Energy Drinks and how they affect you

[Grayman]

I rarely have them. I had a month where I had a 5 hour energy drink every week or more and by the next month I was in the hospital due to heart palptations and an anxiety attack. It was the first one in my life so I did not know what it was.


Two weeks ago I started to drink Red Bull. Later things began to bother me that I normally would just remain indifferent too. I tell everyone that I am leaving here. Eventually I was crying everyday for three days, trying to figure out what is wrong and then suddenly I was back to normal. My problems didn't change but I did.

I am thinking of doing one more test with the Red Bull to see if I go back into crazy land. Was it really the drink or maybe something else...?

Anyone else have any experiences like this?

 

[Helvete]

I created a thread about how fatigued I was the whole time. Primarily when I was at work and how this feeling came about when I started my new job. I started using energy drinks regularly to overcome this tiredness and it helped to give a short term buzz. But after the effects wore off I was back to being really tired. In the mornings were the worst, I just felt like I had no energy at all. I think the energy drinks made the problem worse rather than helped even though while the buzz was there it helped.

Now I don't drink it at all. Instead I just drink water and I feel fine. Initially the problem wasn't started by the energy drinks, it was my lifestyle and change in what I did everyday (working). I just felt the energy drinks was having a really negative effect on top of what I was already dealing with.

As for what you describe I have no idea. I never got any of that, I think it affects different people in different ways.

try just drinking water though, it's way more beneficial than I ever really anticipated it to be. Since we're mostly made of water it makes sense.

 

[Pyropyro]

Grayman, I think someone spiked your drink But do conduct more tests to see if it is indeed the drink that caused your experience. Perhaps this is why they tell you that Red Bull gives you wings?

I also agree with Helvete about drinking lots of water so that your body will get rid of whatever chemical that is messing with your brain.

I only use good old fashioned coffee for my boosts so I'm not that familiar with energy drinks. I think I drank one before but it didn't have any noticeable effects except that it tasted like piss.

 

[xirekm]

I like them mostly for their taste and bubbles, but they don't help me too much. When I don't have energy, an energy drink may sometimes be helpful for me, but only sometimes, no guarantee.

Nothing helps me to get energy, even psychotherapy or antidepressants. :-(

 

[Puffy]

When I was a student there was a period in which I drank energy drinks quite often (once every 2 days) for about a year, and less regularly for a few years before that (I have a big sugar tooth, what can I say? ). At the end of the period I started experiencing heart palpitations. I was pretty sure the two were related, as it'd start if I drank an energy drink, so I cut it out of my diet and the problem left on its own.

There are other unhealthy, likely contributing aspects in my life, but they've continued past quitting those so to me were the worst factor. I'd get your energy somewhere else and not risk it, personally; I'd consider myself a healthy 24 year old, so heart problems is pretty crazy.

 

[StevenM]

I have never tried an energy drink.

Two years ago, and earlier, I could drink three large coffees a day and have no effects. Then, when I had my mishap with mental health, there were times where I couldn't drink caffeine at all without having what grayman described (heart palps, anxiety attacks). Now, I can handle one small coffee a day, but I am still a little bit sensitive to caffeine. Any more, and it would get to me.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I haven't had one sip of coffee and have never taken any form of energy supplements(pretty sure Gatorade doesn't count). I had very bad daytime sleepiness in high school, but otherwise my energy is manageable. It's my attention span I'm worried about.

From my perspective it seems like people just get addicted to caffeine and don't even drink them for the energy anymore.

 

[(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

From my perspective it seems like people just get addicted to caffeine and don't even drink them for the energy anymore.

Yes, like the people who need their coffee every single morning. I doubt they're getting energy from it at that point since they've built up such a tolerance to it.

That's why personally I spread my coffee drinking out. I binge only on the days when I have an entire day to myself to work on my projects, drink two pots to myself and feel amazing / get tons of work done.