Looked into it. This isn’t what I thought it was. They aren’t looking to ban sudafed where the active ingredient is pseudoephedrine, which is the stuff that actually works that you have to scan your drivers license at the pharmacy counter to buy, it’s the over the counter kind where the active ingredient is phenylephrine which, the FDA unfortunately is right, literally doesn’t work for shit. My wife and I learned this a long time ago. If you can buy it without a drivers license honestly I couldn’t care less if they ban it because I honestly don’t know what it even does. But the good stuff that you need a drivers license to buy apparently isn’t going anywhere so we can probably put our pitchforks down on this particular issue at least.
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Benadryl is essentially a sleeping pill. Not sure the point of it for allergies honestly. Yay my allergies are gone but I’m asleep now so who cares?
It's an antihistamine
If you fall asleep, I'd think you'd eventually wake up.
I mean it's not like getting hit over the head with a sledgehammer. I've taken it during work
For me it was much closer to the sledgehammer.
If I take 2 it's bad. But I can do 1
I can’t take it. It makes me sleep within 30 mins.
Same. First time I ever took it I nearly crashed my car driving home. It’s chemically almost identical to Unisom, a sleeping pill.
The tiredness lasts into the next day for me, too.
What if I told you that being unable to sleep is a major problem with bad allergies?
Also, causing you to feel sleepy is a SIDE EFFECT, not the goal. It is a side effect that has now been leaned into a bit (wonder why that is, considering it's not good for you.) It is partially because it is a gen 1 antihistamine that crosses the blood brain barrier, which gen 2s do not.
Benadryl is also not that great for your brain in the long term as a result, but second gen antihistamines aren't as effective -- but don't make you tired nor cross the blood brain barrier, making them more usable for the average person.
Just because you can't figure out the value in something (or overvalue something else) is not anyone else's problem but yours.
Also, I have had just fine results using the current formula for this use case.
Sucking the teat of the same people who dug through your mail to stop you from getting HCQ and Ivermectin is really weird and I do expect better.
Huh? All I’m saying is this isn’t what I thought it was. They’re not banning the effective drug. I don’t think they should be able to ban anything but at least the thing they’re banning isn’t the drug I actually know works.
"Don't Make Any Plans" - Dennis Leary.
Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) is an antihistamine. It works very well for seasonal allergies (for 4-6 hours that it's active). It also makes you drowsy. As a sleep aid, I'm not a huge fan of it. It works. It'll help you get to sleep, but your body will habituate to it after 3-5 days or so, so you'll find it's less effective if you want to rely on it daily. If you have that kind of a problem, you need a better drug from a doctor.
If you're having seasonal allergies, the second generation antihistamines are a better option. That's Claritin, Allegra, Zyrtec, Xyzal. 24 hours of effect, minimal drowsiness. Save the Benadryl for allergic reactions to bug bites/stings, rashes, etc.
If you're taking other medications or plan on partying, you'll want to talk to a white coat about it too, because it will interact with certain other drugs and substances in bad ways and you should know what those risks are. Combining it with alcohol or Xanax or plenty of other common things could be a problem.