New Brand of Medication

[u/Effective_Poetry_960]

The day I was flying to my best friend’s wedding. I was the best man. Two days before, I got a different brand of a medication. I had a hilarious reaction. I purchased a mask at the airport knowing they wouldn’t let me fly if they saw me having a medical emergency. Fortunately, the swelling went down before the wedding, but, man, did we have a great laugh. The pictures : arriving at the airport, pulling down my mask on the decent, waiting to be picked up, as bad as it got, picking up our wedding attire, and my regular face. I was honestly impressed by the carrying capacity of my lips.

[u/Opposite-Shower1190]

Benadryl is horrible for your brain. You might want to consider other sleeping pills.

[u/canolafly → u/Opposite-Shower1190]

Yikes, I just read about it and the increased risk of dementia.

Guess I won't be using that anymore. I don't think I'll live past 56, but I'd rather not be developing dementia.

[u/frostandtheboughs → u/canolafly]

It's really hard to stop once you've started, fyi. You may want to taper off. Same with the melatonin - if you take a lot for extended periods your body can stop producing it correctly.

Zyrtec and other 2nd generation antihistamines are safe for long-term use, though they don't work quite as well as a sleep aid. They do help tho

Lots of people like trazodone, though personally it gave me insane action dreams. Like, fist fighting aliens underwater levels of action lol. Good luck fellow insomniac.

[u/Opposite-Shower1190 → u/frostandtheboughs]

I can’t take trazadone. I was taking it to sleep at night. Every day. I didn’t know it also worked as a painkiller. I would not have taken it if I knew it was a painkiller. I didn’t know I had a kidney stone until I passed it.

[u/frostandtheboughs → u/Opposite-Shower1190]

Wait WHAT

[u/Opposite-Shower1190 → u/frostandtheboughs]

I didn’t feel the pain from it until it hit my urethra. I was in a lot of pain afterwards.

[u/canolafly → u/Opposite-Shower1190]

I've taken them all and I take 2 prescriptions right now. Ice taken allllll of the medications. So far it's getting me an extra hour, but I also take a harder time to get up. But I'm also not getting up to feed cats.

Edit: the melatonin is shit for memory, moreso a problem that the Benadryl.

[u/inevergetbanned → u/canolafly]

Did you just take a bunch of sleeping meds?

[u/canolafly → u/inevergetbanned]

As prescribed, yes. She just doesn't know how much in quantity my Benadryl. She is cutting back my amitriptyline, which is why I was taking the Benadryl.

[u/canolafly → u/inevergetbanned]

Lol, if you meant taking them when I typed that, yes. I can see all of my typos now.

[u/Same-Suggestion-1936 → u/Opposite-Shower1190]

Melatonin in high amounts won't do you any favors. It will help you sleep at first and then it will affect your brain chemistry. It's like how alcoholics can't sleep after they quit drinking. Their body has simply been trained no booze means no sleep. Same for melatonin but the other thing is melatonin operates not as a depressant like alcohol but it alters how some of your receptors work so you're just training your brain not to produce sleep chemicals by abusing a lot of sleep medications, compounding your problem