Come get your Leprecons shirts
March 8th, 2008 by gambit32
St. Pats only comes once a year
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Some pharmacists are useless: Don’t Double Up on Diphenhydramine
March 3rd, 2008 by gambit32
I wasn’t able to get a hold of my doctor for 5 minutes of advice on the phone today
“Oh, you’d need to come in for anything like that. We don’t do that over the phone.”
“I live an hour away and I just told you I haven’t been able to sleep since Saturday. I don’t want to be driving a car in this condition.”
.. awkward pause ..
“Fine. Ill see if I can get a ride” ::CLICK::
I can’t get a ride. I know that. I wanted 5 minutes for an OTC recommendation.
I called the pharmacist instead, asked for advice on something OTC as a sleep aid. They know me there, its a small town. Nytol didnt work last night so I was looking for something different to try. I refuse to take the Ambien I have due to some rather awful side effects.
I know one guy who ended up out on his roof yelling into the night, and another whose family had to lock in a closet because they couldn’t wake him up to convince him it was a dream, and he kept trying to escape.
Yeah. I don’t feel like dealing with that since I don’t have anyone to pull me from the roof, throw me in a closet, and barricade it until I come to.
The pharmacist recommends Benadryl. “The Nytol and things like that are better are keeping you asleep and making it quality sleep, but the Benadryl will help get you there.” Ok, I can believe that. I’ve seen it knock someone on their ass in 20 minutes.
Check the packaging as I go to wash it down..
Its diphenhydramine. Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride. I had to dig in the trash to find my Nytol packaging to double-check.
25Mg in Benadryl, 25Mg in Nytol/Sominex. The Benadryl markets it as an antihistamine, the Nytol as a nighttime sleep aid.
So…
If you’re looking to save money and don’t want to buy name-brand prices for Sominex, go look in the allergy aisle and check the generics.
If you looking for a sleep aid and are also on allergy medicine, check the active ingredients.
Otherwise, hit me up on AIM and we can talk generics and hope it puts us BOTH to sleep before sunrise.
Tags: ambien, benadryl, Diphenhydramine, Diphenhydramine hydrochloride, generic drugs, nytol, pharmacy, sominex