I tell my methadone doc i have nausea and itching so bad that even morphine IV'd caused me less itching/urticaria. So he scripts me 50mg hydroxyzine little balls, i don't know how to describe them, small red paintball ammo? heh, all I know is that we don't have vistaril up here, which is the poaomate salt while Atarax is the hcl ?
Anyway, 50-75mg of hydroxyzine makes me feel my methadone hardcore and when i'm out of my script, promethazine is available over the counter in canadia, not all carry it, in fact i only know one chain who sells it around where I live. 50mg, they dont even have 25mg ones anymore they are discontinued lol. and the pricing changed, no matter what amount you buy it's 9,99 with no tax.
So yeah, Atarax and Histantil (promethazine's otc name here) are way up there. Benadryl or even worse dramamine do fuck all.
And to people who keep saying potentiation doesn't work because they do it the wrong (tagamet, grapefruitjuice...that stuff is much better with benzos), do you know about Mephergan? My grandmother takes it from her various oldage illnesses. It's demerol + promethazine in a pill. When they came out junkies like those pills more than anything else.