Combinations - Dimenhydrinate and SSRI's

[stefan22]

A friends of swims is planning on taking motion sickness pills with the active ingredient 50mg of Dimenhydrinate per tablet. What will happen to swims friend? Swims friend is on prozac and clariton will these effect swims friend?

Anyother info for swims friend about motion sickness pills would be helpfull.

stefan22 added 95 Minutes and 43 Seconds later...

how long do the effects last? i need quick replys please

[Panthers007]

Bongo finds 200mg an optimal dose for helping him sleep when he has insomnia. Other than that - you are obviously not UTFSE (Search-Engine). There is loads of info here about this substance.

Say Good-Night, Gracie.

[stefan22]

wheres the search engine?

[Metomni]

SWIY should look into using the dramamine patches that go behind your ear. SWIM gets horribly sea sick when he goes on cruises, but those patches work like a charm for entire days if you put em on in the morning.

[stefan22]

swim found the search engine but still cant find anything about the combination of using prozac and Dimenhydrinate motion sickness pills

[chrisn]

Diphenhydramine (and by extension dimenhydrinate) on its own has very mild SSRI action (in fact it was the basis for development of medications like Prozac) so it is unlikely that Prozac's SSRI action will have any negative interaction with dimenhydrinate. However studies of drug interactions probably have not considered those who take massive amounts of antihistamines.

I would say start low and pay careful attention to any signs of respiratory depression. Not to say that effect would likely be an issue but one never knows.

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Good observation

[Dexyfiend]

Originally Posted by chrisn

I would say start low and pay careful attention to any signs of respiratory depression. Not to say that effect would likely be an issue but one never knows.

SWIM agrees with the respiratory depression issue here.

When SWIM was but a wee lad he knew some silly silly fellahs that combined a shedload of travel sickness pills with a shedload of alcahol and almost died due to (almost) respiratory failure... be careful

[stefan22]

Thanks for the info. So tonight well my parents are sleeping im going to take 6 which is 300mg. do i have to worry bout leaving the room or will i be in control?

[Jatelka]

Covered numerous times before

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