No! Diphehydramine half-life is 8-18 hours!!
Seroquel is an anti psychotic, use as a sleep aid only is questionable.
I didn't know that! Benadryl makes me so hyper. I have multiple sclerosis. So, there you go. Explains everything.
I hate when people give advice like this. It's always the person who has no health problems that has all the answers.
Just read your post tommy. Thank you for your warm positivity along with the information you wrote. Very awesome of you!
Serouqel really messed with my sleeping habits and o found I was always groggy. It also very commonly makes people gain weight. I gained 20 pounds on serouqel and had an apitite fit for a king on it on only 25-50mg a night. I ended up asking my doctor to take me off of it.
It's my personal experience but both good side effects to take into consideration.
It's my personal experience but both good side effects to take into consideration.
Diphenhydramine keeps me up all night! I have tried it and it does not work for me at all! I have recently tried Walgreens Wal-Som that has Doxylamine and it works very good!!! It has been the best over the counter that I have tried! The pharmacy recommended it to me since I can't take antihistamines.
Same for me! So we are among the about 5% people for whom the Diphenhydramine has a reverse effect and keeps us wide awake :(
Seraquel is an anti psychotic used for mood disorders and schizophrenia. It essentially knocks you out, nubs you out and makes you fat. Trust, you don't want that.
Another long-time insomniac checking in, looking for the magic solution. Actually, I know what mine is, but narcotics are illegal, even at the miniscule doses that are helpful for this problem. I don't take drugs. I avoid them like the plague. In fact, years ago when I had oral surgery and they prescribed hydrocodone (a narcotic) for the immediate pain afterward, I used it for one day and one night, then as the pain became less, I just stuck the bottle in a cabinet and used aspirin. (Hah, back then, they gave you two WEEKS worth, with a 2X renewal script!). Fast forward to later in life, when insomnia became a problem...we all know how Nyquil helps you sleep. So I tried a half-dose every now and then to sleep a full night so I didn't start hallucinating from lack of sleep (yes, it's happened). I had no side effects from the small dosage, I slept through the night and woke full of energy, ready to go, but taking it for more than 2 nights reversed the effect. And also, as I said, I don't like taking drugs, so it was easy not to make a habit of it. Then they changed the formula, and I started having a slight drug hangover when I used it, so I quit Nyquil and started looking for something else. I've tried EVERYTHING - the so-called natural remedies (camomile, melatonin), the dietary changes (eat watermelon, drink tart cherry juice, try warm milk, don't eat before you go to sleep, eat a LOT before you go to sleep), yoga, meditation, whatever, I tried it. Nothing. (Although I stuck with the yoga, it's nice). Someone suggested benedryl, but I have a horrible reaction to it, can't take it at all, not even for hay fever or cold symptoms. Every last drop of moisture in my body is sucked dry by benedryl. I swear it even feels like the stuff is shrinking my brain, my eyes, my tongue, yech, just thinking about it makes me feel ill. And I'm talking about VERY small doses (hah, one whole benedryl almost killed me). Oh, one thing that did help - I was being treated for a balance problem which my doctor attributed to nerve damage due to a lack of uptake of B vitamins for some unknown reason. She gave me B vitamin shots for about 6 months, once a month. I never slept better in all my adult life than the first week after each of those six shots. But they won't give you B vitamin shots for insomnia, go figure. And as for B vitamin pills, apparently I don't absorb them well, so no joy there. So, yeah, one day I was cleaning out my medicine cabinet and I found those old hydrocodone tablets and remembered how deeply I had slept when I took them. I read up on the stuff, realized it was something I really didn't want to mess around with, so I chopped up one of the pills and took a tiny dose...yep. Slept like a baby, woke up energized, no after effects at all. But hey - narcotic! Danger, Will Robinson! I horded that 2-week prescription for almost a year and a half, breaking up the tablets and only allowing myself two doses per month, and only when I felt like things were approaching dangerous with the lack of sleep. But they're long gone now, and I just can't bring myself to ask the dentist to rip out more teeth just so I can get some sleep, so I'm back to the great search. Last week, I checked with the pharmacist at my local Walgreens, and of course he went right to the 'antihistamines!' recommendation. I told him my problem with them, and he enlightened me about diphenhydramine and doxylamine succinate, and how most OTC remedies were diphenhydramine, and that doxylamine succinate was milder and considered safe enough for pregnant women. He then dug up some generic OTC doxylamine succinate and suggested I try it. Last night, I cut one in half, took that, and...nope. Although it did make me drowsy, I still had the awful reaction, and I had a major drug hangover the next day, couldn't get out of bed and moving until 11AM!!! (I went to bed with that half-dosage at 10:30PM). Yeah, that's NOT going to work. Tonight I'm gonna try to cut the remaining half of that tablet in half and see what happens. If that doesn't work, I guess I'll just go out and find the local pusher. (JOKING, NSA, JOKING!)
Oh, and no, I won't take prescription sleep aids. Have you SEEN the side effects of those drugs? And how addictive they are? Although of course, the drug companies weasel-word it and say no, they're not addictive, but you must "wean yourself off the drug under a doctor's care," and while doing so, you will suffer hellacious side effects. How is that not addiction? (How dumb do they think we are?) And I really REALLY don't want to wake up some morning and find out I've killed my whole family and maybe the neighbors while under the influence. Or maybe just jumped off the roof, or something. No thanks. Might as well just go directly insane from lack of sleep - it's cheaper. (haha, it's really funny that my anti-bot word is WARMTH, given the grim topic here). Sleep well, y'all.
I know this is an old post, but quetiapine(seroquel) has some pretty gnarly side effects and I can say from personal experience that in the case for insomnia it should be avoided. Doses above 200 mg make it work as a dopamine antagonist that can and will give you parkinson-like(tardive dyskinesea) symptoms over time. Under 200mg it works primarily as an antihistamine, but the many negative side effects are still present. Of course, peoples opinions on drugs are subjective to their experience. id try the hypnotic drug class before using atypical antipsychotics, less habit forming ime.
You like did not say anything.
My bottle of Unisom says it is Diphenhydramine HCL, not Doxylamine...
You can, but I would try to avoid that. Does 25 mg not work?