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Legitimate Caffeine Overdose + Bipolar Mania

Lightning-Nl

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Around 2 weeks ago, I was out of my Adderall prescription and WAY behind on my work schedule. I didn't know what to do, and I didn't feel motivated at all. So I made myself a cup of coffee and sat down on my laptop. I just sorta dicked around for a bit and didn't really do anything so I made myself another coffee. When this cup didn't help, I got really frustrated and angry and I sort of got manic because of my anger.

I am diagnosed Bipolar and anger really triggers my manic episodes. Because I was extremely angry at the fact that I wasn't getting anything done when I had a shit-ton to do (plus a lot of other extremely frustrating things had happened that exact same day) No exaggeration - I filled my coffee mug with an entire thing of NesCafe instant coffee, added around 20 TBS of sugar and drank the entire thing in less than 5 minutes.

Instantly I knew it was a mistake because within 2 minutes of doing that, I got THE worst stomach ache I have ever had in my entire life. I felt extremely bloated, full of gas, and it was very similar to have the stomach flu.

I couldn't really handle the stomach ache, so I called it quits on my work and laid down on the couch. Within the next 15 minutes, I was SO ill I couldn't move. I had a headache like you wouldn't believe. It literally felt as if I had a huge gash across my forehead. I also had an extreme cold sweat. I was so cold while laying on my couch that I was shivering extremely bad, but if I tried to pull the blanket I had underneath my over myself; I felt as if any little movement would make me puke.

When I was finally able to pull the blanket over myself, I got so hot - so fast that I had to pull it off of myself literally within 30 seconds of putting it on.

Over the next two hours - every 15 minutes, these awful symptoms would double in effect and by - I believe it was no around 8:30 in the evening - I was so deathly ill, so nauseous and in so much pain that when I felt like I was about to have diarrhea - I tried to get off the couch, but I just ended up falling on the floor and hitting my head - making everything worse and at the exact moment I hit my head, I lost complete control of my bowels and ended up soiling myself on my living room floor and there was NOTHING I could do about it.

I felt this was for around 3 1/2 hours and just layed on my floor - literally asking god to make it all stop. I was so ill I literally thought I was going to die.

I dont' exactly remember what happened, but I believe I past-out. I remember opening my eyes and seeing only blackness. At first, I actually thought I was dead, but I then realized where I was and what was happening.

I looked around the room and remember seeing the glow of my cable-box digital clock reading "3:22 AM". My head was throbbing with pain and my butt was extremely sore. I'm assuming this is because I was laying in my out feces for 7ish hours.

Somehow, I managed to pull myself off of my floor. I realized at this point that my cloths were absolutely drenched with sweat, and my floor was actually squishy because of how much I had been sweating. I smelled so bad, and my cloths were so gross at this point that I just pulled all of my cloths off. I then walked upstairs and into my bathroom. I was so thirsty - and had no cup - that I just drank straight from my faucet literally for 5 minutes straight.

I was still really nauseous and bloated so I took two Imodium (simethicone & loperamide) and went to my bed. My entire back was covered in diarrhea and sweat, but I didn't really care. So I just layed in my bed and somehow fell asleep.

I woke up at 4 hours later at 7:47. The Imodium had allowed me to fall asleep, but once it wore off - my stomach ache (the bloating, the nausea, and the heart burn) were back. And when I say they were back - they were back with a vengeance.

My stomach somehow felt even worse than before. I laid in my bed - hoping it would go away - but after around 20 minutes of this I finally felt like I was about to puke and booked it to my bathroom, where I only threw up very little. I sat at my toilet for another 20 minutes praying that I would throw up.

After another 20 minutes, I couldn't take it anymore and induced vomiting my sticking my finger down my throat.

What came up was a blackish-red mixture of stomach bile - indicating that I had either a tear in my esophagus or internal bleeding in my stomach. I did this twice more until I felt a little better and laid back on my bed.

The time I awoke was at 4:30ish PM. However, this time when I awoke, I felt much better. I still felt ill, but nothing like I had the night before.

The next two days, I had explosive diarrhea and bad stomach cramping, but I was getting better.

It's now been about 2 weeks since this has happened and I have fully recovered from this incident. Because the coffee and sugar is what made my feel this way - I can no longer smell the smell of coffee without feeling nauseous.
 
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Wow.

I have had an OD on caffeine from nodoze. I basically remember being in a delerium while trying to sleep, and hearing voices. It was the first time I heard voices. Nothing else happened.

The coffee, and sugar, was a definite recipe for your incident with your bowels, gas, etc.

Surprised you didn't mention heart rate. Mine would've had some trouble, at least.
 
That's something I comepletely forgot to talk about.

During this whole ordeal my heart was beating so fast that I actually thought it would burst. It didn't of course - but scary nonetheless.

The confusion is something I missed completely. I'll go into detail.

When I woke-up after passing out - or whatever happened. I had no idea where I was for literally 3 or so minutes which nearly gave me a panic attack.

After I recognized my surroundings and remembered everything that happened - I was very confused. What I mean by that is - I knew where I was, but everything just felt.....off.

The best way I can describe the feeling is - I knew where I was, and I knew I was in my house, but it didn't feel like it was actually MY house. You know that feeling of sort of not recognizing, but at the same, recognizing where you are when you wake up in the middle of the night at a friends place? It felt exactly like that.

What was also extremely strange was I didn't feel safe in my own home. It was a very panicky feeling and something I hope I never have to deal with again.
 
moral of the story,Coffee really is a drug and should be handled with respect,you wouldnt drop couple Gs of meth,treat the coffee same way
 
pretty awful stuff. I would guess being out of adderall was the problem. you were struggling without it and turned to caffeine as a desperate measure.
 
Damn you guzzled all that coffee in 5 minutes, fuck me. I may cut down on the Pro-Plus when I go hard trying to stay awake whilst getting work done.

Can't believe you slept in your own shit though lmao, you must of not gave a fuck.

Yes and no lol. I tried getting up after it happened, but moving caused way too much pain. I didn't want to lay in my own shit, but compared to the feeling of getting hit in the crouch all of my body - I didn't care lol.
 
Awful experience but interesting report. I am very sensitive to caffeine and get really spun on just one cup of good coffee, so I can't imagine the hell you must've gone through. Just goes to show that caffeine is a stimulant, really just like any other stimulant. You can get fucked up on it, overdose and eventually even die on it.

Still, nice read. Thanks for sharing.
 
Being tolerant to caffeine and having to drink it on a daily basis. I know the potential, caffeine in high doses for me is, is a panic attack in the making and no way gives you the focus of amphetamine unfortunately. But what you described is fucking scary, ive also been very paranoid of caffeine. I think psychosis is a possibility.
 
I remember I felt the exact way when I took fifteen pills of migraine formula. It has a shit load of caffeine, ontop of large amounts of aspirin and acetameniphn. Being as I was suicidal, I thought it was an entirely amazing idea.

At first, it was cramping then intense intense vomiting within the next twenty minutes. Then drowsiness, and dizziness. I laid in bed for two days vomitting in cold sweats and pain so intense I couldn't fall asleep. The cold feeling got me to put a blanket on but I couldn't keep it on long as I got too hot. Like I said, two days ans I couldn't sleep no matter how bad I wanted to. Crying caused me to got into huge fights of pain. It was the caffeine OD><

Lesson: don't do it xD Caffeine can harm you:P
 
This is my opinion but the issue with some legal drugs or stimulants like caffeine is that many of them are legal because they are horrible or impossible to abuse due to negative effects and this can actually mean they can be more problematic then real illegal stimulants in a certain way.

With illegal popular drugs, they are popular because they work well and have a reasonable risk/side effect profile, thus people like them.

Some drugs are far more unfriendly and thus not abused, and therefore often legal. Its just interesting when you realize that legal doesn't mean nice, easy, safe, ok which is what we might naturally assume based on the legal status. This is perfectly legitimate assumption and unfortunately the law doesn't protect us from dangerous scary substances that shit on us, only the fun ones that are likely safe when used properly. Its just wack.
 
Incredible. I can just imagine the look on your face whenever someone offers you a cup of coffee.
 
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