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caffiene overdose

please keep anon it's pretty embarrassing and i know people on here..

okay so last night whilst drinking i thought it would be a good idea to take 7 (or more i'm not sure) pro plus in the space of half and hour.. i was convulsing, vomiting, passing out and had heart palpitations.. my friends called an ambulance and i spent the night in a&e for observation although i didn't have to have my stomach pumped or anything.. anyways apparently i have a heart murmur i need to get checked out.. anyone been in a similar situation? i'm still hyper now and my heart is beating quite rapidly.. i'm quite scared to be honest, just wondered if anyone had any advice? i know it was a completely stupid thing to do..

Reply 1

Tootles

21

It'll blow over, don't worry. Caffiene does affect people in different ways depending on tolerance. From personal experience, go out for a walk. Take a friend if you're afraid of passing out or whatever, but go for a nice long walk and drink loads of water. When you've got over the effects of the caffiene, go to bed and have a good long sleep.

Reply 2

Titanomachy

13

People shouldn't be cushioned from the consequences of their stupidity.

We should give people three strikes, then no more free emergency healthcare for self inflicted injury and illness along these lines.

Reply 3

Spacecam

15

Just drink loads of water.

Beware though, caffeine can act as a diuretic - so you'll wee more :wink:

Reply 4

Bexxxx

14

Yeh, just carry on as normal.

Reply 5

Renal

17

A little old lady who overdoses because she can't remember whether she takes four pink tablets and one white or four white tablets and one pink is understandable...

Reply 6

bombproof_girl

i took like 9 pro plus and red bull in like 10 mins. I personally didn't notice a diffrence. It does affect people differently though. Lay down for a bit and have deep breaths to calm down.

Reply 7

Kabloomybuzz

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titanomachy

People shouldn't be cushioned from the consequences of their stupidity.

We should give people three strikes, then no more free emergency healthcare for self inflicted injury and illness along these lines.

What a stupid thing to say. Clearly you dont understant Some peoples reasons for harming themselves.

Reply 8

as cruel as school children

10

titanomachy

People shouldn't be cushioned from the consequences of their stupidity.

We should give people three strikes, then no more free emergency healthcare for self inflicted injury and illness along these lines.

how ironic.. when i negged you, i called you a tit, without even realising your username was tit anyway

Reply 9

Gourdman

as cruel school children

how ironic.. when i negged you, i called you a tit, without even realising your username was tit anyway

Why would you neg him for that? Clearly it was meant at a joke, and twas pretty funny.

Reply 10

Renal

17

Kabloomybuzz

What a stupid thing to say. Clearly you dont understant Some peoples reasons for harming themselves.

Is this a crap attempt at self-harm or is this drunken stupidity?

Reply 11

Anonymous #1

OP

yeah it was drunken stupidity but i think it was the fact my heart is a bit **** that made me so bad.. my friends took the same amount and were fine.. the consultant did ask if it was a suicide attempt which struck me as a little odd.. not sure how many people would think of caffeine as a way to end their life??

i agree about wasting resources for the hospital and stuff.. but then you could go into if you go skiing and break your leg you shouldn't be allowed treatment cos you chose to go skiing and knew the risks.. what i did was incredibly dumb but ive had plenty of lectures already.. thanks for all the advice guys.. my heart is pounding.. im just gonna take it easy for a while.. still haven't slept :|

Reply 12

as cruel as school children

10

Gourdman

Why would you neg him for that? Clearly it was meant at a joke, and twas pretty funny.

Well clearly, it wasn't clear to everyone..

Kabloomybuzz also thought it was a bollx statement..

Plus there's a time & place for people's sarcastic schidt..

Additonally, negs don't hurt anyone. Unless of course, people's lives revolve around tSR

Reply 13

Apocalypte

12

Anonymous

yeah it was drunken stupidity but i think it was the fact my heart is a bit **** that made me so bad.. my friends took the same amount and were fine.. the consultant did ask if it was a suicide attempt which struck me as a little odd.. not sure how many people would think of caffeine as a way to end their life??:|

LD50 for caffeine is about 10g of the stuff anyway. You probably hadn't built much of a tolerance to caffeine - but it does affect different people in different ways. For someone like me - it takes 4-5 ProPlus to have any effect at all, and in fact taking 2 ProPlus has put me asleep.

Reply 14

kookie_4

1

Medically caffiene is classified as a poison and can kill if you have more than 10g in a day but thats about 200 cups of coffee so not likely. I once drank about 14 single espressos when i was working at starbucks in about the space of an hour and a half, had to go home cos i was sick :frown:

Reply 15

Shadow devil

ok lets start off with the real facts now,
caffeine is a drug, and with most drugs your body will get hooked,
i suffer from a little thing called insomnia where i dont sleep for days ive been up once for about 96 hours on a go, caffeine is not a good thing to use when you need start to fall alseep just sleep its the best thing for any thing,
now for the person who put i took 9 pills and 10 redbull in half hour or what ever it was, your a lier lol thats way to much caffeine and that should have killed you thats way 2 much, ok its like drinking 100 cups of caffeine your going to be sick, really hot and then well worm food.
suffering from insomnia caffeine is a bad thing to do.
its easy 2 much caffeine will kill you your body needs the sleep to fix illness and other damage done to you.
please feel free to ask me more on this

shadow the devil

Reply 16

username104603

0

14

Shadow devil

ok lets start off with the real facts now,
caffeine is a drug, and with most drugs your body will get hooked,
i suffer from a little thing called insomnia where i dont sleep for days ive been up once for about 96 hours on a go, caffeine is not a good thing to use when you need start to fall alseep just sleep its the best thing for any thing,
now for the person who put i took 9 pills and 10 redbull in half hour or what ever it was, your a lier lol thats way to much caffeine and that should have killed you thats way 2 much, ok its like drinking 100 cups of caffeine your going to be sick, really hot and then well worm food.
suffering from insomnia caffeine is a bad thing to do.
its easy 2 much caffeine will kill you your body needs the sleep to fix illness and other damage done to you.
please feel free to ask me more on this

shadow the devil

Lies. I lethal dose of caffeine is about 150mg per kg of body mass. Each proplus contains 50 mg, so that's 450mg from there. Red Bull has 32mg/100ml so 10 cans would have 32*2.5*10=800mg. That's a total of 1250mg, so unless the poster weighs less than 9 kilos they won't be dead.

Why bump an old thread to spout blatant lies?

Reply 17

frostynips

old thread, but thought I'd share an old experience.

Went to a rave when I was 17 and popped about 100 pro plus tabs. I'd got it into my head that caffeine could be a substitute for speed, though it probably cost me 10x more to buy the party size pot of pro-plus.

Felt pretty hyper for about an hour, but crashed and burned with violent nausea and stomach cramps. Was puking up for about eight hours!

Still... even with 100 pro plus, it was only about 50% of a fatal dose, though I had no clue about toxicity etc at the time. Felt like I was dying all the same!

Anyway, 20 years later I'm still not especially tolerant of caffeine. Got into the habit of chain drinking coffee at work and started noticing palpatations late in the working day when I'd drank too much. Having your heart skip a few beats after drinking 30 coffees is scary sh!te!

As with anything... moderation!

Reply 18

StephenP91

3

I have take 10 pro plus tabs in about 5 minutes, I'll feel nothing.

Reply 19

INTit

17

I remember at uni I had about 3 mugs of coffee then took about 5 or 6 pro plus as It wasnt working. Instead of fighting off the fatigue it just caused stomache pains.

Pro plus is crap.In my experience best thing to do is go to to a supermarket and buy a 1.5 litre of cheap "Blue charge" or equivelent.

(edited 14 years ago)

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