re antihistamine for sleep aid in article apr nmt edu houle nmt edu paul houle writes anyway i am looking for advice for the use of antihistamines as sleep aids and if there are any dangers of such use seems safe to me since they are used chronically for allergies by millions i don t want to try bzs because bz addiction seems to be a serious threat and from what i hear bz sleep quality is not good whereas antihistamine sleep quality seems to be better for me i have tried some dietary tryptophan loading stuff and that also seems to lower sleep quality i seem to wake up around or so and be in some kind of mental haze until or also i would be interested in any other advice for helping my problem although i ve already tried many of the non pharmacological solutions well i think you might want to visit a doctor who is familiar with sleep disturbances because antihistamines only help induce sleep when they re used intermittently they lose their sedative effect if they re used on a nightly basis their anticholinergic effects drying of secretions relaxing effects on smooth muscle can be problematic in some people such as those with glaucoma or prostate enlargement antihistamines like diphenhydramine benadryl or doxylamine unisom are potent sedatives which are useful occasionally chlorpheniramine chlor trimeton is said to be less sedative but mg seems to work well in some people both chlorpheniramine and doxylamine have long half lives compared to diphenhydramine and so may produce a residual hangover or drugged feeling the next morning steve dyer dyer ursa major spdcc com aka ima harvard rayssd linus m c spdcc dyer
