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Monster Energy Drink- Experienced- This Drink is a Bitch

I got into Red Bull for a while at work but now it just makes me feel like utter shit if I drink a whole one (especially if its one of the new large sizes). I stick with coffee in the morning and maybe a coca-cola for lunch and that does me good as far as caffeine is concerned.
 
Whoa, that's a cool site! Doubt we'll find it in America though 8)

So, anyone want to mention where they found Redline? I'm curious but I haven't found it yet.
 
wow dude how does an energy drink effect you enough to write a report? how unique.

if i drink an energy drink (any kind, be it red bull, monster, cocaine) it has the effect of water. or nothing.
 
if i drink an energy drink (any kind, be it red bull, monster, cocaine) it has the effect of water. or nothing.
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Yes, it would seem that a great many of us have very high toleranced for caffeine. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and I would assume that in the long run, in evolutionary terms, it could translate into whole human populations that produce no adenosine at all.

Funny how most energy drinks these days include taurine, which has no 'upper' activity, or any psychoactivity at all IME/IMO.
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There is some evidence that it affects neurotransmitters, though inhibitorily, actually more sedating than stimulating. It also can reduce blood pressure. Its commonly added to energy drinks and bodybuilding supplements for its alleviating effect on muscle fatigue.
 
Xorkoth said:
So, anyone want to mention where they found Redline? I'm curious but I haven't found it yet.
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its found right along side the other energy drinks at my local 7/11. it comes in a blue plastic bottle.
 
All I gotta say is try Xenergy or Spike, both are psychotically strong, I wouldn't even recommend drinking a whole can (and neither do they, it's on the can that you should drink a half can a day)
 
Whoopass is pretty good too. The small 8 oz can is easily as potent as any larger 16-24oz of most energy drinks.
 
^^Excellent site Skyedancer!
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BTW, they have a Death By Caffeine computer which will tell you how many energy drinks it would take to make your head explode or something..

You could drink 94.04 cans of Monster before croaking.
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(based on the 16oz can and my weight, 100kg, of course)
 
Xorkoth said:
So, anyone want to mention where they found Redline? I'm curious but I haven't found it yet.
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GNC has them, they're a little bit more expensive than regular energy drinks I think. They do get you wired though.
 
I used to drink a Redline before work every day. I have a pretty extensive amount of experience in different energy drinks because for a year I was just a total caffeine junky and I would try everything new that I saw. The strongest ones are: Spike Shooter, NOS, Redline, Redline Extreme (this will give you a heart attack) and Rockstar Low-Carb.

Now Spike Shooter is just TOO strong. I drank a can of it before I walked into work one day and I found myself freaking out and having trouble concentrating because I was so wired that it actually had the opposite effect that I wanted it to.

NOS is pretty good. Some strong stuff, 250mg per can.

Redline is amazing, though the Extreme version is just utterly unnecessary. Redline doesnt feel like a normal caffeine buzz because it's not. It feels like some sort of magical energy.

Rockstar LoCarb is great too, awesome taste and just straight caffeine none of that other shit.
 
I am mostly addicted to mate...always put too much in the damn calabasa. Always like...mmm, not quite enough, how about a little more. Love the stuff though...just drink too much ;)
 
katmeow said:
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The dirtiest comedown I've ever had was from caffeine. I don't have much of a tolerance for it, not being a coffee drinker, and had a few too many no doz tablets several years ago. The morning after was worse than any meth comedown I've had. Jittery, sweating, nauseous, unable to sleep and just generally horrid.

The perceived safety of energy drinks and the like is a concern. A guy in Australia recently had his heart stop after drinking an excessive amount of redbull. I'm certainly not saying that one drink will cause an issue, but it's a drug, just like any other, and the discussion of its effects is worthy.
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not to tread lightly on those water indeed. In fact, bring a fucking life-raft. This is just my opinion obviously, anyways..I think that all these energy-drinks are simply the "free" LEGAL market's way of getting all the people hooked on stimulants that they can. With all this HYPE, and I DO mean that in a literal sense, that energy drinks have seem to be getting in the last 7-5years or so...i can see it already...inevitably the same/similar companies are going to come up with some "gas-station"/no-doz-like shit again, but with many different companies competing with many different variations on "whatever the product would be", I can see the companies comming out with pure fucking "ampy pills" like the old, banned, and infamous "yellow jackets" (banned from wehre i live at least_, but a new age, more "aggressive" LEGAL stimulant, that would be just as effective as taking some methamp, or possibly something a little lighter, like "plain old" amphetamine, but it will be "as safe and benign as caffiene" 8) ..sad to say.
Then I guess there's a positive output to this hypothetical situation...there would be a natural tendancy for pill poppers, coke heads, and speed freaks to buy and use these FDA regulated substances, which would obviously be a step forward towards NATIONAL/FEDERAL drug harm reduction/"a backing off" somewhat, of the drug war.

Take this all with a grain of salt.
-DM
 
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Done.

Now you can hear me rant on about how its more likely that there'll be some crazyass lawsuit and those energy drinks stay around though only in plain cans that are not "marketed to children" and they'll cost us all three times as much, while the medical-industrial complex sells us caffeine patches and crap SSRI drugs while we are forced into 12-step programs where we are programmed into all being good little red-staters all marching in a line, march, hut, march, hut, step outta line and get 50k volts to the gut. :|
 
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