Does coffee affect your nerves, give tummy trouble or trigger panic attacks?

It can bother my stomach, not all the time, but sometimes. I never have this problem with tea!

@Qipaogirl really, because sometimes tea contains caffeine and can in some cases be worse than coffee!

Yes, I have bad reactions to coffee. I am fine with decaf, though. Regular coffee keeps me up at night, even if I drink it early in the day. It also makes my heart speed up and makes me feel nervous. My dad has similar reactions to it.

Coffee has a lot of nasty oils that tea doesn’t have.
I notice that if coffee is the first thing that hits my stomach in the morning, my stomach will protest with discomfort, tightening, acidy feeling.

Anxious and agitated ? Well, it’s sort of supposed to do that isn’t it? I mean, it is supposed to rev you up. If you’re not doing anything then all that revving has nowhere to go, but to come squirting out as nervous tics.
Try getting a little active, just a walk or something to get the blood flowing, something for the induced ‘energy’ to do.

Also try not taking coffee on an empty stomach. Whatever’s in your stomach can buffer the coffee to make it less of a shock. I find that even a tall cup of water preceding a morning coffee will make a big difference.

Your mention of quality is astute, too, I think. Starbucks introduced ‘America’ to better coffee than we were used to, but their dark roast style is harsh/bitter/nasty. People unfortunately think that means ‘good’ coffee these days. The harshness is not necessary.
Try to get coffee with a light or medium roast instead of dark. Dark roast exposes the beans to hotter temps for longer and that brings out more caffeine and more of the most bitter oils.
Some people put loads of milk in their coffee to soak up or mask these bitter elements. But I think that’s a bandaid on badly treated beans.

It totally does. But when I am tired, I need coffee. It is a curse.

I usually drink decaffeinated, but I go for the caffeine on a day I have a lot of work to do.

It depends on the coffee and the quantity I drink. Sometimes it makes my bladder go nuts. Sometimes I get jittery – especially if I haven’t eaten.

If I drink coffee on an empty stomach or after dinner, I have these problems.

I usually stick to one cup a day, in the morning, with food.

If I have a cup in the evening (which is uncommon), I’ll have decaf.

Yes to all of the above plus severe insomnia. I drink only tea.

Yeah, I don’t know why it’s so popular. I used to put cream in my coffee and I thought that was what made my stomach hurt, but apparently coffee just does that alone.

Just the taste of coffee makes me shudder. It’s the bitterness, not the caffeine. As a result I have never developed a coffee habit. Sometimes I wish I could have. “Want to grab a coffee?” It’s such a universal reason to get together.

^^^ “Want to grab a coffee?” is a generic way of saying “Let’s hang out and drink whatever…coffee, tea, water, beer, juice, seltzer.”

Coffee does not affect my nerves, but if I need to go to the bathroom it will help that along. If I have coffee too late in the evening, and I have to much of it or it’s too strong, I may be up an hour or two later than I’d like to be.

A slight correction to @dabbler‘s post, a dark roast coffee actually has less caffeine (by volume), in general, though by a slight degree. It does bring out more bitter oils and tannins, however (and breaks down more delicate components into bitter ones). Personally i prefer light roasts, but that’s also probably a lot to do with drinking French Press most of the time, which results in a much more intense flavor then most other methods.

In general, though, as has been said, most of those symptoms are pretty consistent with caffeine in general, though other compounds could also induce nausea if you’re sensitive, as could the acidity of coffee (if it is acidic, that depends on a lot of things). Whether those things happen to a given person depends on a lot of things, especially whether or not you drink coffee/caffeine on a regular basis. So, yeah, it makes sense if you are feeling that. I’d suggest trying decaf coffee to see if that helps, if it doesn’t it may be other things.

Too much coffee and I do feel wired. It’s an unpleasant sensation, jittery and queasy and anxious.

My normal intake is just two cups of ordinary instant when I first get up, and that’s it for the day. I use coffee without really enjoying it. If I even measure too big a spoonful, I feel uncomfortable until it wears off.

@gailcalled I really do know that. I was comfortable drinking something else.

It never used to in my youth, but it certainly affects me now and it can make me feel very edgy if I drink too much. I try not to drink coffee later in the day at all and tend to only have it in the mornings. If I have a milky coffee it has caused me to have an upset stomach but I always assumed when that happened it was the milk. It could have been the coffee.

Yes! It does all of those things to me, but I drink gallons of it anyway.

It all depends on dosage. Caffeine is a psychoactive substance.

I discovered my caffeine limits while studying for my PhD exams this past semester… More than a pot a day and I feel like I want to jump out of my skin.
And I don’t like to drink coffee out of the house because it makes me feel like I’m going to crap myself.
How on earth did Voltaire drink 40 cups a day???????

If I am tense coffee can go right to my stomach, making me feel ill. Voltaire worked in mysterious ways!