Anyone else extremely sensitive to caffeine?

[An Officer]

I once smoked a very strongly flavoured coffee cigar... what a night, between the massive caffeine and nicotine content, I had the shakes, I was extremely agitated and nervous, couldn't even lay still, I had a weird sense of fear and doom, and barely slept that entire night. Threw the damn things in the bin and never went near them again. I didn't know it was possible to feel the effects of caffeine through smoke!

 

[Vulcan Princess]

Caffeine makes me jittery, and I can't concentrate, so I avoid it. It sometimes gives me a migraine, too, but not all the time. (I have the same problem with cold medicines.)

 

[Warp Coil]

Caffeine and sugar seem to have no affect on me. However, if I DON'T have them, I am restless and lazy and unmotivated. So I guess what I'm saying is that I depend on them to feel "normal". I have cut back my intake, but I typically have to have some every couple of days.

 

[Jadzia]

Not overly sensitive to caffeine. I do have caffeine containing drinks most days because I enjoy them. While the stimulant effect doesn't feel especially weak or strong to me, caffeine containing drinks do seem to have a diuretic effect on me, and I'm less productive because of having to nip to the loo every hour. Sometimes they can make me feel more thirsty, and I get a dehydration headache if I have a lot in a short time.

 

[Aurian]

I don't think im sensitive to it at all.

 

[sojourner]

When I drink coffee (only coffee, not tea or caffeinated soft drinks) my left arm goes numb. This doesn't happen if I drink decaf.

Um, I'm no doctor, but that sounds like you have a heart problem. Ever mention this to your doctor?

 

[Spot's Meow]

Yes, I am sensitive to it. One soda is not a big deal but I cannot have coffee. Sometimes I will get a small caramel macchiato from Starbucks and I always regret it a few minutes later. My heart starts racing and I can't sit still. It also wreaks havoc on my stomach. I don't like feeling that way. I've ended up cutting caffeine out of my life without realizing it.

 

[Cicero]

At least this thread doesn't have one of these people who claim that caffeine makes them sleepy.

They make me roll my eyes and sentence them to a donkey punch from Timby.

Well, after the high from the caffeine wears off, it would make you sleepy. Maybe some people just don't get that energy boost, and they only experience the after-effects.

Persons who become drowsy after consuming caffeine generally have highly levels of the enzyme CYP1A2, which facilitates its metabolization. So far as I understand the situation, the caffeine causes drowsiness by being scrubbed from the bloodstream quickly enough that its energizing effect is very short-lived, but not quickly enough to avoid the let-down effect that inevitably follows caffeine consumption.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

It usually strikes me as psychosomatic bullshit, like people who claim to be falling down drunk after a wine cooler or tripping out on Sudafed.

Donkey punch from Timby; that's all I'm saying.

 

[Capn Flukie]

I'm only sensitive if I don't have my morning coffee.

 

[Cicero]

It usually strikes me as psychosomatic bullshit, like people who claim to be falling down drunk after a wine cooler or tripping out on Sudafed.

Donkey punch from Timby; that's all I'm saying.

^ In my own experience, at least, I can say it isn't. I didn't have chocolate or caffinated soda until high school, and was very perplexed why I felt drowsy every time I consumed it. I still don't eat or drink it very much.

I've never experienced a psychosomatic response to anything else (except a feeling of dizziness at open-air heights), and I don't have any reason to suspect one here.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

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[AstroSmurf]

...or tripping out on Sudafed.

I don't trip out on it but I am allergic to that crap too. Hives, swelling, disorientation... we are talking a trip to the hospital.

And with that I guess I am destined to get a "donkey punch" from Timby. What he doesn't realize is the fact I will give him one right back.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'm afraid to even ask what a Donkey Punch is. I imagine him kicking backward with both feet.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

A genuine allergy isn't the same as claiming it makes you high.

Donkey punch denied.

 

[An Officer]

I demand to see this famous donkey punch!

I didn't know Timby had hoofs...

 

[Hoser]

I'm afraid to even ask what a Donkey Punch is. I imagine him kicking backward with both feet.

Well, it can have that effect.....

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Caffeine doesn't effect me at all. The first (and only) time that I tried a Vanilla Coke I got a little sick but that probably had more to do with the taste.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'm afraid to even ask what a Donkey Punch is. I imagine him kicking backward with both feet.

Well, it can have that effect.....

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

Drinking really strong coffee is the only way caffeine has any noticable effect on me. I can drink a mountain dew and go to sleep. Sure, it will hype me up for a little bit, but the buzz doesn't last long.