BENADRYL Reviews (DIPHENHYDRAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.9 (608 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare BENADRYL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR BENADRYL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | allergy and sleep agent | extreme drowsiness | i started taking this for allergies, but during the day i couldn't stay awake. when i started suffering from insomnia, i took this and have not experienced insomnia since. | M | 37 | | 4/25/2001 | 2 | Allergic reaction to a mosquito bit | Zonked out 2 hours after at 6.30pm until 5am. Feel tense on waking | My mosquito bite went down a bit. | F | 40 | 1 days | 7/20/2001 | 4 | Chronic Sinus | nil | First proper nights sleep I have had in over 6 months. Also 1st day I have not gone through a box of tissues. | F | 46 | 2 days | 8/23/2001 | 5 | Night Waking | My daughter was prescribed to take it every night before bed for sleeping problems. It has helped immensely by calming her down. | F | 2 | 2 months | 2/21/2002 | 4 | Sleeping Aid | Ringing & buzzing ears | F | 63 | 2 weeks | 2/26/2002 | 5 | congestion and insomnia | I really don't have any side effects yet that I know of. | F | 51 | 2 times | 3/17/2002 | 5 | congestion and insomnia | I really don't have any side effects yet that I know of. | F | 51 | 2 years | 3/17/2002 | 3 | hay fever | night waking and insomnia, increased the longer I took it | F | 30 | 30 days | 3/27/2002 | 1 | Allergic Reaction to Mosquito bite | Sleepiness and inability to get or maintain an erection | M | 27 | 5 days | 3/31/2002 | 5 | Seasonal Allergies | None if taken properly. If I take it before symptons occur, I won't get drowsy. If I take it while showing symptoms (sneezing/watery eye, etc.), I'll get drowsy. | Some differences in name-brand and generic. Generic show less drowsyness than name-brand. | M | 29 | 4 months | 4/24/2002 | 2 | Allergies | Insomnia, tenseness | I'll never take it agains too many bad sideaffects for me. | M | 26 | 1 days | 4/24/2002 | 3 | allergies, cold | It makes me sleepy, and if the full dose is taken at bedtime I awake with a sort of hangover sluggishness, sometimes accompanied by jitteriness. I am wondering if it is what is now disrupting my sleep, as I have raised the dosage. | I deal with the day to day sleepy side effect by getting the children's size chewable tablets and biting them in half. If I take the two halves 30 minutes or more apart, the sleepiness is not a problem. Recently I started taking the full adult dosage at night for a cold, and have found it very difficult to go to sleep, and stay asleep once I get there. Still, on the whole, it works better, and lacks the awful side effects of the prescription stuff like Claritin, Allegra, Zyrtec. | F | 46 | 6 years | 5/23/2002 | 3 | Allergies | I took it at about 11:30 a.m. and by 13:30 I could hardly stay awake. I felt light headed and extremely tired. | It works on the Allergies faily well, but the tiredness that comes with it was very exteme. | M | 25 | 3 days | 6/3/2002 | 5 | seasonal allergies | drymouth and sedation | A very good Otc antihistamine. The dose related drowsiness and sedation may be too hard to handle for some people. | M | 23 | 5 months | 6/20/2002 | 1 | HayFever | Extreme Drowsiness, Sleepiness, Dry Mouth, imparied judgement, blurred vision. | Tried this for about 3 years for a few months of each year. I minimally helped reduce symtoms, but not enough to be usable. The side effect of sleepiness was welcome, as it's difficult to get to sleep with nose swollen shut. I sometimes felt that Benadryl was a better sleep medication then allergy medice. Eyesight tended to get blurred the longer it was used, and main reason i stoped using it. | M | 37 | 1 months | 6/20/2002 | 1 | Hay Fever | My dad has been taking it for about a fortnight. A couple of nights ago he asked me the same question twice in the space of about 5 minutes, something I put down to not hearing me the first time. This morning he has woken up with almost total memory loss and is saying he feels like he's gone back 10 years. | I (his son) would never touch this with a barge pole. | M | 58 | 14 days | 7/12/2002 | 1 | pain in sinus - allergy | The doctor recommended Benadryl for sinus pain--one tablet a day taken at night. I also take Ambien (a sleeping pill) and doctor was aware of this. After two weeks I began to have trouble remembering words and slowing of thought process. Probably it was the combination of the two drugs. Think twice before adding Benadryl on a regular basis when you are taking a sleeping pill or sedative. This was a scary experience. It did help my sinus pain, but definitely a no-no for me! | F | 67 | 2 weeks | 8/19/2002 | 5 | INSOMNIA | NONE | I had suffered from insomnia on & off for almost 2 years when I asked my pharmacist for advice... (my DR. was stupid and tried anti-depressants that only made sleeping more difficult). My pharmacist recommended benadryl and I have been sleeping okay for about a year!!! | M | 19 | 13 months | 9/6/2002 | 4 | Fever/Sinus Headache | not able to sleep more then 3 hours without waking up. loss of appitite. | take 3 Benadryl Maximum Strenght right before bed and you will wake up without any sinus headache | M | 19 | 2 weeks | 9/10/2002 | 2 | hay fever - ragweed | While it seemed to help my hay fever somewhat, on more than one occasion it has made me very irritable. At it's worst, it seemed to make my mind race nearly out of control, hindering both daytime performance and sleep. | M | 42 | 3 days | 9/16/2002 |