5 Hour Energy

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@picunurse

80 mg is about 1/3 the caffeine in coffee. That’s how much is in one regular Coke.
Here is a caffeine chart 5 Hour Energy isn’t listed. I read elsewhere it has about 40 mg.
Also, the amount of niacin is 1/10 of what is recommended for triglyceride control. It isn’t actually niacin, but niacinamide which doesn’t cause the flushing one experiences with niacin.

There certainly may be adverse drug interactions that should be discussed with one’s doctor before using any OTC medicine or herbal supplements.
People think that because something can be purchased without supervision, it must be ok to take. If you take perscription medications PLEASE ask your healthcare provider about anything not prescribed before swallowing it.

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And you are terribly misinformed as to the caffeine content in one coke. It’s not even half of what you are claiming.

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@Scuba_Ben

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.

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Therein lies the problem. The nice thing (if you’re not the type has bad reactions to it) is that it’s just a couple of little sips. I generally stay away from energy drinks because they can tend to mess with the old blood pressure for some of us. But once in a great while, when half dead, I resort to them (and yes, I DO get the 2:30 slumps like the ad talks about, I get the 2:30 comatose is more like it). And I drink coffee and take B-vitamins, D-vitamins, and a magnesium/calcium mix. Neither have the same effect on me as one of those little 5 hour energy drinks.

I love them. I hate narcotic type things, I’m super susceptible to them, several of them that are only supposed to be muscle relaxers or pain relievers or whatever, will often put me out for hours and then take a couple of days to completely leave my system. I hate that groggy feeling, I’m always joking about “I’m tired enough on my own, I don’t need something to put me out”.

But energy type drinks? It’s as if it takes a TON of it to help me wake up even a little bit. So, at least for me, these 5 hour energy drinks help a bunch. I could drink two Rockstars a day easy without it affecting me in the least re: sleep or getting the shakes. I just don’t do it because my doc will yell at me.

[Guinastasia]

One thing I miss about caffeine is that it always helped when I had a bad headache. (Caffeine shrinks the blood vessels, so they’re no longer pressing on your nerve endings)

My mother drinks Pepsi when she gets migraines.

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@wheresgeorge04

I’ve tried it twice, and it nothing for me. Not a thing. I might as well have drank water.

Joe

Same here. Did nothing.