Taking 2 sleeping pills when 1 is a dose???

[geno]

My GF has been in and out of the hospital for the past month. She's been in a lot of pain constantly. I told her to take a sleeping pill today to try to help her sleep. Well she (knowingly) took 2 when you're supposed to take one. The pill is Unisom. How dangerous is this? I'm worried to let her go to sleep, she seems a little out of it (very drowsy..). I'm mad at her to say the least. Very very irresponsible :|

 

[notfred]

She'll be fine....

I do it all the time (not with sleeping pills, but cold medicine and stuff). The recommended dose is never effective....

 

[Furor]

she'll probably be really drowsy when she wakes up..she shouldn't be taking any sleeping pills if she has been in and out of the hospital.

 

[geno]

The recommended dose is never effective

Each of the pills has 50mg of Diphenhydramine (other pills only have 25 from what I've seen)...so 100mg won't be dangerous?

 

[richardycc]

it is just Benadryl.

 

[LordJezo]

Originally posted by: geno

The recommended dose is never effective

Each of the pills has 50mg of Diphenhydramine (other pills only have 25 from what I've seen)...so 100mg won't be dangerous?

No. She will be perfectly okay.

Me being alive right now is a testament to that.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: geno

The recommended dose is never effective

Each of the pills has 50mg of Diphenhydramine (other pills only have 25 from what I've seen)...so 100mg won't be dangerous?

I'm not a doctor, but I know that in my experience, taking a double does of OTC medication hasn't been harmful. Like I said, I don't take sleeping pills, though.

 

[geno]

In case of accidental overdose, contact a physician or poison control center immediately

from drugstore.com, but I'm sure they're compensating for people who slam half the bottle... I'm confident she'll be ok, it was just stupid of her to take a double dose of anything without knowing about it. She's been so damn irresponsible for her own health throughout this whole rash of visits to the hospital, this only makes it worse.


<---pissed

 

[XZeroII]

Just don't make it a habit. She will be fine. That stuff will slowly build up in your system if you keep taking that dosage though and will cause problems, but just once and for a limited time, she will be fine.

 

[geno]

thanks for the help guys, I wasn't sure if I shoulda been worried about it or not

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: geno

The recommended dose is never effective

Each of the pills has 50mg of Diphenhydramine (other pills only have 25 from what I've seen)...so 100mg won't be dangerous?

That's the active ingredient in Benedryal. You need to take a CRAP LOAD of the stuff to OD. I have alot of allergies (some cause anaphlactic (sp?) shock so it's serious) and my doctor told me to keep swigging out of the benedryal bottle till I feel better if I get exposed to something that makes me react. I've shown resistance to it in the past and the danger of taking too much is fairly minimal, I would probably have to down over a full bottle of the fluid, as compared to the chance of going into shock.

 

[Mill]

Yep she will be 100% fine. I promise.

 

[DigDug]

There's a small group of recreational drug users who ingest 1 GRAM+ of dipenhydramine for the wierd hallucinatory effects it gives.
That's some scary stuff, but at least you know your girlfriend is easily in the clear.

 

[aircooled]

Yep.. Most OTC drugs are very low dose compared to what the body can handle... Usually several times as much.... taking a double dose of on OTC would not typically be lethal (mixing drugs on the other hand....)

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I'm not a doctor, but I know that in my experience, taking a double does of OTC medication hasn't been harmful. Like I said, I don't take sleeping pills, though.

But on ATOT I masquerade as one with my avitar.

 

[rival]

i normally take 1 or 2 pills over the recomended does cuz im fat-ish

 

[geno]

She's fine now - thanks guys

 

[LOLyourFace]

how she doing by the way? will she miss work this week too?

my gf might be studying with me on wed night and i'd like you two to stop by if possible.

-andy

 

[amnesiac]

Pff, Unisom. That's a lightweight's sleeping pill. You could probably take 4 without getting into too much trouble. You'd just be really, really groggy for a while.


Now if she took too much Ambien or Haldol or Sonata, well, that's a different story..