Posted by med_empowered on January 7, 2007, at 9:18:30
In reply to Tell Me About Diphenhydramine (Benadryl), posted by blueberry1 on January 7, 2007, at 2:45:58
I think its an anti-cholinergic, which makes it useful for acute neuroleptic-induced dystonias and maybe marginally effective for neuroleptic induced akathisia. It does have SRI properties; if I remember correctly, prozac was somehow derived from Benadryl. I could be wrong about that, though...
Some docs report an occasional patient getting better on Benadryl, but not on standard issue SRIs. I think alot of that would be active placebo (the massive tiredness would certainly convince me that I was taking "real medicine".)
Good luck.
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