Diphenhydramine/Benadryl

So I've heard a few times that taking high doses of benadryl will cause halucinations etc etc. I can't find really any information on this, maybe you guys will know.

So Diphenhydramine is an Antihistamine, so wouldn't it be bad to take like 100+mg of this? I thought I read somewhere that Antihistamines are bad to abuse but I'm not positive! Has anyone here abused Benadryl before like you would with DXM containing products? The only active ingrediant in this box is the Diphenhydramine, so I don't know. Can someone help me out here?


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I hear people have some good experiences with this stuff, don't tell me no because some of your worse fears come out this way. I want to try it for the hallucinations, I love hallucinations, mainly good ones but it all depends on what they are. I just would like to know if its lethal at higher doses. I just found a box of Sominex, it's a sleeping aid with just Diphenhydramine as an active ingrediant so I'll try that tonight. God please, let me wake up!

 

No. Do some reading and some more research first. Delirants like Diphenhydramine are no where near pleasant to hallucinate from. It just doesn't feel good, it actually feels pretty horrible if you ask me. You will be delirious, have a hard time knowing what is real and what is a hallucination (this state can get you into a lot of trouble, I'm very serious... read some more trip reports) and you probably will have a hard time recalling a lot of it once its over.

Im very serious. Do some more research. It isn't just that "some of your worst fears come out"... that is the least of your worries.

Some people have to learn the hard way... don't be one of them.

 

Well I did some digging, found more stories and have only one question, why is this any different than DXM? Like I never hear of emergancy trips with DXM?

 

http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs11/11563/index.htm

 

So really, all that link told me is that there are dangers in certain ingrediant combos with DXM. I already know this, I have tried "robotripping" and when I do it I know to only use DXM only products. You can't really OD on DXM, I suppose my previous question was dumb because DXM and Diphenhydramine are two different ingrediants (duh), but when abused they have 2 different effects.

 

Yes, DXM is a dissociative while diphenhydramine is anticholergenic.

High doses of DXM cause dissociation. High dissociation leads to things like out of body experiences, hallicinations, etc. While under the influence of heavy doses of DXM, most people don't move around much... so it's sorta self limiting... its considerably safer in that regard.

Diphenhydramine is another story. High doses cause a delirum... kind of similiar to what happens when you get a really high fever (if you've ever had one). Hallicinations are very real... to the point where you cannot tell what is real anymore. You body is pretty much free to move around and do whatever the hell it wants... which is a dangerous thing considering the intensity and types of hallucinations that occur while delirous. It's not safe, and as I mentioned before it also feels pretty horrible (to me). Side effects often include (From wikipedia):

Really, its not fun at all. Very few people find that they want use it recreationally... most people won't go anywhere near it again after they try it the first time.

 

You will hallucinate and feel "stuck" going in and out ect.. My personal opinon is dont take alot of unisoms/benadryl. The effects are not that pleasent and can do real harm to your body. But if you do, BE SMART DONT OD

 

Don't do it. I know lots of people who have and I'd say 4 out of 5 have had awful, near death experiences and came out of it somewhat traumatized, or not feeling "normal" months after. Not to mention it's much more dangerous in high doses than DXM.

 

Alright, thank you everyone for the helpful responses. I suppose I wont try this out, expecially because I'm alone and that'd be even worse.

 

Glad you have reconsidered.

If you really want to see just how bad it can get on delirants, then you should read through some of the trip reports on erowid in the datura experiences vault .

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Datura.shtml

 

unless ur looking for seizures and bad times id stay away

 

Yeah, I'm going to just stick with DXM.

Looking for trippy stuff untill acid flow is normal lol.

 

Don't leave just yet. I've done it multiple times at lower doses and at lower doses it's fine. I weigh 145 and small dosages that only give you minor hallucinations and a body high is great! Like everyone else said though, learn your dosing. And don't over do it! *shivers*

 

ugh... can't say dipenhydramine is always bad, but you realllly need to watch your dose.

at 75-150mg it's pretty nice- sedating, and orgasms are great at this dose.

but last night i made the mistake of going up to 250mg. i can say it was one of the most horrible nights of my life- it's about as fun as having an awful flu. my legs got so weak i couldn't walk, and i had an extreme dysphoria that's lasted through today. it pretty much felt like i was extremely ill and delerious... i couldn't lie down without coming close to a panic attack, and it was terrifying to even leave my bed to use the bathroom.

it's not a bad drug, just never go above 175mg or so, maybe even less- things get fucked up. i'm really hoping i'll get back to feeling normal soon(though it's obviously not as intense as i felt last night) but it's extremely unpleasant.

 

One of the times I tripped on benadry, I looked in the mirror and saw myself with a white face (like clown makeup), with blood dripping out of empty eye sockets, dead serious. The weird things is, my experience matched about million others to the TEE. Benadryl is bizarre in that alot of people experience almost the exact same thing during their trips... shadow people, bugs (spiders, ants), having long, detailed conversations with people who are not there, voices, etc. It really exposes people to hell on Earth, and its eerie how everybody's trip is so similiar, unlike acid or phenethylamines for example. Now just add to the fact that you think everything that I stated above is real, and there is no reason for anybody to want and do this drug. And if that doesn't keep you away, the terrible week/month long hangover-type feelings will.

 

I tripped on benadryl once like 6 years ago and omg, i saw the shadow people! and the spiders, as well as leprachauns sitting on the trees! Thats all I remember before I blacked out lol.

 

yeah those shadow people are fuckin creepy, there's a really demonic kinda feeling to them, at least from what it seemd like to me, it's a really evil type of drug on high doses. Another thing that was common were swirling blue fingerprint lookin patterns and clear wavy lines swirling about, though they were not apart of evey trip, they were apart of a good amount. You can see all the similiarities between trips if u read the erowid experience section on Benadryl/Diphenhydramine.

 

I took 500mg of this once and got an interesting body high. Made me feel really warm and while I was on it I didn't think it effected me cognitively much. I did hallucinate though. I was sitting in my room watching TV and I glanced over at the chair next to me only to see my friend Lucy sitting in it. I did a double take and she was gone...at the time this did not seem out of the ordinary. At one point I thought the room was filled with about 6 of my friends all laughing and having a good time, a moment later they were all gone. Overall it was mostly a neutral experience for me as I have only tried it once and that was over 1 year ago.

 

Ditto, I can almost guarantee that if that guy does it he wil feel like complete ass and just want to sleep it off.

Then you wake up feeling like complete ass the whole day.

 

Takes a certain kind of person to wake up feeling dumb after something like that.