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I have been abusing benadryl for a couple years now. I've decided that I'm not using it anymore, but I'm paying the same price I paid which made me begin using it anyway. I've tried early am exercise, cutting caffeine, supplementing magnesium, chamomile and skull cap tea before bed, no electronics before bed. Nothing has seemed to have helped. I've recently learned two other people in my family, an uncle and his son, both have the same issues and also turned to benadryl to get those precious four hours of sleep. Just wondered how common this is.

I have been abusing benadryl for a couple years now. I've decided that I'm not using it anymore, but I'm paying the same price I paid which made me begin using it anyway. I've tried early am exercise, cutting caffeine, supplementing magnesium, chamomile and skull cap tea before bed, no electronics before bed. Nothing has seemed to have helped. I've recently learned two other people in my family, an uncle and his son, both have the same issues and also turned to benadryl to get those precious four hours of sleep.

Just wondered how common this is.

Yes
Sometimes
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I've had sleeping problems all my life, but I was basically on Benedryl for my 20 years since I was 2. I've had a horrible skin condition, allergic reactions to everything, it was horrible. It affected sleep, school, my personality, everything. Now I'm basically a teetotaler. Anti-medicine if I can help it. I still have severe sleeping problems, but every time I cut a harmful chemical from my life (benedryl, caffeine, HFCS) it's helped me. Caffeine and internet addiction is still something I struggle with, though. I go through waves of leaving, and getting addicted again because I am weak, and for the fact you can't cut the internet out completely until you live off the grid away from society. Someday, though.

EDIT: I want to point out that throughout school, they wanted to put me on experimental ritalin-type shit, people tried to get me to try weed, shrooms, DMT, spice, and had alcoholics for friends. I have a lot of reasons to not trust the medical industry, as well as being ultra paranoid about what I put in my body chemically. I would've been dead if I accepted even 10% of that shit.

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Glad you resisted all of those things they wanted to get you started on.

I don't know if it would be of something you're interested in, but I have drastically curbed my internet usage through studying the Bible.

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My degenerate parents put me on Ritalin. That was forty four years ago. Don’t do it.