Overdosed with coffee - crashed really badly.

I'm not completely sure it's the caffeine that benefits me, although it's difficult to compare because I've never been able to cope with the taste of tea or coffee.

I did once try taking bits of a caffeine tablet to help me get a grant application in, and even though I only took a crumb at a time, it eventually made me feel jittery. Cola doesn't do that, and it probably has more caffeine than I took then – it's really hard to fathom. I have wondered about the phenylalanine content possibly being a benefit (I drink diet cola), but I don't really know!

 

Its proven that there is disturbance in the autonomic nerve system. Everyone who is still drinking coffee, coke, alcohol, energy drinks has only to blame themselves tbh.

 

Are you scolding us? I have decent will power but I'm still human. I also had issues with caffeine before ME.

 

My phenylalanine and tyrosine levels on my amino acids test were way below normal range. They were the lowest of all my amino acids.

 

No one is - that was the point

 

Is there an equal number here who find that it is underdosing on coffee that causes the crash? This being scientific forum....

 

To the best of my highly unscientific knowledge, neither the presence nor absence of caffeine has caused me to crash.

Genetically I'm supposed to be a slow metaboliser (if you believe any of that stuff, and largely I don't; I just regret not having the energy at the time to persuade the person gifting me the test to donate it to ME research instead). Caffeine can give me a bit of a headache and an inability to concentrate if I take it in tablet form, and if I drink too much in the evening I risk more nighttime loo trips, but that seems to be all.

ETA: Nor any other substance I've ingested, come to think of it.

 

Well you could have pointed that out explicitly before I tried it!

 

As with everything else, my reaction to caffeine is topsy turvy.

Yesterday I was in pain everywhere, my anxiety was through the roof and I was so brainfogged I couldn't have trusted myself to reliably add two and two. By late afternoon I couldn't take any more and made myself some coffee.

Within ten minutes the thick fog thinned to a fine mist, the anxiety vanished and I felt 'normal' again. Even the pain was more bearable. This has happened so many times now that I'm confident it's not coincidence.

I deliberately don't drink caffeinated coffee except in these situations because if I do it doesn't have the same effect.