glad you chimes in Doc!
I always shake my head when I hear people talking about benadryl for a substitute, those who can deal with an allergic reaction from bee sting with benadryl obviously are not suffering from a life threatning allergie, benadryl will not take care of an anaphylactic reaction and because you give yourself the epipen also doesnt mean that it will garantie saving your life either, in most case it does but for some it buys them time to make it to the hospital for further treatments.