To ask if this is an excessive amount of caffine?

[TraceyTheHamster]

I don’t think so, but someone today acted totally shocked when I told them how many hot drinks I have a day.

On a workday, I’d usually have:

• 2 or 3 cups of coffee before I set off in the morning; depends how early I get up.
• 3 or 4 cups of tea at work spaced through the day - one when I first get in, one mid morning, one at lunch and sometimes one mid afternoon depending on how late I take my lunch
• A cup of tea when I get in from work
• Sometimes a cup of Horlicks or chocolate before bed.

Seeing it written down now, I acknowledge it’s not a small amount but surely not enough to warrant a literal “Oh my God!” response?

That number of drinks spread throughout an entire day it is about the same as me, although I do switch to decaf in the evenings otherwise it can keep me awake.

But I don't have to drink three coffees one after the other to get going in the morning, and that is probably overdoing the caffeine over a short period of time.

I have 5 big mugs of tea a day at least, I do make sure 1-2 are decaf though
Sometimes can be more

Just the clarify - the morning coffees aren’t all being chugged one after the other. I’ll tend to get up at about an hour and half before I leave for work - so it’s spread across that time!

They'd be horrified at me then. I drink 25+ teas and coffees a day. What you have is a normal amount for alot of people I reckon. I have had days where I've reached 30 easily. I pretty much run on caffeine 😁

I think it is a high amount of caffeine OP

I'm not judging, I don't drink coffee, but in terms of tea I can get through the same amount of hot drinks per day as you if I'm based in the office.

I have found that swapping in some non caffeinated herbal teas, such as peppermint, can help me cut down as I still get the 'feeling' of hot drink (and improves hydration)

Wow I'd be on the toilet all day. I'm
Super sensitive to caffeine though.

It’s only about 90mg over isn’t it? And it depends how strong the tea and coffee are.

I don't seem to be on the toilet as much as you'd think I would really. Ive been drinking that much caffeine since I was a teen 🤣

Also - to answer a couple of PPs: it’s filter coffee in the morn.

What sort of coffee is that though do you know, or doesn't it matter? I only really drink the instant stuff.

You must have a bladder like a camel!

Sounds at the high end of normal but all that matters is the effect on you - you feel fine so I wouldn’t worry.

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I still can’t work out how you fit three in. How long does it take to make, cool and drink a coffee: 20minutes? So ten minutes after finishing a coffee you’re making another coffee?

I like it milky so no need to wait for it to cool really.

i have one when I very first get up, one with breakfast and sometimes one just before I leave.

I drink at least eight large mugs of tea every day, often more, and usually two or three Diet Cokes.

So ten minutes after finishing a coffee you’re making another coffee?

I don't understand why this would be a problem. I pretty much just have a tea on the go all the time. At work I've got two mugs, so if I'm in the middle of a cuppa when someone else offers to do a tea round, I don't have to decline another one and will be able to have another tea waiting when I finish the current one.

I didn’t say it was a problem. I just couldn’t work out how to fit them in the timeframe.

3 diet cokes a day though…. I would say that is a problem…

I drink at least eight large mugs of tea every day, often more, and usually two or three Diet Cokes.

This is me! I have caffeinated drinks late in the day too- like 11pm- and have no problem falling straight to sleep afterwards. I have been drinking tea since I was a child.

I have read speculation that people with ADHD are affected differently by caffeine and although I do not have a diagnosis, I have good reason to suspect I have ADHD.

what’s your diet like? @Devilsmommy

I drink the same amount in the day @TraceyTheHamster & I have a cast iron bladder.

I can have a cup of coffee at bedtime & I'll still be out like a light.

@Waitingfordoggo I have an ADHD referral.
So perhaps it is an ADHD thing, as if you think about it caffeine is a stimulant just like ADHD meds are

I can EASILY put away that many coffees and teas each day.

I'd like to cut down but I'd be too tired.

It's the toddlers in pushchairs I see drinking cans of RB and Monster! WIFW with these idiotic parents?

• 2 or 3 cups of coffee before I set off in the morning; depends how early I get up.
• 3 or 4 cups of tea at work spaced through the day - one when I first get in, one mid morning, one at lunch and sometimes one mid afternoon depending on how late I take my lunch
• A cup of tea when I get in from work
• Sometimes a cup of Horlicks or chocolate before bed.

9 hot drinks a day is huge to me. I average one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

Got to have a very strong coffee in the mornings. Especially when 3 of my 5 shifts in the week I now start at 7am. Before then, it was just 1 a week.

Bring my own coffee to work as the vending machine coffee is weak. The previous machine, you could change strength of coffee and milk.

Probably best not thought about 😳🤣🤣🤣🤣