OK, I never need to try that again!

Sheldonrs • Apr 2, 2009 9:56 am
Has anyone else tried those little bottled energy drinks?
I use them sometimes to wake up when at work. Usually the 6-hour ones. Well, today, just for the heck of it, I drank 2 of them, one right after the other. Right now, my whole body feels like it's overheating and my arms itch.
On the other hand, I am REALLY awake now!
Shawnee123 • Apr 2, 2009 10:00 am
Do they use caffeine as the major stimulant? I'm a caffeine addict, and pretty much drink it from morning until bedtime. I've never tried those energy drinks but I fear they would have me bouncing off the walls.
Sheldonrs • Apr 2, 2009 10:04 am
Shawnee123;552213 wrote:
Do they use caffeine as the major stimulant? I'm a caffeine addict, and pretty much drink it from morning until bedtime. I've never tried those energy drinks but I fear they would have me bouncing off the walls.


Each one has 220mg of caff. bouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebounce!!!!!!
Flint • Apr 2, 2009 10:33 am
Sheldonrs;552210 wrote:
Right now, my whole body feels like it's overheating and my arms itch.
It sounds like you are sensitive to niacin (B3). Energy drinks are usually loaded with B vitamins.
Sheldonrs • Apr 2, 2009 10:41 am
Right now I feel sensitive to a slight breeze blowing in Argentina.

Hahahahah!
lumberjim • Apr 2, 2009 11:09 am
is your pee bright yellow?
Sheldonrs • Apr 2, 2009 11:19 am
lumberjim;552234 wrote:
is your pee bright yellow?


Never knew you were into watersports LJ. lol!!!
lookout123 • Apr 2, 2009 11:46 am
That's the niacin alright. Either that or the meth... hard to tell sometimes.
Sheldonrs • Apr 2, 2009 11:47 am
lookout123;552249 wrote:
That's the niacin alright. Either that or the meth... hard to tell sometimes.


There is no meth to my madness! :p
lumberjim • Apr 2, 2009 12:25 pm
i used to drink RockStar diet energy drinks......always made my wee glow
Shawnee123 • Apr 2, 2009 12:30 pm
I used to drink FolkSinger energy drinks. Man, they made me mellow and sleepy.
Yznhymr • Apr 2, 2009 2:33 pm
I used to drink Pimp Juice until I found myself voting for Obama, then I knew I had a serious problem. Of course, that's Step #1..
Queen of the Ryche • Apr 2, 2009 2:48 pm
I used to drink Whore Juice, but then I would just lay on my back with my legs in the air....or was that Octomom Juice?
Trilby • Apr 2, 2009 2:52 pm
I did one of those five ounce energy things.....never again, baby. the BAD kind of shakes.
Beestie • Apr 2, 2009 3:09 pm
Spike. Fear it.

I drink a lot of Red Bull so I was quite surprised when I drank a can of Spike and felt like I had a swarm of hornets in my head. Gotta watch those energy drinks - some are pretty lethal.

The best thing I have found for an energy lift is Nano Coffee. No peak and crash - just a steady, medium-term, medium-intensity lift.
BrianR • Apr 5, 2009 12:56 am
I once took a five-hour energy shot plus a can of Monster...my wife said I was talking like an auctioneer and I remember my head buzzing and rapid eye movements. Time seemed to slow down a little bit.

I only did that because I had a hot load and it needed to be delivered yesterday (literally). I was getting sleepy and the soonest my student could take over was five more hours. That cocktail worked to keep me awake and alert all right but I don't do that anymore, I just get more sleep!
sugarpop • Apr 5, 2009 9:40 am
hmmm. I have tried red bull. I can drink more than one with no bad effects. Never tried any of the other ones. If I drink more than one cup of coffee I get shaky and nauseous. I don't drink sodas either.
Trilby • Apr 5, 2009 3:28 pm
I'm never going to eat Skyline chili and then a chocolate easter egg. a chocolate butter-pecan easter egg.

oooooo, tummy....hurts....
Sundae • Apr 5, 2009 3:47 pm
I am ultra caffeine-sensitive (I have pretty much none at all now).
But you guys have me all tempted to go and get a really strong one tomorrow and see what happens... Then again, I've never really enjoyed the scratchy, shaky high I got from coffee, so perhaps best not.

I am never again going to assume that English sun in April isn't too hot for me to sit out in.
An hour. ONE hour folks!
I'm not burned exactly, but I am warm and pink. Matching my... hair.
You'd think I'd have learned after 37 years...
capnhowdy • Apr 5, 2009 4:48 pm
lumberjim;552234 wrote:
is your pee bright yellow?


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Sheldonrs • Apr 5, 2009 5:13 pm
capnhowdy;553071 wrote:
[SIZE="7"]YE[COLOR="Yellow"]P[/COLOR][/SIZE]


Silly Ca[COLOR="Yellow"]p[/COLOR]
Sheldonrs • Apr 5, 2009 5:14 pm
BrianR;552911 wrote:
...I only did that because I had a hot load and it needed to be delivered yesterday ...!


I usually have a different solution to this problem. :D
be-bop • Apr 5, 2009 6:54 pm
This post reminds me of my youth
drinking pints of cider and sniffing lines of amphetamine sulphate
BouncyBouncyBouncyBouncyBouncyBouncyBouncyBounce.........:D
Elspode • Apr 5, 2009 7:45 pm
BrianR;552911 wrote:

I only did that because I had a hot load and it needed to be delivered yesterday (literally).


I've had that feeling in my groin, too. Didn't realize that energy drinks would help that.
Clodfobble • Apr 5, 2009 8:05 pm
lumberjim wrote:
i used to drink RockStar diet energy drinks......always made my wee glow


What an oddly apropos bit of information... sure enough, google says that taking B vitamins will make your pee bright yellow, because you're just peeing the unused amount right back out again. Minifob is on a regimen of a relatively high amount of B-vitamins--and his pee is still clear as always. Looks like he really does need them.
sugarpop • Apr 6, 2009 10:20 am
vitamins will make your pee bright yellow as well.
Trilby • Apr 6, 2009 10:23 am
sugarpop;553233 wrote:
vitamins will make your pee bright yellow as well.


so will pyridium.