How are you personally affected by caffeine?

I hang upside down from the ceiling and gibber.

I’m not really affected. I’m naturally hyper. :P

Four cups? I’d get pissed off easily. One will help me do whatever it is I’m doing. I remember one time my boss brought in some energy drinks. He was thinking, “this’ll speed them up. chuckles, cracks open a can and hands it to me” Within 10 minutes of me serving a customer, I found myself to be like, what the hell is the customer thinking, hurry the fuck up, I don’t got all day. I wanted to dictate everything at my pace. ::RickJamesChuckle:: Caffeines one hell of a drug.

Not unlike you, actually. That’s a very good description.

Throughout the day, I drink about 12 cups of coffee. I love it.

I drink diet soda while I wait until my black coffee cools enough to drink quickly.

I find I need to eat occasionally or I break out in a sweat.

It gets me back to normal. It also makes me poop.

Coffee makes me feel alert and thirsty for water! And gets my digestive system moving :)

@incendiary_dan Yes, you said it. I’m new to Fluther and wasn’t sure if people cared to hear about pooping. But it’s true.

I get in to an incredible, agressive, target oriented, goal achieving mood. It’s so bad I have been banned from drinking too much of the stuff at work.

I am a naturally high energy, high mental energy type and while I do really love my morning coffee I do not drink it any other time that the first couple of hours after I wake up.

I’m already one of “those” people that can jump out of bed and start a big conversation almost instantly. My brain is the sports car model and caffeinne is high octane fuel.

Watch Coloma launch like the scud missle! lol

I have a caffine allergy.
One cup will cause my heart to skip every other beat, to skipping 2 out of every 3 beats.
That causes me to go out of breath pretty easy.

@filmfann wow, that totally sucks. Is that really a minor allergy or is it considered medically, very dangerous?

@peterpiers Well, if my heart stops beating, I think it might be dangerous.
My Mom had a similar problem, and she ignored it, and lived into her 70’s.

I barely even notice it, really. It is helpful on long trips, but not when I have to do anything with my brain. (I know I use my brain to drive. It just doesn’t feel that way.) To me, it is something that can keep me up, but if anything I feel dumber after five cups of anything caffeinated.

C a f f e i n E R o C k s !

If I’m scatterbrained, tense or upset, coffee seems to really calm me down but black tea makes me hyper and soda makes me cranky. They all have caffeine but my reactions are so drastic so there must something to the rest of the liquid.

I’m a total lightweight. Even a can of cola can wreck me. I start to feel very anxious, and like I’d rather be doing anything and everything than what I’m doing at the moment.

My headaches go away, my hands stop trembling, my mind focuses better as my attention span goes from “goldfish” to “normal”... in other words, it stops the sort of stuff that it causes in other people.

Caffeine doesn’t have too much of an effect on me, except making me addicted to it. I could not go a day without caffeine and not get a headache or feel very sluggish.

I drink coffee from the moment I wake up until around the time that I go to sleep. I’m not a very hyper person at all.
The only time coffee seems to have a very obvious result on me is if I drink a lot in a very short amount of time; I’ll sometimes get slightly twitchy and talk more quickly than normal.
If I’m trying to stay up longer, I’ll drink a lot more coffee than usual, but it doesn’t affect me in that I won’t be able to go to sleep, just that I’ll feel slightly more alert.

I have never drunk more than one cup of caffeinated beverage a day. Throughout most of my life it has been no caffeine a day, but over the last decade or so I have ranged from about five cups per week to maybe one cup per week. Recently I was at the five cup per week level—maybe even six cup per week, and I cut it off entirely. Well, sort of. I switched to tea and then to hot chocolate.

However, I’m starting to add coffee to my hot chocolate. I think this is because I stay up too late and get too little sleep. I hope to stop it, but I don’t know.

However, I do get a jolt when I drink a cup and for the moment, it really helps keep me from falling asleep or feeling like I want to fall asleep all day long. I will try to cut back, though. I want to reserve its effect for when I really need to be bouncing off the walls.

What’s that?

I don’t drink caffeine enough to know for certain, but sometimes it keeps me awake, other times I get lethargic, and every so often nothing happens.

I know I need to drink at least one full cup of black coffee in the morning, or else I will feel like the clouds haven’t cleared my brain.

I become super woman. I feel like I’m indestructible. I can move faster than a shooting bullet, and talk faster than an auctioneer. And when I finally crash it feels like I belly flopped off the diving board and hit cement instead of water.

My limit is two cups. Otherwise I stick with black or green tea. Caffeine helps me do better work.

Got a question for anyone thats had this problem…...a 45yr old man drinking 6 to 10 reg. Mt Dews every for yrs. then quit cold two days later broke out in cold sweats and weakness, insomnia and feels very tired… how long before change will be felt? Need help quickly!!!

@Rozziee You are detoxing. Drink plenty of water. Eat healthily. Get plenty of rest. Detox from that many sodas per day will take at least a week. It will feel flu-like for about 2–3 days, as your body flushes chemicals out.