cmustelin
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I'll start by saying that I took 1250 mg diphenhydramine as a suicide attempt a while ago, and it was the most TERRIFYING experience. Absolutely do not recommend- especially that high of a dosage. With that in mind, here's what happened:
I took the pills (50 mg x 25) around 3 pm and was taken to the ER after maybe 45 min. My hands started getting tingly and my mouth was parched, but that could have been the anxiety of realizing "oh wait, maybe I shouldn't have done that". By the time I got to the hospital, I started feeling very strange. What started as a very slight buzz in my chest turned into a weird dream-like experience, and as they were wheeling me into the ER I was in a semi-dissociative state. I was completely convinced it was a dream. I found it very hard to put together sentences or even remember how to talk, which only got worse. A nurse helped me undress in this small bathroom and I found it incredibly hard to stand up because gravity felt 100 times stronger than normal and I was very unsteady. They also wanted me to give a urine sample but I wasn't able. Then I went back to the bed and they gave me lorazepam to calm me down as they asked me millions of questions. I started getting overwhelmed because I was literally incapable of thinking coherently, so I ended up begging for them to leave me alone. They also gave me a vomit bag, which made me freak out because I have a horrible fear of vomiting (RIP). My mouth only got dryer and dryer too which was really annoying.
By this point I felt almost drunk, and whenever I tried to speak it sounded like my voice wasn't even my own and I was not in control of it. I was very tachycardic (~160-170 bpm) but again that was also probably worsened by the anxiety. The lorazepam finally kicked in and I got sleepy-ish. Then for the next several hours, I progressed into a very strange surreal state where time seemed to fly by very fast. At one point the nurses put "seizure blockades"to my sides, which also made me freak out. Luckily, I was started on lorazepam very quickly, so that probably helped prevent me from seizing. They kept taking my EKG because they were looking for abnormal heart rhythms, and they eventually started switching between giving me both potassium and sodium. I think they also gave me magnesium at one point. I got very cold at one point and was shivering profusely, and I had myoclonus and what felt like little "zaps" in my body. They got me as many blankets as I could but it didn't help much. After about ~4 hours? I don't remember almost anything. But this is when the perceptual distortions/hallucinations started.
The first thing I remember is them doing an ultrasound of my bladder because I was unable to urinate, which made me start screaming because the gel was so cold and my nerves felt incredibly sensitive. They then inserted a catheter to help me urinate and also because they wanted to see if my muscles had started breaking down. I was mostly incoherent so I didn't hear what they were saying. For some reason I was totally convinced that the catheter was my IUD and that it was FALLING OUT OF ME. And I was trying to shove it back up because I was really embarrassed. This is apparently when I pissed myself, but I thought it was blood (from my IUD). They also gave me heparin for blood clots, and it's right in the stomach so IT REALLY HURT. The nurse was touching my arm and put another IV in my other arm, and i just remember pleading and crying for her not to "poke me" again. That's where my memory cuts out, but I know I was wheeled up to the ICU at some point.
That night when I was sleeping in the ICU, I woke up hallucinating. First, I hallucinated that my phone was in my bed and I would grab it and pick it up, but then it would disappear. This happened many times. Then I looked over and I swear to god I saw my friend sleeping in the chair. I even called to him but then realized no one was there. I would then fall back asleep, have some weird, trippy dream, and wake up talking out loud. I think I annoyed the nurse watching me. The next day I still felt out of it, I have a really really hazy memory and I remember feeling like my head was incredibly cloudy. This finally went away on the 3rd day.
So, in short, diphenhydramine was a terrible idea for me. Does anyone else have any interesting experiences with it?
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I took the pills (50 mg x 25) around 3 pm and was taken to the ER after maybe 45 min. My hands started getting tingly and my mouth was parched, but that could have been the anxiety of realizing "oh wait, maybe I shouldn't have done that". By the time I got to the hospital, I started feeling very strange. What started as a very slight buzz in my chest turned into a weird dream-like experience, and as they were wheeling me into the ER I was in a semi-dissociative state. I was completely convinced it was a dream. I found it very hard to put together sentences or even remember how to talk, which only got worse. A nurse helped me undress in this small bathroom and I found it incredibly hard to stand up because gravity felt 100 times stronger than normal and I was very unsteady. They also wanted me to give a urine sample but I wasn't able. Then I went back to the bed and they gave me lorazepam to calm me down as they asked me millions of questions. I started getting overwhelmed because I was literally incapable of thinking coherently, so I ended up begging for them to leave me alone. They also gave me a vomit bag, which made me freak out because I have a horrible fear of vomiting (RIP). My mouth only got dryer and dryer too which was really annoying.
By this point I felt almost drunk, and whenever I tried to speak it sounded like my voice wasn't even my own and I was not in control of it. I was very tachycardic (~160-170 bpm) but again that was also probably worsened by the anxiety. The lorazepam finally kicked in and I got sleepy-ish. Then for the next several hours, I progressed into a very strange surreal state where time seemed to fly by very fast. At one point the nurses put "seizure blockades"to my sides, which also made me freak out. Luckily, I was started on lorazepam very quickly, so that probably helped prevent me from seizing. They kept taking my EKG because they were looking for abnormal heart rhythms, and they eventually started switching between giving me both potassium and sodium. I think they also gave me magnesium at one point. I got very cold at one point and was shivering profusely, and I had myoclonus and what felt like little "zaps" in my body. They got me as many blankets as I could but it didn't help much. After about ~4 hours? I don't remember almost anything. But this is when the perceptual distortions/hallucinations started.
The first thing I remember is them doing an ultrasound of my bladder because I was unable to urinate, which made me start screaming because the gel was so cold and my nerves felt incredibly sensitive. They then inserted a catheter to help me urinate and also because they wanted to see if my muscles had started breaking down. I was mostly incoherent so I didn't hear what they were saying. For some reason I was totally convinced that the catheter was my IUD and that it was FALLING OUT OF ME. And I was trying to shove it back up because I was really embarrassed. This is apparently when I pissed myself, but I thought it was blood (from my IUD). They also gave me heparin for blood clots, and it's right in the stomach so IT REALLY HURT. The nurse was touching my arm and put another IV in my other arm, and i just remember pleading and crying for her not to "poke me" again. That's where my memory cuts out, but I know I was wheeled up to the ICU at some point.
That night when I was sleeping in the ICU, I woke up hallucinating. First, I hallucinated that my phone was in my bed and I would grab it and pick it up, but then it would disappear. This happened many times. Then I looked over and I swear to god I saw my friend sleeping in the chair. I even called to him but then realized no one was there. I would then fall back asleep, have some weird, trippy dream, and wake up talking out loud. I think I annoyed the nurse watching me. The next day I still felt out of it, I have a really really hazy memory and I remember feeling like my head was incredibly cloudy. This finally went away on the 3rd day.
So, in short, diphenhydramine was a terrible idea for me. Does anyone else have any interesting experiences with it?
Tagged by Xorkoth
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