To not understand caffiene drinkers

[Frazzld]

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've become sensitive to caffeine
I only have decaf now and not very often
Starbucks made a mistake once and I ended up in hospital for 24 hrs

I don't get it , I could drink it for 30 plus years and then suddenly not

I was drinking Mellow Birds' aged 3.

Didn't make any noticeable difference to my sleeping, apparently, and it was the only way to get me to drink anything apart from tea as I detested milk, hated water and wouldn't touch squash or Ribena if my life depended upon it.

I can drink a coffee before bed, without any problems yet give me a can of monster and I feel dizzy and jittery and totally spaced out

There are two genetic variations that have been shown to affect how people cope with caffeine.

People that are very sensitive (like you op, and like me), often have both. There are things you can do to help - like eat brassicas when you have caffeine. But honestly, I don't think it's worth the effort. Water for the win!

I need it to function.
I had to fly out to grab some milk the other morning, 7am, no coffee, drove to the shop.
Got out the car at the shop and got out and walked into building. I'd left the engine running, keys in ignition.
Thank fuck I have an automatic handbrake.

Bed time coffee is one of my favourite things!!

I got insomnia when I STOPPED drinking espressos all day, including before bed. A weird quirk of ADHD.

But I also know many neurotypical folks who drink cup after cup with no issues.

That's definitely not my experience.

I could drink a cup of coffee/can of red bull and then go straight to bed. Caffeine doesn't seem to have any affect on me at all, in fact it's quite the opposite.

Strange!

I'm also one who could have a red bull now and be asleep by 11.

It'll take more than a bit of caffeine to stop me sleeping

Sounds like you're overly sensitive to it. I'm on the other side of the spectrum. I've been given a cup of coffee at bedtime all my life though out my childhood from when I was a toddler. Caffeine has zero impact on me now unsurprisingly.

@Frazzld I am super sensitive like you. If I have a cup of caffeinated coffee any time (when a coffee shop gets my order wrong) I bloody know about it. I get all jittery. I start to "come up" from the coffee mid cup and then feel almost panicking and breathless all afternoon. Even if I don't notice it (less strong coffee) then I'm insomniac at 4am thinking ah maybe that wasn't a decaf. I've been known to complain by email to highlight to shop staff how unpleasant the palpitations, stomach upset and insomnia can be.

I love diet coke and will drink it occasionally even though it ruins my sleep.

In the past caffeine and alcohol mix set my heart racing. I went from sat in a restaurant drinking a glass of wine to putting my head on the table because my heart was pounding.

I don't really understand how others can drink so much of it but I understand that for the regularly caffeinated they build up tolerance then need caffeine to get to the same state of alert that uncaffeinated people remain at all the time. I don't need a tea or coffee to get going in the morning.

I gave it up in my 20s because drinking coffee at work started to affect me. Then my tolerance reduced so I really felt it.

Coffee affects me far more than tea. I could easily drink 6-8 cups of tea with no ill effects. 2 coffees would have me on the brink of having the jitters, fidgeted and feeling unsettled.

It depends on your tolerance. I tolerate tea fine and I drink approx 6 mugs of strong tea across the course of the day. As soon as I have one coffee I feel completely wired and the effects last for hours. I cant drink coffee after 5pm or I'd really struggle to sleep but i drink tea up until bedtime. I also have similar effects from cola and I'd never dream of touching energy drinks - I'd have palpitations for days!

I drink decaf tea and coffee. I don't tolerate caffeine at all. Can't even drink coke... makes me feel so I'll.

I've been drinking tea since I was a little kid, maybe 7 or 8. When I first started drinking it, it would keep me awake but over time my tolerance has built up and now I can drink caffeine right before bed and go straight to sleep lol

Trying to think how many mugs of tea I drink.. on a work day maybe 6 big mugs? They're about 2/3 of the size of a sports direct one!
My mum mainlined tea her whole life, she was either drinking one, making one or just finished one. Weirdly when she got dementia she stopped drinking it totally, went off the taste

I have ADHD and I can have a double espresso and fall asleep 10 minutes later. I love the taste of coffee though and drink loads. A few
months ago I got a cold brew at a cafe, finished it and had the owner approaching me, very distressed because I had been given pure cold brew, no added water (by mistake, of course). He
was seriously concerned that I could be unwell,
get palpitations, faint etc. Nothing happened.

No experience of energy drinks - they all have a funny smell to me and I don’t think I could stomach one.

I can’t chug coffee all day, I get shakes and feel weak if I have 3 or 4 close together. I usually have 2 to 3 a day, but I can have one late at night and still sleep no problem.

I’m fine with drinking multiple strong coffees a day, if anything it relaxes me.
The shaking and insomnia thing is a mystery to

So what do u have in the mornings and tea time? Juice?

Posted too early! To me (though no doubt it’s the norm!) DH is the same too.

Dh swears ringtons caffine free teabags are identical to caffeinated ones. He couldnt tell the difference. I dont work for them just have an elderly relative who buys random items from ringtons man.

Never mind the horrible heart palpitations, 20 mins after a caffeine drink and I’m on the toilet with the ring of fire 🤣💩

Oh no! I'm going to hell for laughing at that😅😅

I'm not sensitive to it at all, doesn't really even pick me up and never has. I've stopped drinking coffee in the evenings because it gave me heartburn (along with a whole host of other things) but drink tea instead or hot ginger.
The only thing I would say is when I have a sinus infection or migraine (often as my RA treatment makes me more susceptible) I take my paracetamol with coffee as it works better. It's a well known effect as caffeine acts as an analgesic adjuvant and enhances the efficacy of paracetamol.