Misc Hints and tips for doxylamine users

[Pegasus]

Sarcastic thread title, I know. Sorry.

I'm curious how others use doxylamine for sleep, like at what doses, how regularly, etc. I'm also interested in how others would rate the hypnotic qualities of it, considering we've all likely taken other hypnotic drugs. I guess I'm really open to anything anyone has to say about doxylamine.

 

[dwg52378]

I always prefer Doxylamine over Diphenhydramine to aide in sleep while having mild opiate w/d because it seemed to keep me asleep longer and for some reason Diphenhydramine always made me focus more on my aches and pains, it almost seemed to make the symptoms worse. The dosing is strange for me, 50 mg (2 pills of the kind I use) works well, anything more would stimulate me and prevent me from sleeping.

 

[ErgicMergic]

Doxylamine is fantastic, best OTC sleep med imo. It keeps me asleep longer and leaves me with no real hangover compared to DPH. I use 12.5mg Doxylamine, 25mg on nights where sleep is a necessity. I find 12.5mg keeps me asleep with no hangover, whereas 25mg has a tiny "hangover."

Doxylamine and DPH are both potent anticholinergenics, so taking a double dose has some weird side effects.

 

[Pegasus]

^Yeah, I tried 50mg last night and it really knocked me out, left me feeling really hungover today though... I'll probably try around 25mg next time.

 

[Oxide]

Doxylamine is fantastic, best OTC sleep med imo. It keeps me asleep longer and leaves me with no real hangover compared to DPH. I use 12.5mg Doxylamine, 25mg on nights where sleep is a necessity. I find 12.5mg keeps me asleep with no hangover, whereas 25mg has a tiny "hangover."

I find 12.5 mgs to do the trick as well, with minimal side effects.

 

[vvViolet]

i have had a lot of success using doxylamine as a hypnotic. i use it about twice a week; 25mg. - 37.5mg. has been my usual dose though i do experience some hangover-ish symptoms once in awhile (almost always when i go above 25mg.). seeing as some posters have had success with 12.5mg. doses, i am def. going to give that a try. as a sleep-aid, i strongly prefer doxylamine to diphenhydramine. doxylamine knocks me out faster, has a much lighter bodyload and tends to make me feel very relaxed before i fall asleep. when i use DPH to try to get some sleep, i often lay there in a weird, half-awake/asleep state, feeling like a weigh 3,000 lbs., while having very odd thoughts run through my head. the thoughts aren't bad odd, just odd-odd.

 

[Jabberwocky]

tolerance increase is a bitch in my experience so keep your dosing to a conservative level. i never had any hangover effect that i can remember.

i was using it in combination with other opiates purely for added sedation (codeine, oxy and fentanyl mainly). 50mg would have almost knocked me out on it's own initially but soon reached taking doses up to 5x's that without any noticable sedation when taken alone, attempting to sleep.