Talk:Dimenhydrinate

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[edit] Other Uses

From a stupid personal experience I can attest that taking too much Dimenhydrinate has additional side-effects: complete loss of balance (cannot sense up from down) and a significantly extended duration (my "trip" lasted 3 days).

[edit] Moving Abuse section to new article

The "Abuse" sections in this article and Diphenhydramine are largely identical (minus my recent edits here), probably a cut-and-paste between the two. The Abuse sections should probably be moved to their own separate page, titled something like "Abuse of Dimenhydrinate and Diphenhydramine" or "Antihistamine Abuse".

The majority of people who abuse these drugs are younger (as with most drug abuse, I suppose) and have found out about the delerient effects of the drugs from the Internet, sometimes with falsely grandiose information. I'm looking for a reference but is this not obvious enough that it doesn't need to be strictly sourced? --Bk0 13:59, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi there. I'm sure a lot of children get info on the internet about deliberately overdosing on antihistamines and then do so, but I don't quite see how its obvious that many of them do so mistakenly, hoping for a "psychedelic" experience. It seems to me that children so inclined to seek out information on drug abuse on the internet are likely aware of what the difference in these drugs are. I may certainly be wrong, of course, and if do you in fact find a reliable reference (ie, news agency, journal article, and not erowid) for this fact, then by all means include it with a citation.

Indeed, a good case can be made for separating these articles. My suggested title would be, as you said, "anti-histamine abuse" as there are several drugs of this class that are potential candidates for misuse. RJSampson 22:44, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Recreational dosage

Threshold hallucinogenic dose of 20-22 pills? That is quite a large dosage. I have heard of people getting fairly strong 'trips' off only 8 pills (400 mg.)

Perhaps you're getting dimenhydrinate and diphenhydramine confused. The former has half the potency of the latter. --Aramգուտանգ 21:32, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Based on Erowid Expirience Vault I've lessened the threshold dose. --krampus 01:10, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

This article is almost entirely nothing but a primer on how to overdose on dramamine. ---

That doesn't particularly matter. It's still relevant information. The article could be expanded, of course.--134.10.121.56 08:28, 9 February 2007 (UTC)