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Anyone screwed around with Benadryl?

JacksinPA

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It was interesting to read that this OTC antihistamine is a deleriant. IOW, you get stoned on higher doses than the 25 mg dose that they advise on the package. Hallucinations are mentioned as one of the effects & that they might be so realistic that you might fall & injure yourself. The experience was also said to be unpleasant.

One of the surprising thing was that I had not noticed Benadryl on any lists of designer & other drugs of abuse. I'd welcome even second hand comments from those who have screwed around with it.

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Maybe it's a lawn fertilizer. I'd suggest starting with about 10 pounds over a few square feet.
 
JacksinPA said:
It was interesting to read that this OTC antihistamine is a deleriant. IOW, you get stoned on higher doses than the 25 mg dose that they advise on the package. Hallucinations are mentioned as one of the effects & that they might be so realistic that you might fall & injure yourself. The experience was also said to be unpleasant.

One of the surprising thing was that I had not noticed Benadryl on any lists of designer & other drugs of abuse. I'd welcome even second hand comments from those who have screwed around with it.

Getting High on Benadryl: Dangers & Risks - River Oaks

Only take Benadryl in recommended doses. Even when taken as directed, Benadryl has adverse side effects. Learn the overdose signs and symptoms.
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People need to get a job and a life..............case closed
 
I think if that were a common occurrence, hallucinating, sales would be through the roof. I've taken fifty mg on nights I can't sleep with zero side effects.
 
JacksinPA said:
It was interesting to read that this OTC antihistamine is a deleriant. IOW, you get stoned on higher doses than the 25 mg dose that they advise on the package. Hallucinations are mentioned as one of the effects & that they might be so realistic that you might fall & injure yourself. The experience was also said to be unpleasant.

One of the surprising thing was that I had not noticed Benadryl on any lists of designer & other drugs of abuse. I'd welcome even second hand comments from those who have screwed around with it.

Getting High on Benadryl: Dangers & Risks - River Oaks

Only take Benadryl in recommended doses. Even when taken as directed, Benadryl has adverse side effects. Learn the overdose signs and symptoms.
riveroakstreatment.com riveroakstreatment.com
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I don’t like hallucinations that feel real. It’s one reason I don’t smoke pot today. The new strains overpower my better sense of judgement. And that is just no fun.
 
As a result, dimenhydrinate is sometimes referred to as a “motion sickness pill.” Abuse of dimenhydrinate has been reported in research literature and most often involves oral ingestion of extremely high doses to produce euphoria, hallucinations, and sedation.

Eat a whole packet of car sickness pills and spend the next 8 hours or so watching reality bend out of shape. Spent some time one night in a room watching the traffic go by outside only to realise later there was no window in the wall I was looking at.

As for pleasant and unpleasant. You are asking someone who just spent the last few hours listening to the colour purple. Or on the other hand they might of spent the last few hours wondering why every one is looking at them. It really is a case of subjective as you can get.

If you want to understand those kind of trips then you must decide whether to take the red pill or the blue pill.
 
I take two a day; one in the morning, and one at night. During most of COVID, my allergy symptoms would have probably disqualified me from working onsite. Before benedryl, i spent a good chunk of my day sneezing and blowing my nose. I also kicked afrin, which helped. I rarely get nosebleeds now as compared to before.

As for using benedryl to get ****ed up, no.
 
Also, i should add that benedryl can cause false positives on drug tests. I've seen it happen; not to me, but to someone I'm close to who is as sober as anyone I've ever met. That particuar situation turned out fine, but it sucked at the time.
 
Um... they come in 25mg or 50mg pills, the latter being sold as sleeping pills. It's still diphenhydramine HCL. I occasionally take a sleeping pill, sometimes that, sometimes doxylamine succinate. Never had anything like a hallucination. I'd bet you'd have to go way over 25mg.

Sounds like a horrible, unpleasant idea.

At any rate, if you want to trip, get some acid, shrooms, or peyote. There's a reason those were the popular ones, and others like DXM tend to be the sort of things that teenagers desperate to get high but unable to find drugs tend up taking......
 
ecofarm said:
Maybe it's a lawn fertilizer. I'd suggest starting with about 10 pounds over a few square feet.
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For me, Benadryl has a very weird side effect: it puts me in a very irritable mood. Every time I’ve taken it, things that never bothered me before or that I never even noticed before, begin to grate on my nerves- even things like the tick tock of a pendulum clock, a neighbor mowing the lawn, etc… it’s been a very weird but always consistent effect.

Now that I know that, I try to avoid it and I always try to take the nonsedating ones like Claritin. But Benadryl is definitely stronger, and sometimes I just have to take it. When I do, I know that effect is coming. I feel the irritation rising up, acknowledge it as just a side effect of the medicine, and just ignore and shrug it off.
 
ataraxia said:
For me, Benadryl has a very weird side effect: it puts me in a very irritable mood. Every time I’ve taken it, things that never bothered me before or that I never even noticed before, begin to grate on my nerves- even things like the tick tock of a pendulum clock, a neighbor mowing the lawn, etc… it’s been a very weird but always consistent effect.

Now that I know that, I try to avoid it and I always try to take the nonsedating ones like Claritin. But Benadryl is definitely stronger, and sometimes I just have to take it. When I do, I know that effect is coming. I feel the irritation rising up, acknowledge it as just a side effect of the medicine, and just ignore and shrug it off.
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I'm lucky not to have allergies. My joke is a reference to a previous thread by the same member about "experimenting" with salt on lawn.
 
Why would anyone who's not a loser druggy, screw around with any kind of drug?
 
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