To not understand caffiene drinkers

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I had a cup of tea yesterday at 10am.
I was still having palpitations at midnight, and was wide awake. Didn't sleep until 1am.
Is it just me who is this crazy sensitive to caffiene? How do so many people chug coffee all day and not have any problems?

I'll never forget the time I had an energy drink at the library once when I was at uni, and had to go home shortly afterwards to lie down!

I think I must. I drink about 12-14 cups a day and right up to bed time without feeling any effects.

I have 5 cups a day (tea) but none after 5pm, I also have a Chamomile before bed (and try for my 2L water a day)

I go for lots of wee's

People saying you get used to it my own experience was I suddenly became sensitive to it, and couldn't drink it for a few years without having a fairly intense near psychedelic experience.

Then one day I had a cup of coffee and everything was completely normal again

This. I could say I "don't understand" your extreme sensitivity OP but luckily I'm not dim.

I've considered this but it only ever happens on days when I've had caffeine. I'm actually fine with the effects during the day, helps me be more productive, it's like it's some sort of caffeine come down that I seem to have an issue with. I have seen that it can take around 12 hours to clear from your system.

Shame because I love a cuppa. And coffee.

I couldn't cope without my earwax blowing strong coffee.
I drink a lot of it from waking until going to sleep.
My mum used to give me two cups of milky coffee with my breakfast before taking me to school as an infant.
We never had instant, I can't abide instant, it was and still is brewed in the coffee pot.
No palpitations here.

The headaches are caused by caffeine withdrawal

@OneTC Yeah this, I seem to have spells where I can tolerate it, and at other times I just can't.

I have to have coffee once a day and before lunch otherwise I find it keeps me awake. My friend is super sensitive to caffeine and although fine with the amounts in chocolate etc if she has a caffeinated drink she suffers.

I honestly have absolutely no effects from drinking tea/coffee or any or caffeinated drinks. No boost. No palpitations. No alertness. Nothing. But if I stop drinking it I get a headache, so it's doing something to my body obviously! I drink about four or five cups of tea a day, with the occasional one swapped for coffee. Sometimes I think it makes me calmer rather than more hyper, but that could be psychological.

Yeah. Mum was a big coffee drinker, used to make me a milky cup of instant a couple of times a day. I had my first (weak) tea at about 4 and drank it regularly from about 6.

The tea was normal for 1980s north east, you'd quite often see older babies and toddlers with tea in a bottle. The coffee less so.

My secondary school had coffee vending machines that we had access to from year 7, though, so I can't have been far off normal age for the time.

There are links between adult ADHD and caffeine not having an effect on you!

To be honest I think your body gets used to it. I drink 2 coffees in the morning about 1 hour apart. I can drink a redbull at lunch and still nearly fall asleep. I can drink a nice cuppa at about 8pm and still fall asleep. As for the palpitations I do get them sometimes but I didn’t realise how much caffeine can cause them. I have tried changing to decaf and the headache was so bad during work that I had to have a coffee to stop it and I’ve never attempted to quit again. It just shows how addictive caffeine can be if I’m getting withdrawal headaches like that. I would try to stick to decaf if you can.

Ah, interesting! I strongly suspect I have ADHD. Won't be getting assessed at my age though. Will just continue to enjoy my ineffective cups of tea😃

That's definitely a hypersensitivity to caffeine.

I developed it very recently after being a 5-10 cups of tea a day person since the age of 15. Tea is much weaker than coffee and shouldn't make a normal adult feel like that. It didn't used to make me feel like that, and then about 6 months ago I started getting heart palpitations, and after a few days I realised they immediately followed a cup of tea so I had to cut it out completely.

I only knew what it was because I have a friend who also has a hypersensitivity to caffeine and can't even drink Coca Cola and has to limit the amount of chocolate they eat!

I now just drink decaf, which doesn't taste as nice but it's better than nothing.

Yeah I think there's A LOT more to it than simply being sensitive to it. Tea, even strong tea has never had any noticeable effect on me, even when I couldn't drink coffee. I could drink coke no worries but hot chocolate used to send me sideways

I have always drunk quite a lot of coffee and I don't think it has much affect on me. DH is the same. He thinks it is because we both worked in IT

Both of my grandmothers (one a northerner and one a southerner) were dismayed that I didn't give my daughter tea in a bottle after she started weaning. Apparently water is "boring" and I was being very mean 🙄😂😂

Well it's like anything you build a tolerance up. And of course, like anything others are naturally more sensitive to certain things. Because every body is different. Hence why people will give their ADHD children a coffee at bedtime to help them sleep as it has the opposite effect. Me personally I have about 4 cups of black coffee a day then about 5pm switch to tea.

I never drink coffee just don't like it. I drink 2/3 teas a day my last about 9pm and it doesn't effect me at all. I am partial to Redbull I know they are bad but they don't effect my sleep either.

Is there?? Ok that would explain my 12 cups of coffee a day habit, which has zero effect on me. And the fact I am incapable of finishing anything (I’ve been looking at a half painted wall in the lounge for the better part of a month) and my legendary giant piles of doom around the house. Interesting stuff! Off to have a read up.

Well it's like anything you build a tolerance up.

A few people on here and others I know find this was an all at once thing, and not consistent. I went from drinking loads of coffee to not being able to handle a single cup overnight

To be having palpitations and not being able to sleep 12 (ish) hours after a cup of tea seems like an extreme hypersensitivity.

I am right at the other end. I could literally drink a coffee and go to bed. In fact, on nights where I am not sleeping well? I will often take a black coffee to bed. Drink it, chill out and then I drift off.

I have just started pursuing a diagnosis for adhd, which does have some links to how people react to caffeine.

I'm the same OP. I get all shaky and wired after a small amount of caffeine. I seem to be OK with chocolate though.

I also get a weird reaction to some painkillers that are meant to relax you, I end up getting huge adrenaline rushes and it feels horrible. Also feel hyper after general anaesthetic.

Oh thank christ, you don't know how happy your comment has made me.

I developed a very sudden hypersensitivity to caffeine about 6 months ago with heart palpitations after drinking gallons of tea every day for 2 decades, and I just felt so sad. I love a cup of tea, there's nothing better, and decaf just doesn't quite cut it. I hope one day I can have a normal cuppa again!