Caffeine

I never drink soda, or any other caffeinated beverage, for that matter, but today I had to stay awake for a late night function and knew I couldn't do it without SOMETHING to help me out.

I drank two Pepsi Colas and now I'm wide awake at 2:30 in the morning.

Fuck.

How often do YOU drink caffeinated beverages?

 

I have one cup of tea every morning. That is all I can handle or I totally freak out. Two Pepsi Colas might make me go insane.

 

For the longest time, I never drank caffeine, but lately way too much pop and energy drinks!

 

I drink a shit ton of soda. I wish I could cut back it truly does get addicting. I drink so much I do get 'high' off it at work. You can buzz pretty good from a venom energy drink followed by two sodas, I don't think its good for you.

 

i had been sodaless for a while too but i went shopping earlier this evening and they had 24 cases of coke for 5 bucks. yummy yummy yummy. msybe that's why i'm not tired.

 

That's so horrible for your heart!!!

I took a pair of all natural energy pills once and ended up in the hospital. I had a mild heart attack!

 

the energy drink and soda was a one time deal. But I can easily do 5 sodas in a day which is not good either. It feels slightly stoning if I do like 3-4 in a row. I always perceive coffee drinkers to be really amped. Maybe there is something else in the soda that causes that effect.

 

http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine

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^ I'm surprised by how many it would take of everything, I don't know if I trust their numbers =P

 

I remember a news story about a teen guy who was dared by his friends to down many caffeine caplets. He took about 80 and died.

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Bummer.

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/caffeine/references/media/1998_missouri_1.shtml

"MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (AP) -- A 20-year-old man died after taking a dare from a fellow student and swallowing dozens of caffeine pills.

Jason Allen had swallowed most of a 90-pill bottle, which would be the equivalent to drinking as many as 250 cups of coffee, authorities said. "

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According to the 'kill me' link, it would take about 108 cups of brewed coffee to kill a 170 lb person.

The 20 year old student who killed himself with pills took the equivalent of about 250 cups of coffee.

So, the 'kill me' site seems to be within the ballpark.

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I average in about a pot of coffee a day.

Caffeine is the secret to my power.

 

I average 2-4 cups of coffee a day only in the morning. It makes me feel bad if I drink it in the afternoon too.

 

i rarely drink caffeine, especially in soda. i can do without all that sugar. i'll have black coffee now and then.

but my caffeine intake is up around 600-650mg a day. i take 3 200mg caffeine tabs. plus whatever amount of caffeine is in the green tea caps. and then the 3 30mg ephedrine caps. and i have energy all day long

 

Coffee... and keep it coming...

 

i had a bit of an energy drink addiction for a while several months ago, but i'm over it now. i rarely drink coffee, and even more rarely drink tea. i've always been approximately a one-pop-a-day drinker, but now there's a soda fountain where i work so that has increased exponentially lately.

caffeine has very little effect on me, except in very large doses. not because of tolerance necessarily; it's always been that way.

 

Pills... go down quicker than coffee and it's hard to drink 200mg caffeine at one shot.

Good coffee is sex, though...

 

Coffee in the morning, then one more at lunch. I take it black, no milk or sugar.

I love caffeine, I believe.

 

I used to have so much caffeine you'd think I was on a constant IV drip of it. It barely had any effect on me at all. But now I'm mostly weaned off of it, and when I do have it, it keeps me up for hours.