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Anon tries something new in his coffee
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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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A gram of caffeine should be hitting a LOT harder than “why cant i sleep at night”
What does it do?
That's 5x the recommended max single dose, and 2.5x the recommended max daily dose (obviously depends from person to person and on body weight). I don't think it would be lethal, but the symptoms would still suck - racing heart, shaking hands, quite often psychological symptoms like anxiety/panic... The worst part of caffeine OD is that it gets metabolized super slowly (half life 1.5-9.5 hours), so after 10 hours you might still experience those symptoms, and there's simply nothing you can do. Speaking from experience here, although it was less than 1000mg. If this story is true (which it very well might be) I feel for OP.
As someone who's consumed that much caffeine in far too short a period, you pretty much nailed it. It's not a fun time.
Also done this. Do not recommend.
So it seems like the demographic of Lemmy user has a non-insignificant crossover of people who've overdosed on caffeine before. Its the worst, I was high as hell when I did it. I thought I was going to die
I felt like shit and had a splitting headache, never took caffeine pills again.