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Jan 06, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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I've taken zzquil twice this week and these last few days I've noticed a weird shift in my moods and overall mental health. I'm just pretty agitated and testy and I ruminate on things more than normal and I just feel weird and different.
I was wondering if this was the zzquil causing the issue. I've been pretty stable before this week. Even applying for work and stuff. __________________ Ridin' with Biden |
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Jan 06, 2024 at 01:18 PM
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I don’t have bipolar disorder but any kind of sleep aide, even taken on a very rare occasion, makes me either agitated or extremely irritable or puts me in a bad mood next morning. Yes it makes me feel weird. I only take it when I can’t fall asleep and I am getting stressed that I won’t be able to handle commute in the morning and work day without sleep. But then sometimes I feel I’d rather be sleepy next day than feel like that |
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Jan 06, 2024 at 02:25 PM
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I don't know. I wouldn't think so. Isn't it pretty much the same ingredient as benadryl?
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Jan 06, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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If it is one time my pdoc recommended I take benadryl to help me sleep, but benadryl doesn't make me sleepy unfortunately. Few meds do. The only med that truly does is remeron, but that makes me ravenousely hungry!
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Jan 06, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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I guess zzquil can cause hunger and weight gain too along with the mental health stuff. I guess I'll just stick with my melatonin. __________________ Ridin' with Biden |
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Jan 06, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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Benadaryl can cause agitation. I was IP once over the weekend and they wanted to wait unil the until pdoc was there on Monday to start doing anything dramatic with my meds so they put me on benadryl. I kept getting more and more agitated and finally the nurse realized that it was happening after a dose of bendadrryl. So I spent a lot of time in the shower trying to relax and had bedtime PRNs early. The next day I had a 1:1 to try to keep me calmer. It was great. But now I know that I do not take benadryl.
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Jan 07, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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I feel pretty awful after any sleep aides |
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Jan 07, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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Where you on a higher dose? The sedation decreases somewhat but the appetite stimulation decreases a lot with a higher dose. On 45 mg I had little hunger and I don't think I had any on 60 mg. On 15 I was gaining weight like crazy. __________________ Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1700 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 1.5 mg clonazepam., 50 mg Seroquel |
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Jan 07, 2024 at 03:58 AM
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Zzzquil and benadryl are both diphenhydramine (which is also in PM versions of ibuprofen/acetaminophen). Makes some people calmer with the sleepiness, makes some people agitated.
I know if I'm being aggressive in the ER to the point I need to be chemically restrained they usually start with a shot of zyprexa, then when that doesn't work (it usually doesn't) another, and if that doesn't work they give me a shot that has diphenhydramine, lorazepam, and haloperidol in it and that usually chills me out some (obviously there's other shyt in there that's doing it's thing, but there's a reason they add the diphenhydramine because typical reaction is sleepiness) __________________ Live life for nothing but that sweet sweet melody. |
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Jan 07, 2024 at 02:52 PM
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I didn't take any last night. And my moods are fine today. I'm a bit down in the dumps. Or perhaps down in the Trumps. But overall today has been a lot better. I'm not agitated or irritable like I was yesterday. So I'm guessing it really was the zzquil.
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