I just swallowed my first bottle of that stuff and WTF??? I thought it was a time-release kinda thing?!
In about 30 seconds or so, my scalp started prickling and now I have a monster-headache and I’m nauseous.:smack:
Guess I learned something: stay away from that shit.:rolleyes::mad:
Q
There’s not anything time-released about it, it just dumps a bunch of B-vitamins into your belly. That flushing and tingling you’re feeling is from the 80 kajillion milligrams of niacin coursing through you.
I drank half a bottle once because I was so tired I could barely keep myself upright at my machine (at work). After I drank it, I had the most productive 5 minutes of my life. Then I started shaking so badly that I had to sit down for an hour because the product I was building was coming out all wonky.
Never touching that shit again.
I’ve tried it twice, and it nothing for me. Not a thing. I might as well have drank water.
Joe
/PSA
Those types of products have a potential to cause very bad things to happen to people on certain medications, particularly psych meds. They were vehemently contraindicated for the population I most recently worked with, especially ones with any kind of heart/BP issue.
/PSA
I looked at it once just to see the ingredients. It’s 80 times the RDA of B6 and B12, plus an “energy blend” of several things – the only one I recognized in the blend was the fourth item, caffeine.
It’s much more efficient and much cheaper to take a B-complex vitamin and wash it down with a large mug of Turkish coffee.
Along with around 80mg of caffeine, unless you drink the decaffeinated version. I prefer shoving NoDoz up my ass, personally.
Does it have what plants crave?
I bought a couple bottles because they were on sale & I was curious. I’ll have the occasional low-carb or no-carb Monster Energy Drink, maaaybe once or twice a week, on those hard-to-start mornings.
This 5-Hour Energy was supposedly “grape flavored.” Yeeccch. Nasty, sharp taste, but fortunately there’s not a lot of it. Didn’t notice much of anything apart from the taste. Not even a flush. I’ve taken niacin before & it felt like an instant sunburn, but nothin’ from 5HE.
Love that stuff! I don’t drink it often, only when I’m desperate but it gets the job done when I do.
Shit put me in the Emergency Room.
Drank it, and shortly thereafter, started sweating profusely. Heart started acting funny. Stood up, and was dizzy.
Connected myself to a blood pressure monitor. Got the read-out: 187/120.
That can’t be right. Asked a co-worker to reposition the cuff because it’s hard to put on yourself.
New readout: 193/134.
Uh, huh. By now my heart has a reason to act funny. It started to beat erratically. BOOM…BOOM…BOOMBOOMBOOM…BOOM…
Hello ER. Luckily it was just a few doors down the hall.
Had an EKG there while I told them about what I drank. It seemed like they didn’t believe me, and they kept hinting that I might have ingested something else? “No street drugs?” “No recreational drugs?”
No, dammit. Just 5 Hour Energy!
After a short while my heart started to mellow out, and my BP starrted edging back down. After a couple of hours I was back to normal.
Screw that shit. I’m never drinking it again until the zombie apocalypse and I have to outrun Olympic-class brain feeders.
i am cornholio!, are you threatening me?
It works great for me. The other energy drinks get me jittery and just generally uncomfortable. 5 Hour Energy gives me a very gentle and sustained energy boost. Perfect for going out late.
Same here. Tasted nasty, had no effect.
Then again, Red Bull doesn’t give me wings either. I like the taste but don’t notice any energy increase.
Must be metabolic differences from person to person. I can drink a quadruple espresso drink right befoire bedtime (not tyhat I regularly do this) and sleep like a baby all night.
I have often looked at these things and been tempted 'cause I’m a whore for substances. Now I know why I never picked one up. I just KNEW that it would screw me up. I’m really susceptible to speedy-type crap (except I can and do drink Coke like it’s water with no ill effects…just don’t ask me my BMI). And I’m on some psych meds to boot. I would have been on the gurney right next to you! Sounds truly awful and an experience that I can and have had all by myself au naturel when the anxiety gets amped up!
Damn, Rys. You just scared me out of EVER taking another one. I’m glad you’re okay!
A chastened Quasi
I took it once thinking the caffeine would help my headache. Threw it up about 2 minutes later. Never again.
The commercial said something like it has enough caffeine as five cups of coffee. If that’s the case, then why not just gradually drink five cups over an extended period of time, Quasi?
wishes she could have caffeine I don’t want to THINK about what this shit would do to me!
I don’t like coffee, Guin. 
Plus, I need my ass kicked for even trying it, but I’m sleeping poorly and we had company for lunch today, so I thought “WTF, let’s give it a go.”
Q
No, the commercial says it has “about as much caffeine as a cup of premium coffee”, which would be in line with 80mg. Definitely not five cups.