All medicines are drugs. Drugs are substances that change how our bodies work, potentially including our minds. Some are pretty safe and legal, some are extremely dangerous and illegal. But pretty much any drug can be harmful or even lethal in large enough doses. There's plenty of completely legal medicinal drugs you can buy over the counter and keep in a medicine cabinet that could kill you or cause permanent damage in the kind of amounts of Benadryl you seem to have taken.

Consider yourself lucky that you seem to have come out of this incident fine, and in future please read the label, good god, or you'll be explaining at the pearly gates that your headache was too bad to check the instructions.

A dose of benadryl appears to be a teaspoon or so, however much you were pouring, it must have been massively over that to make a noticeable difference to how full the bottle was.

I thought it was okay because my roommate takes random medicine all the time and she's super smart.

I know I am

I had one of those little cups with the measuring lines but my head hurt too bad to really read it well

Apparently not. I thought it was just like weed and coke?

You're smart enough to come on here and make a post, but not smart enough to read a label? Is this a joke? It's just too hard to believe you would drink a bottle of something you have no idea about.

We know you're just an idiot, it's ok.

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Considering that Benadryl bottles all say either "BENADRYL: ALLERGY" or "BENADRYL: COUGH FORMULA" or similar on them, seeing that and thinking "yeah, this'll fix my headache" is quite the fuckup.

And I have to ask: What were you considering a "dose"? What exactly were you overpouring into?

Do you know what "drug" means?

RIP Ken Block btw.

"I went to the medicine cabinet" "this is a drug??" I don't wanna go full chemistry class on ya talking about how sugars a fucking drug but there's strictest definitions everyone adheres to. & by those super strict thoughts that is indeed the intent to find a drug. There's no not knowing tf you been doing.

I mean once you've dosed? Maybe. Before your first dose do something- anything- to figure out wtf you're doing.

Jesus Christ that could’ve killed you. Why did you not look up how much to take?

Benadryl is an antihistamine for allergic reactions. It will not help a headache. Please read the directions on all bottles of medication carefully. Taking too much can kill you.

Intense is an understatement. I almost strangled my friend who was extremely Benadryl high because nothing else would stop him, or get his attention.

Benadryl: You can’t sneeze, the spiders are around.

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I know plenty of non-graduates that are capable of reading the label on a bottle of medicine before downing half the bottle.

Most of these non-graduates are children

I'm not smart at all okay?? I didn't graduate for a reason.

>I didn't even know it's a drug.

wut

You can overdose on Tylenol. It will kill your liver. It will be very painful the entire time you're dying.

The only cure is a very painful liver transplant, if they can find a match.

Dont take the wrong medication, and when taking any medication, follow the dosing instructions.

Was it learned? Yes. The easy way? Definitely not...

We'll see. If the damage is bad enough I'll invest in some parts to make it a trail rig. Not a terrible idea.