caffeine - confessions

[Jon Miller]

I followed the link someone gave to chocolate is bad for dogs at the site howstuffworks and than started reading about caffeine

http://home.howstuffworks.com/caffeine3.htm

it actually sounds pretty nasty, but doesn't entirely fit with my expereince of it

I rarely get much caffeine now, after my blood pressure problem I haven't had a cup of coffee and have only had a couple caffeinated pops (and some chocolate, quite a bit on christmas n fact) since

anyway

I would occasionally (couple times a week) have a few coffees or expressos and would not get any boost of energy from it or anything (in fact I went to sleep right afterwards fine)

and when I went to coffee shops (at most once or twice a week), I would drink 6 or so expressos and 4 or so coffees in a couple hours

and mostly I was never effected

I was deffinitely never addicted, never had any ill effects when I would not drink coffee or do other caffienated beverages or eat coffee

so why didn't I suffer those bad effects discussed?

and why didn't I get addicted?

are you addicted?

how does caffiene effect you?

sometimes when I drank a whole lot of caffiene I would get a weird accelerated feeling, but I ahd to drinka lot for that to occur and that was usually the only affect to occur (There were a few times when it woke me up also, but usually nothing happened)

Jon Miller

[KrazyHorse]

If I drink a cup of coffee I'm up for hours and will quite possibly get a headache.

[JohnT]

If I don't get my usual allotment of caffiene, I do get headaches... pounding headaches.

[mrmitchell]

I can't stand coffee (I just never liked the taste of it :vomit: ), but I do keep a Dr Pepper handy at all times, just in case I need a good-tasting, energizing beverage (which is always.)

[The Mad Monk]

Caffeine is my drug of choice, and I will down one to two pots of coffee in any given twenty-four hour period. That said, I don't suffer from withdrawal, except for being sleepier than usual.

If I want to catch up on my sleep over a few days, I just lay off the coffee.

[mrmitchell]

Recent studies suggest that caffeine intake (in coffee) may decrease the risk of developing Parkinson's disease, but additional study is needed.

AHAAHHAHHAHA! CAFEINE IS GOOD FOR YUO!!!!!11

http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine

[asleepathewheel]

hugely addicted.

painful headaches if I go without for more than a few hours. If I sleep too late, much pain, subsides with the first rush of...aaahh caffeine.

I need to detox.

[OzzyKP]

I rarely drink caffiene now, though every once in a while I'll have a Pepsi. But this spring I had a Mountain Dew, and I got a terrible headache. I don't remember getting much of a pick me up from caffiene when I drank it.

[Jac de Molay]

Drink a large cup in a morning once in a while, only to remind me that makes me really anxious and jittery through 3/4 of the day.

I've taken a liking to Red Bull in the morning. Not quite as strong, and a vitamin kick to boot.

[Soul Survivor]

I drink 4-5 cups of tea each day.... but usually 2 or 3 of those are herbal so no caffeine there. Anyway, I like my tea light so I doubt there's much caffeine in there anyway. I drink alcohol more often than I drink soda, if I want to get my heartrate up I go run a dozen kilometers...

[Boris Godunov]

Addict. But I only drink caffeine early in the day, or else I can't get to sleep. So usually it's a 12-oz cup in the AM as I start work, and then a caffeinated soda either at lunch or in the afternoon (which, along with fibrous fruit, helps before the gym). No caffeine after 5pm.

[Combat Ingrid]

Mmm... coffee...

[Urban Ranger]

Caffeine does nothing to me. I fall asleep all the same.

[loinburger]

I hate coffee. Tea makes me piss. Coke will keep me awake, but I think that's mostly from the sugar, because I inevitably crash. (When I want to get some writing done I'll often down a 2-liter of Coke and stay up until 5 am. Works like a charm.)

[Mr. Harley]

See my sig (added it this weekend).

I only drink one big mug when I get up, unless my stomach lining is complaing. If I have to skip, I get a light headache. If I drink any after I've been up more than four hours, getting to sleep is a pain.