Why did I react to benedryl like this?

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My “guess’ is just what you guessed at in that it was not as time released as what you were used to and you may experienced the full on effect all at once from that larger single dose pill! Next time I would ask them to show you the milligrams and also ask for the 2 smaller pills.

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