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Carmela752Carmela752
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The Unisom you took...was the active ingredient doxylamine or diphenhydramine? (If you recall)

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  • kat.in.the.hatkat.in.the.hat

    I still have one of the boxes I bought.

    It's the Unisom SleepTabs - active ingredient Doxylamine succinate

    I did the whole "stiff upper lip" thing and just dealt with it until the first tri.  At that point, I was still losing weight and they threatened me with prescriptions, so I asked about unisom/B6 and got the okay for that.

    It made me sleepy the following day, but the half tab was much better than the whole tab.  And, I know all the script stuff makes you sleepy too.

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  • Carmela752Carmela752

    Thanks. I knew there were 2 types and wasn't sure which was the type "marketed" for m/s. I know that diphenhydramine (aka benadryl) leaves me super hung over. So I'll have to look for the doxylamine version and try the 1/2 tab if I need it.)

    I have some Rx phenergan at the house leftover from my surgery, but that leaves me terribly hungover also.

    If if gets really bad and I'm vomiting constantly or something, I'll ask for Zofran...and hopefully insurance would cover it since it's ONLY > $1000 for an Rx of 30 tablets.

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  • kat.in.the.hatkat.in.the.hat

    it should do the trick for you ... i was puking about three to four times a day and it took it down to once  day. i could live with that.

    i've rarely been so thankful to not work as i was those first twenty weeks; i pretty much spent them all on the couch asleep, sleeping (or attempting to) through the naseau.

    we've learned though that if i'm pregnant, succesfully or not, i'm going to be sick, since i was just as sick with our m/c.  it's one reason we're waitng for more kids, i want marion to be able to be in a five day a week MDO program if necessary.

    and random question, why do all anti naseua meds seem to make you drowsy?

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  • Carmela752Carmela752

    Ugh, I hate puking. ;) I'm definitely worried about it because of work and school.

    Most of the meds cause drowsiness because a lot of them are antihistamine or anticholinergic type drugs, and it's how they act in the brain and on certain receptors. (Doxylamine, phenergan, compazine, droperidol, dramamine, scopolomine are all in that class.)

    Zofran works in the brain but also on nerves outside the brain, so it doesn't so much cause drowsiness as it can cause headaches (and constipation is a big one too.)

     

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