[ SECRET POST #2950 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2950 ⌋

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Re: I...regret...everything

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh. So, for like 3-4 weeks, I was taking (normal amounts of) benadryl for allegies, and for some reason I was having like +200% hallucinations, along with whatever small, simple partial seizures.

After watching some clothes "breathing" and shifting inside a basket, this was enough of a fucking horror movie moment for me that, in one of my clear moments, I decided to google wtf was going on with benadryl and seizure disorders.

Turns out benadryl a.) lowers the seizure threshold, and b.) induces hallucinations in susceptible individuals. So not only was I just straight up hallucinating, I was having visual hallucinations as part of my seizures.

And it took me 3. Fucking. Weeks. To figure out the common fucking denominator was a fucking antihistamine. I mean, every time I took the benadryl, I regretted it because I was realizing the weird pattern, but since my insight was pretty fucking limited, it just didn't occur to me that the benadryl was the variable.

Fucking adulthood, how does it work.

Re: I...regret...everything

[kaijinscendre]

OMG. I am sorry that happened! But at least you figured it out. Is there something else you can take for allergies that won't have that effect?

Re: I...regret...everything

[(Anonymous)]

No worries! I'm very much better now, and I only have visual hallucinations when my seizure threshold is beyond borked.

Because I have some amazing online friends, they helped me figure out what to take and what to avoid. Loratadine seems to be the most innocuous and beneficial antihistamine to take, and so far I'm doing pretty well.

(Also, anyone else with neurological conditions like that, be wary of anything like pseudophedrine as well. Apparently it mimics adrenaline, but lasts longer, so if your sympathetic or parasympathetic system is already vaguely fucked, this will fuck it up worse.)

But yeah, actually it was something like 2-3 months now that I think about it, that I was taking this shit, and it was pretty much making me think I was going off the deep end and having loads more seizures. Nope! Just a common and really shitty side effect for a vulnerable population.