Tylenol "nighttime" that was anything but!

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Daniel McCarty - 13 May 2005 18:08 GMT

Last night marks the second time in the past four months that I have
taken two Tylenol Cold & Flu nighttime tablets before falling asleep
and woken up that night with an insane adrenaline rush. What's going
on with me?

I got a spring cold a few days ago and to help me sleep better last
night I took two tablets and went to bed. Around 1:00 a.m. I woke up
and felt like I'd just been injected with a caffeine overdose. Even
back in college when I was popping Nodoze to stay awake it wasn't this
bad!

Whatever it was, it kept me up until about 4:00 a.m. Then I was able
to go back to sleep. FWIW, I went to sleep on an empty stomach and
felt very hungry when I woke up. I looked up the side effects to
Tylenol nighttime and that's not one of them. Anyone have an idea why
my body reacted so weirdly? I can't risk taking that stuff anymore.

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Vetro Chelly - 13 May 2005 19:17 GMT

I got that reaction when I tried sudafed ... I woke up in the middle of
the night wanting to run accross the city... I took look a the side of
the package and one of the side-effects was "anxiety" or something like
that... this was two years ago

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Vetro Chelly - 13 May 2005 19:19 GMT

I remember now, it was "extreme excitablity"

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Jeff - 13 May 2005 20:00 GMT

> Last night marks the second time in the past four months that I have
> taken two Tylenol Cold & Flu nighttime tablets before falling asleep
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> Tylenol nighttime and that's not one of them. Anyone have an idea why
> my body reacted so weirdly? I can't risk taking that stuff anymore.

Tylenol Cold and Flu nighttime contains pseudophedrine (the activite
ingredient in Sudafed), which has this side effect in some, but not all,
people.

Jeff

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Daniel McCarty - 13 May 2005 21:21 GMT

> Tylenol Cold and Flu nighttime contains pseudophedrine (the activite
> ingredient in Sudafed), which has this side effect in some, but not all,
> people.

Yes, that's it exactly! Thanks for putting a name to what I went
through. Now that I know what it's called I did a search and came up
with this interesting story, which sounds exactly like what happened to
me:
http://www.epinions.com/well-review-C0-6B4E9BC-39AB3980-prod3

"May cause excitability, especially in children" is a pretty mild
warning compared to what I actually felt like. It was 1:00 a.m. and I
wanted to run a marathon. The time before was even worse. I did push
ups until I was physically exhausted, but I was still wired. And I
kept having these tingling "waves" of enery rush through my body. Very
weird stuff.

Thanks again,
Dan.

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