My experience with Benadryl

[Green Dot]

Yesterday I took half a 25mg tablet and I felt it pretty potently. I'm still feeling different from it, as in, I feel nostalgic, grounded, feels like I'm a child again. Now it isn't all rainbows and sunshine because I also feel "powerless" with a hole in my chest." I'm certain I developed learned helplessness from a very strict environment and I'm just noticing how much I was engulfed in it.

 

[Makrosky]

Yesterday I took half a 25mg tablet and I felt it pretty potently. I'm still feeling different from it, as in, I feel nostalgic, grounded, feels like I'm a child again. Now it isn't all rainbows and sunshine because I also feel "powerless" with a hole in my chest." I'm certain I developed learned helplessness from a very strict environment and I'm just noticing how much I was engulfed in it.

I like benadryl before sleep a lot. Discovered it by chance 2 months ago and it is a staple on my medicine kit now. Using it 2 nights in a row and resets quite well sleep and stress cycles. And without weird mental effects like cypro.

 

[Kykeon]

i took benadryl last night (diphenhydramine) and i feel really, really good today. 25 mg. I slept very good, and my mood is greatly increased. The effect is very profound and i wonder what the main mechanism is? I had some weird visual effects before i slept and got startled from falling asleep (hard to describe, i entered the almost sleeping state and then got fearful happened twice)
I think it really helped me getting to deep sleep, feeling refreshed and rested, my usual adhd symptoms are decreased and basal optimism has increased. I feel a mild, very pleasant euphoria, while the last days were always accustomed by a feeling of dread, angst, and hopelessness, and always very "directed" and "stiff" thinking. either getting energie through cortisol or adrenaline i think. Sometimes i was able to get out of this state, but it was always creeping back.

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I guess i have some problems with excess cholinergic activity. Really eye opening how impactful this was.
Edit:
I just took my temperature, and it has increased slightly, i also feel warm.

 

[Bluemachine]

Do any of you have experience with cetirizine to compare?
When I tried that I had horrible fatigue the following couple of days and then an episode of m mushroom level derealism - put me off antihistamines a little

 

[Kykeon]

Do any of you have experience with cetirizine to compare?
When I tried that I had horrible fatigue the following couple of days and then an episode of m mushroom level derealism - put me off antihistamines a little

no experience with cetirizine but doxylamine succinate made me tired the next day.

 

[Bluemachine]

Tried diphenhydramine for the first time - half a 25mg tablet, definitely had a positive effect on mood, lowered some stress. Didn't have the intense next day fatigue I had with cetirizine. Alleviated some stomach distress I've been having recently. Feel a little flat & depressed the following evening though <- anyone else experienced this?

How often do you guys dose this stuff? Just when feeling malaise that you think it could remedy?

 

[Green Dot]

How often do you guys dose this stuff? Just when feeling malaise that you think it could remedy?

Most use it as a sleeping aid, so probably around the regular dose of <25mg. At a certain dose it becomes serotonergic though, IIRC