolerance and have officially started at 450mgs.
I've seen people take 1000mgs and wake up the next day fine, but nobody really knows the LD50 of Diphenhydramine HCL.
However, you do develop a tolerance and have officially started at 450mgs.
I've seen people take 1000mgs and wake up the next day fine, but nobody really knows the LD50 of Diphenhydramine HCL.
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i have successfully taken 1250mg doses many times. with no prior use of the drug and lived. its hard to OD if your normal
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You should be good unless your body cant tolerate/process large doses of Diphenhydramine.I'm a guy who weighs about 190-198(ish) Ive taken up to 200mg at one time due to terrible problems falling asleep. So no worreis :-)
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Last night I took more Benadryl than suggested, dosage of 25mg, 8 tablets...An hour later my heart began to race and I was getting brain zaps. Another 20 minutes and my entire body was like I was being electrocuted...I was hallucinating and crying. My chest hurt, the 'electrocution' zaps came in waves and some of them were so strong I screamed becaue I thought I was going to die right there.. Like a lot of you here, I needed to sleep. Because of what happened, I will NEVER take this drug again..I am lucky to be alive..I called my brother 2,000 miles away and asked him to talk me through it..we were on the phone 3 hours. He refused to hang up before knowing I was ok. I learned a very hard and bitter lesson and will be treating my body a lot better than I have been!
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I would not worry about overdosing under 600mgs if you are a paranoid lightweight. Personally I'm pretty tolerant of the stuff, the only problem I have ever had is feeling like Im either not breathing, having trouble breathing, or forgetting to breathe. Lol anyways ima keep it below 1000mgs cause I'd rather use real drugs to trip
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Just thought I would share my personal experience w bendryl. I am 38 yrs and weigh 170. I have taken four 25 mg capsules due to chronic insomnia for 6 years. That is 200mgs per night. I have never had any issues with taking this amount. I am currently discontinuing my use of this medication due to my suspicion that it may be affecting my short term memory. I will follow up in two week to inform if I have withdrawal symptoms and improvement of short term memory.
Also, I would like to urge anyone considering using this drug to get high or hallucinate please reconsider. It is not worth the potential adverse consequences.
Also, I would like to urge anyone considering using this drug to get high or hallucinate please reconsider. It is not worth the potential adverse consequences.
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