Is It Alright To Drink Drowsy Cough Medicine Even When You Don’t Have A Cough?

I’m tryna make myself go to sleep.


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16 Responses to “Is It Alright To Drink Drowsy Cough Medicine Even When You Don’t Have A Cough?”

  1. TheOne AndOnly Stephen on March 13th, 2010 at 5:10 pm

    No not really, you can become subconciously addicted to it and feel like you ‘need’ it. It can also stop having an effect when you actually do have a cough as your body can get used to it and become immune to it’s effects.
    You should try to avoid any medicines to help you sleep, the best way is to relax and just let yourself fall asleep.
    If it is just a one-off though, you should be fine.

  2. It’s not going to hurt you once in a while and if you think it’s going to work -it will.
    The ‘drowsy’ effect cough mixture doesn’t really mean that YOU will get drowsy, it means that it will stop your cough keeping you awake. Some cough mixtures allow you to ‘cough it up’ whilst others suppress the cough.
    If you have an antihistamine medicine, it will do the job just as well – but don’t take alcohol with either

  3. Try Benadryl. It’s an allergy medicine that causes drowsiness with no other side effects. I take it all the time, even when my allergies aren’t flared up.
    Of course, I take it so often it takes roughly at least two to get me drowsy enough to sleep….
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    Fence & Company

  4. i do that sometimes when i cant sleep, just be careful with how much you take. don’t over do it. also don’t take it with any other medicines. keep safe.

  5. what are you going to do when your addicted to that stuff??
    for that same reason, cough medicine wont help when i do have a cough.

  6. Raging Tranny on March 14th, 2010 at 7:54 am

    I used to drink Indian Balsam, but they banned it because of the morphine content. Yes it’s ok, I mean look at me, I turned out ok…err…

  7. If you need to sleep…..Simply sleep is good. There are some good sleep teas too. I wouldn’t take the cough medicine unless it was my last choice.

  8. Let me call you and I will put you to sleep. Endless stories to tell.

  9. Sláinte xxxx on March 14th, 2010 at 4:18 pm

    Once you don’t take more than the recommended dose should be ok :)

  10. Charlies Aunt on March 14th, 2010 at 7:04 pm

    missing you already
    :(

  11. i guess..makes you a bit drowsy and sick sometimes.

  12. Rick Springfield The Singer on March 14th, 2010 at 8:43 pm

    Yeah use Niquil.

  13. ♥**•.¸¸v on March 14th, 2010 at 9:18 pm

    no you will get addicted

  14. ….uuuuuuuh….no, no that’s not okay.

  15. yh
    makes me high

  16. Whipass Chick on March 15th, 2010 at 5:40 am

    sigh

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