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 |
| 1 | to counter act a drug I was allergi | I was given Benadryl to counter act an antibiotic that I was allergic to. I was given an IV for both. AS soon as it hit my blood stream my whole body stopped working. I could not speak or move any part of my body. I was aware of what was going on around me but could not answer the doctor. The nurse was quick to react and pull the IVs out. It took me over an hour to be able to speak and move. | F | 45 | 1X day | 3/17/2016 | 2 | Sleep Aid | Weakness, Shakiness, Slurred Speech, Blurred Vision, Agitation, Sweating, Insomnia, Excitability, Headache, Low Blood Sugar and Anxiety (Mild-Severe) | These are the major symptoms I've come to deal with over the time I've been taking it. | M | 22 | 2 years 200mg | 3/9/2016 | 1 | Allergies | I have anxiety and at first it calmed me down a little bit but the next day I felt exhausted and had periods of rage. Everything was annoying me. Constant irritability and I kept yelling at everyone. It feels like an anger you can't control almost as if you are in a fog.... Won't be taking it again. | F | 30 | 1 days .25 mg | 2/20/2016 | 1 | At home | I've experienced heart palpitations, weaknes, jittery in sleep, heavy chest an the next day extreme fatigue an just out of it it gave me axiety an my dr. Says to take this for anxiety an insomnia. But I wouldn't recommend this to my worse enemy! An if I get up are lift anything it makes my heart beat fast. This is just a horrible drug to take | This is the last resort over the counter medicine to take!! | F | 34 | 1 days 25 mg | 2/9/2016 | 1 | Dizziness, Earache, Headache | immediate strong stomach pain, agitation, anxiety, feeling detached from body, extreme sleepiness. Next day, body numbness, panic attack, heart racing, dizziness (ironic?) more agitation, everything dried out (eyes, mouth, nose etc...) chest heaviness, metallic taste in mouth. trouble concentrating, pain, Just feeling downright awful. | I was given benadryl through iv at the ER for dizziness, ear Infection, headache & chest pain! Our ER Dr's are idiots anyway! I will politely decline if they ever try to give me this again! I dispute the comment about people with anxiety will find problems with sugar pills. Just because people have anxiety doesn't mean that they are stupid and can't differentiate between anxiety symptoms and symptoms related to medications and other reasons. I am so sick of people with anxiety being treated like idiots because of a disease that NONE of chose to have. There are usually reason that people have anxiety. EG.. ptsd, depression etc.. Which usually comes down to extremely bad things happening in a persons life. Like me for instance, I was robbed at gunpoint, beaten by an ex husband and just had a very bad car accident where a dump truck landed on our car and dumped thousands of quarry rocks on top of us as well. I also came very close to losing My Moma in that accident. Praise God I didn't! Then lost my Dad a few months ago and now My Brother having had open heart surgery at the age of 47 and now waiting for a pace maker and defibrillator. These are the reasons people have these issues! Not because We choose to have it! We would do almost anything to live normally! And we aren't idiots, we can distinguish the difference in our anxiety issues and other medical issues! So don't judge! You never know what has happened in someones life to cause these problems! "Judge not | F | 38 | 1 days 50 mg iv 1X day | 1/19/2016 | 3 | Allergic reaction/sleep aid | dizziness after waking up, uncontrollable jitters, irritability, confusion, anxiety | Took it at first to possibly help clear up a rash help me sleep without waking up itchy. It put me to sleep easily, but if I happened to wake up at all during the night I would feel extremely dizzy, confused for no reason and uncomfortable, like I just had to move and shift myself around. I felt like crying it was so uncomfrtable and I couldn't fall back asleep for a good little while. Closing my eyes made me feel even worse. I still take this stuff sometimes but its definitely not something I like to use a lot | F | 18 | 3 days 50mg | 1/16/2016 | 1 | Allergies, sleep | Benadryl makes me very angry and irritable even the next day after taking it I feel angry and depressed all day. Can't take it. | F | 30 | 5 days 25 mg | 12/27/2015 | 2 | Sleep Aid | Heavy/tingly feeling in limbs, pounding headache, heart racing | F | 14 | 1 days | 12/7/2015 | 5 | cold stuffy nose | none; just helped my child to breathe better and get to sleep for 2 nights while he had a cold. | I split the pill so it was only 12.5 mg instead of 25mg. The dosage instructions say that a 6-12 year old can take 25 mg but I know that it is pretty strong stuff, so I split the pill and it worked great! He was able to breathe, stop sniffling, and fell asleep within 15 minutes or so. | M | 9 | 2 days 12.5 mg 1X day | 11/30/2015 | 5 | Allergies to sunlight,and 50+foods | F | 44 | 17 years 25 3X day | 11/28/2015 | 4 | As a cheap alternative for sleeping | I have to pee literally every 5 to 10 mins. I finally fall asleep, but get up almost 10 times to pee within the first hour I am asleep. Some nights are worse than others obviously, but this indefinitely happens on a nightly basis. | Works well for an OTC sleeping pill. | F | 31 | 5 years 5-6 50MG | 11/27/2015 | 5 | Insomnia | Dry nasal, sleepiness (which is what I wanted, so not complaining) Sometimes if taken too much I get a small stomach ache which is easily fixed by grabbing something to eat. Which is good because a lot of the times I forget to eat due to my depression. | I personally love Benadryl. I have terrible insomnia, to the point where I will be awake for days before crashing for a few hours. My body doesn't have an off button it seems. The only down side to this is my nose sometimes gets very dry and the stomach pains. Also, after taking a certain amount (say 3 pills) for an extended period of time I become use to it and have to up the dosage. The highest I've gone would be 7 pills.(175mg) but this is easily fixed by stopping for a few days then returning to a smaller dose. Even though this shouldn't be used for long term use it is the only thing to help me sleep. The medications my doctors had prescribed me made me groggy and forgetful. So forgetful that I couldn't remember anything I did during the day. | F | 19 | 4 years | 11/19/2015 | 1 | trying to dry out eustacian tubes | I was trying to dry out my ears because of a popped ear from having a cold. Took two pills 2 days ago. Within an hour went to sleep. Woke up heart racing and dizzy. Have been dizzy on and off (mostly on) for more than 2 days now. | I will never take this drug for anything ever again. | M | 43 | 1 times 50 1X day | 11/7/2015 | 3 | To feel good | Extremely tired, vision blur, dry mouth, twitching legs, itchy skin, itchy scalp, uncomfortable, forgetfulness, racing heart, chest pains, arm pains, blotchy skin, dull skin, tingling fingers, confusion, slowed speech, slow walk, | I had some good sleep at the end of the day so it was somewhat helpful. | F | 15 | 1 days 400 mg | 10/14/2015 | 3 | Allergic reaction | Extreme stomach pain | It worked for my allergic reaction but ive had stomach pains for over 12 hours. | M | 14 | 1 days 2 pills | 10/10/2015 | 1 | Took for help sleeping | Sweating, heightened anxiety, heart palpitations, racing heart, and extreme fear. I would not recommend if you have anxiety, felt like my heart was going to stop everytime I closed my eyes. Considering this is a 1st generation antihistamine, i'm not surprised. Don;t take this if you don't have to! | M | 18 | 1 days 50 mg 1X day | 9/24/2015 | 1 | Wasp stings | Thank heavens I found this website! I was stung several times by wasps. Went to ER, prescribed 50mgs 3x daily. I literally felt my heart beating out of my chest. So hard it was painful. Had severe anxiety attacks, irrational fears of going insane. I am on my third day off. As soon as I stopped very painful diarrhea began. My stomach hurts so much at times I feel like I could vomit. I was agitated and awake one entire night. But this was scary, like it wanted to go the hospital to make it stop. Chills. Awful. I have taken lots of meds this truly scared the hell out of me. | Never ever again. Have epipen. | F | 48 | 5 days 50 mg 3x d | 8/29/2015 | 1 | Insomnia | EXTREME anxiety, paranoia, restless legs, aching joints, uncontrollable twitches, racing heart, tremors, and irrational fear. I'd taken this for insomnia before and was fine and worked great! No problems but the last 2 days have been hell. I feel like I'm going insane! feel like I can't breath deeply or get enough air into my lungs. A paranoid hyper awareness that goes hand in hand with the irrational fear of death that has never been present before. | Never ever ever again. | F | 26 | 3 days 50 mg | 8/28/2015 | 1 | Sinus congestion | Insomnia, restless leg syndrome, dry mouth | Unable to sleep all night from RLS and insomnia. These two symptoms in turn lead to anxiety, agitation, frustration. Completely ruined next day. Symptoms lasted for 8 hours. | F | 48 | 1 days 50mg | 8/18/2015 | 1 | sinuses, insomnia | Severe anxiety, depression, hopelessness, irrational fears, upset stomache | I took it every night for post nasal drip and to help me sleep. It worked great for that. After several months I developed severe anxiety, depression, hopelessness, irrational fears, upset stomach. Thank goodness I had enough sense to read about others' experiences on this website and stopped it. After 2 days I was fine! | F | 58 | 5 months 30 mg 1X day | 8/14/2015 |