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Best antihistamine available OTC in the UK

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Dr Dick M. Young

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Good day everyone,

I would like to know what everyone thinks the most effective antihistamine is that's available over the counter in the UK. I am interested in an antihistamine to combat the itches when using opioids.

I am currently using cetirizine 10mg tablets. It says to take one a day but that's never enough so sometimes I take three a day. As an aside, is this particularly unhealthy? Does anyone know if it has a high load on the kidneys or liver or similar?

Anyway, I sometimes use Nytol (or a generic version) as it contains diphenhydramine which I've heard is quite effective. Unfortunately, diphenhydramine makes this fine doctor a little tired but I guess that's to be expected as it is marketed as a sleep aid. I've also found it results in mild hallucinations/deleria when taken to excess. Not a huge excess, one or two times the recommended dosage.

I only really use antihsitamines for opoioid use which means I don't take the antihistamines everyday like I would for hayfever. Does this reduce its efficacy? I've heard that a level of anthistaminery needs to build up in one's blood supply for them to be fully effective.

Please help me stop itching.
 
Phenergan. It potentiates too. Though some places you can get some snot who says they don't sell it (when I know they've sold it to me before). Can go online to any chemist and get it though. :)
 
As far as I know that's it's on label use. Tel them the Dr has tod you need it as a sleep aid. You can get it at boots or llyods.
 
Trotsy'sEarBleed said:
As far as I know that's it's on label use. Tel them the Dr has tod you need it as a sleep aid. You can get it at boots or llyods.
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They won't sell it to you if you tell them you're taking it for anything other than allergy relief. Saying "My doctor said..." won't wash - you'll need a prescription.
 
Phenergan is a trade name for proethazine. It's also in Night Nurse liquid and capsules (10 mg.promethazine + 7.5 mg dextromethorphan HBr + 500 mg.paracetamol per gel cap / 10 ml. liquid) and also marketed under the name Sominex as a sleep aid (25 mg).
 
Just ask for Sominex.

Not Phenergan, cus yeah some places won't give you Phenergen even though its the same thing.
 
In my experience, it all depends on who you get behind the till. Got it plenty of times with my 'Dr told me it can be a good sleep aid. Only had it refused once but they got to know me. Whatever path you choose to use godspeed and good luck.
 
Opiate itching is VERY common, even taking anti-histamines might not help(sure as hell doesn't for me).

As for ways to combat the nausea I would recommend Cannabis, Dextromethorphan(legal drug found in cough medicines, even proper doses does wonders) and Diphenhydramine. Yes, in that order.

Be warned, all 3 of these may enhance your high (which can be overwhelming) or even make your nausea worst.

Try eating a little food before dosing and stay hydrated.
 
Cuhpcakes said:
Try eating a little food before dosing and stay hydrated.
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Hello Original Poster.

In my recently self-appointed position as EADD Harm Reduction Czar, I would very much like to take this opportunity to point out that heroin use is instrinsically unhealthy & unsafe. An unfortunate percentage of heroin users end up either hopelessly addicted to the drug, or in the worst cases, dead from accidental overdose. Apart from the post above, not one of the users of this HR website made an effort to advise you to give up the drug or at the very least, try to curtail your use of it. I however have no such compunction, simply because EADD has lost a number of our users to heroin this year.

Obviously, despite the fact that heroin is illegal, you are free to choose to use it. But if you wish to post about in at a Harm Reduction website such as this, I hope you'll forgive me for being concerned for your long-term health &, ultimately, your life. As far as I am aware, ono-one has yet died of itching, so I might ask those inclined to reply to threads such as this in future to consider offering some advise that might help a user of dangerous drugs such as heroin to reduce their consumption in the most polite way possible.

Even if heroin were legal there would still be inumerable risks associated with it's use & I personally feel that this message is disapointingly absent in EADD these days. I am not trying to tell anyone what to do with their lives, I am only hoping to point out that some activities (horse riding for instance) are more dangerous than others.

Thanks for the time you took to read my crap,

All the best :)
 
Si Ingwe said:
Hello Original Poster.

In my recently self-appointed position as EADD Harm Reduction Czar, I would very much like to take this opportunity to point out that heroin use is instrinsically unhealthy & unsafe. An unfortunate percentage of heroin users end up either hopelessly addicted to the drug, or in the worst cases, dead from accidental overdose. Apart from the post above, not one of the users of this HR website made an effort to advise you to give up the drug or at the very least, try to curtail your use of it. I however have no such compunction, simply because EADD has lost a number of our users to heroin this year.

Obviously, despite the fact that heroin is illegal, you are free to choose to use it. But if you wish to post about in at a Harm Reduction website such as this, I hope you'll forgive me for being concerned for your long-term health &, ultimately, your life. As far as I am aware, ono-one has yet died of itching, so I might ask those inclined to reply to threads such as this in future to consider offering some advise that might help a user of dangerous drugs such as heroin to reduce their consumption in the most polite way possible.

Even if heroin were legal there would still be inumerable risks associated with it's use & I personally feel that this message is disapointingly absent in EADD these days. I am not trying to tell anyone what to do with their lives, I am only hoping to point out that some activities (horse riding for instance) are more dangerous than others.

Thanks for the time you took to read my crap,

All the best :)
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Does the OP even mention heroin? :?
 
As other have said, phenergan/promethazine is hands down the bets one imo. I use it every week or so to help with nausea from my script, and years ago i used to use it to potentiate opiates.
But its also relatively good as a sleep aid (and completely non addictive and non habit forming), great for nausea & travel sickness, and v good for itchyness etc
 
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