Tylonal PM?

wanting2quit · 11-17-2006, 08:42 PM

Hi!

Does anyone take this? I was reading though a sheet that my OB gave me, and it turns out that this is one of the very few safe medications to take in pregnancy. Anyway... I thought it may help me maybe actually get some sleep tonight.

Thanks!

nicemom · 11-17-2006, 08:57 PM

I took it years ago and personally I didn't like it for sleep because I felt groggy the next morning. I would surely give it a try if I were you if nothing else works because you do need to get some sleep. If you take it you might try breaking the tablet in half and see if that works before taking a whole one.

nalphee · 11-17-2006, 09:25 PM

I also take it, not regularly, but when I had my breakdown I could not sleep, so I would pop one tylenol pm. It does make you groggy the next morning if you don't give yourself at least 7-8 hours time to sleep. I used to take it about an hour before I wanted to fall asleep.

stellablue · 11-17-2006, 09:45 PM

I take one a night

and Come to think of it - It does make me groggy !

Iksfreundin · 11-17-2006, 09:51 PM

I take Advil PM - no grogginess and morning-after tiredness.

babs · 11-17-2006, 09:54 PM

I've used it, and also Advil PM. I think they both have the same "sleep" ingredient, which is exactly the same thing found in benadryl. I do tend to be a bit groggy the next morning but for a good night's sleep it's worth it.

Katesmom · 11-17-2006, 10:40 PM

Pregnant ladies cannot take Advil. If you only need the sleep component and have no pain or fever, skip the tylenol and take a benedryl. That is the sleep component in the Tylenol PM. Why take something extra?

summer bee · 11-18-2006, 04:41 PM

kim's right -- and hunting down the generic (diphenhydramine HCL) makes it even cheaper.

katyajini · 11-18-2006, 06:39 PM

W2q as I wrote in your other post I too could not sleep in the worst possible way when I was pregnant and in withdrawal. I researched extensively (sleepless nights!) and found out Unisome. It is another antihistamine like benadryl but has a better safety profile than benadryl. There has been a lot of state sponsered research on its use in pregnancy, specially first trimester, out of Australia and the Uk and it has been found to be safe. I have taken both benadryl and unisome and I found that U. leaves my system cleanly in the morning and I am not groggy. However in my worst phase nothing got me sleep. Unisom made me drowsy for a few hours.

How are you feeling today? I hope you are feeling better. My best guess is that by the end of the first trimester you will feel a lot better as your hormones even out. You will also have high levels of estrogen which increases both seratonin and seratonin receptors and will compensate for the down regulation of seratonin receptors which creates so much of our pain in withdrawal.

Katyajini

scotty · 11-18-2006, 06:48 PM

Unisom has the same active ingrediant as Tyenol PM. It's all benadryl(diphenhydramine hydrochloride)

11-17-2006, 08:42 PM	#1
wanting2quit Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Posts: 275	Tylonal PM? Hi! Does anyone take this? I was reading though a sheet that my OB gave me, and it turns out that this is one of the very few safe medications to take in pregnancy. Anyway... I thought it may help me maybe actually get some sleep tonight. Thanks! __________________ Prescribed Paxil (10 mg.) Went cold turkey in 2003. Put back on 10 mg. in my third trimester for pre term labor and anxiety. Stayed on until 2005, and tried stop CT again. Failed! Weaned to 5 mg. on 6/2006. Weaned to 2.5 mg. on 9/15/2006 Last Dose of Paxil on 10/3/06 Started Lexapro, 5 mg. on 7/22/07 for Post Partum Depression (had a daughter on 7/1). Went up to 10 mg shortly thereafter. March/April of 2009 weaned from 10 mg to 5. End of May, weaned from 5 to 0.

11-17-2006, 08:57 PM	#2
nicemom Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: NE Ohio Posts: 3,183	Re: Tylonal PM? I took it years ago and personally I didn't like it for sleep because I felt groggy the next morning. I would surely give it a try if I were you if nothing else works because you do need to get some sleep. If you take it you might try breaking the tablet in half and see if that works before taking a whole one. __________________ Diane On Paxil for 5+ years Weaned from 40mg to 15 over a 1 1/2 year period. From 15mg-0 May/June 06 (before finding PP) Protracted w/d from c/t. First 10 mths up and down but tolerable. Akathesia hit at 11 months. Many months of terrible mental and physical torture. 3/09 started Prozac but too stimulating. Currently on 15mg Lexapro and feeling so much better. Not all who waunder are lost.

11-17-2006, 09:25 PM	#3
nalphee Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 13	Re: Tylonal PM? I also take it, not regularly, but when I had my breakdown I could not sleep, so I would pop one tylenol pm. It does make you groggy the next morning if you don't give yourself at least 7-8 hours time to sleep. I used to take it about an hour before I wanted to fall asleep.

11-17-2006, 09:45 PM	#4
stellablue Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Seattle,WA Posts: 82	Re: Tylonal PM? I take one a night and Come to think of it - It does make me groggy !

11-17-2006, 09:51 PM	#5
Iksfreundin "Dancing Queen" Join Date: May 2006 Location: USA Posts: 3,572	Re: Tylonal PM? I take Advil PM - no grogginess and morning-after tiredness. __________________ 95' - started paxil, 20 mgs; up to 30. two ct's, then 60 mgs for years. 40 mgs in '02, poop-out in '05 start taper= 5/8/06 at 20 = 6/17/06 at 15 = 8/8/06 at 10 = 10/15/06 at 5 = 12/14/06 Paxil free as of 3/8/08 (drops were done gradually - not from 20 to 15 and so on) Smoke-free as of 2/27/08 Still doing well, no smoking yet and I haven't been hospitalized - 10/2/09 "You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you!" Job 13:4, KJV Bible

11-17-2006, 09:54 PM	#6
babs Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 4,939	Re: Tylonal PM? I've used it, and also Advil PM. I think they both have the same "sleep" ingredient, which is exactly the same thing found in benadryl. I do tend to be a bit groggy the next morning but for a good night's sleep it's worth it. __________________ Babs Paxil 20mg 1994-2005 2 failed attempts to quit Tapered Jan-April 2005 Paxil-free since May 1, 2005 "Glinda the Good Witch informed her that she had the power to go home all along; all she had to do was click her heels together. Why hadn't she told Dorothy that in the first place? Because, explains Glinda, she wouldn't have believed it, she had to learn it for herself."

11-17-2006, 10:40 PM	#7
Katesmom Moderator Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 13,706	Re: Tylonal PM? Pregnant ladies cannot take Advil. If you only need the sleep component and have no pain or fever, skip the tylenol and take a benedryl. That is the sleep component in the Tylenol PM. Why take something extra? __________________ Katesmom aka Kim started Paxil Oct. 2003 for PIH Paxil free since 19 Jul 2005 ". . .the cruelest lies are often told without a word. . .the kindest truths are often spoken, never heard." -- Ben Folds

11-18-2006, 04:41 PM	#8
summer bee Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: pennsylvania Posts: 1,665	Re: Tylonal PM? kim's right -- and hunting down the generic (diphenhydramine HCL) makes it even cheaper. __________________ 06/26/2006: 10mg; found paxilprogress.org 06/28/2006-01/20/07: a long, zappy time of tapering paxil-free for: TWO YEARS! video: tapering off of paxil. facebook: the dangers of antidepressants. la times: my paxil withdrawal story "all systems begin and end in silence; nothing needs solving, nothing is a problem..." - al zolynas, the algebra nightmare

11-18-2006, 06:39 PM	#9
katyajini Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 261	Re: Tylonal PM? W2q as I wrote in your other post I too could not sleep in the worst possible way when I was pregnant and in withdrawal. I researched extensively (sleepless nights!) and found out Unisome. It is another antihistamine like benadryl but has a better safety profile than benadryl. There has been a lot of state sponsered research on its use in pregnancy, specially first trimester, out of Australia and the Uk and it has been found to be safe. I have taken both benadryl and unisome and I found that U. leaves my system cleanly in the morning and I am not groggy. However in my worst phase nothing got me sleep. Unisom made me drowsy for a few hours. How are you feeling today? I hope you are feeling better. My best guess is that by the end of the first trimester you will feel a lot better as your hormones even out. You will also have high levels of estrogen which increases both seratonin and seratonin receptors and will compensate for the down regulation of seratonin receptors which creates so much of our pain in withdrawal. Katyajini

11-18-2006, 06:48 PM	#10
scotty Administrator & Advocate Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: new jersey Posts: 38,588	Re: Tylonal PM? Unisom has the same active ingrediant as Tyenol PM. It's all benadryl(diphenhydramine hydrochloride) __________________ AKA Laurie "If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." ~Frank A. Clark

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