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Can you get seizures and throw up if you take sleeping pills and drink alcohol at the same time?
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That...and worse!!!: You should never drink alcohol and take any form of sleeping "pill" as the combination is potentially lethal! please stop this practice immediately; if you continue to have 'vomiting' seek your doctor out as this could be from the excessive alcohol use; of a gastroenterologic complication from it.
Answered 5/3/2016
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See below: Sleeping pills of the benzodiazepine class reduce the tendency for seizures. Alcohol has a similar effect. However, during withdrawal from alcohol or frequent sleepng pill use the risk of seizures goes up as the brain has gotten used to their activity.
Answered 11/13/2012
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