Tell me about Red Bull

I find I'm way more likely to get headaches when I don't caffeinate. Unfortunately, caffeine is the last thing someone with energy levels as erratic as mine needs. I spike and crash just fine without any stimulants, thank you very much.

If I really need it, I drink 5 hour energy or a similar "energy shot" type thing. I do love my colas though. Pepsi Throwback especially.

I drink red bull to help with either all nighters for school or in the shop. Nothing like 4 all nighters in 6 days and operating machinery. Thank god for energy drinks. In a two week, the team I was working with drank 24 Monsters and 48 5 Hour energies plus an assortment of Red Bull and Pimpjuice.

Streetwiseguy wrote: I drank one once, then I vibrated for about 24 hours. I haven't had the guts to try another.

I had the same reaction to a TNTea but never to a red bull

3Door4G wrote: I find I'm way more likely to get headaches when I don't caffeinate. Unfortunately, caffeine is the last thing someone with energy levels as erratic as mine needs. I spike and crash just fine without any stimulants, thank you very much. If I really need it, I drink 5 hour energy or a similar "energy shot" type thing. I do love my colas though. Pepsi Throwback especially.

the headaches from lack of caffeine is caffeine withdrawal.

Knurled wrote:

DILYSI Dave wrote: Caffine opens the blood vessels up. Helps the medicine do it's job.

Opening the blood vessels up, in and of itself, helps a migraine. I've had one since Tuesday. It was tolerable when I was at work, but yesterday it turned into a drill-holes-in-my-skull-to-let-the-demons-out bad. With blindness and skull numbness and left side numbness and the works. (ref. "reasons to not have children" for other thread - these are genetically related) I hate the thought of drinking that syrupy sickly crap, but if it might help them go away....

Maybe you should go nuclear on the situation and wash down a couple a viagra with a cocktail of every energy drink you can find....

I COMMAND YOU BLOOD VESSELS, OPEN!

GlennS wrote:

Streetwiseguy wrote: I drank one once, then I vibrated for about 24 hours. I haven't had the guts to try another.

I had the same reaction to a TNTea but never to a red bull

Energy drinks I can do just fine. I don't drink them much any more. However 5 hour energy makes me twitchy and I feel like I'm going through detox.

GlennS wrote: the headaches from lack of caffeine is caffeine withdrawal.

Not in my case. I've had chronic migraines since I was like 7. They've cleared up a lot since I got older, but stress and junk food can take it's toll if I'm not careful.

96DXCivic wrote: I drink red bull to help with either all nighters for school or in the shop. Nothing like 4 all nighters in 6 days and operating machinery. Thank god for energy drinks. In a two week, the team I was working with drank 24 Monsters and 48 5 Hour energies plus an assortment of Red Bull and Pimpjuice.

Can I have a pancreas when your team dies?

3Door4G wrote:

GlennS wrote: the headaches from lack of caffeine is caffeine withdrawal.

Not in my case. I've had chronic migraines since I was like 7. They've cleared up a lot since I got older, but stress and junk food can take it's toll if I'm not careful.

Caffeine withdrawal headaches are just headaches.

Migraines are something else entirely, and they aren't even painful sometimes. For instance, most of this morning, I wasn't in any pain, but I could only see off-and-on. You know what it's like to have double vision? Picture the exact opposite - instead of the brain failing to eliminate the extraneous data, it eliminates ALL of it...

The fun part is, that taking caffeine to eliminate migraines can lead to a caffeine headache if you stop.

Its a tumor.

I wish. Tumors can be removed, or at least kill you decently quickly.

Appleseed wrote:

96DXCivic wrote: I drink red bull to help with either all nighters for school or in the shop. Nothing like 4 all nighters in 6 days and operating machinery. Thank god for energy drinks. In a two week, the team I was working with drank 24 Monsters and 48 5 Hour energies plus an assortment of Red Bull and Pimpjuice.

Can I have a pancreas when your team dies?

I am glad no ones face ended up in a lathe.

Appleseed wrote: Its a tumor.

It's not a tumor!!!

I love the stuff, but strangely can go months without touching it.

and now for the Webber reference.

Aldis sells a pretty decent red bull clone for like $.50 a can, and a monster clone for under a dollar. I love Aldi.