Luckily there are some brands out on the market that are just as tasty as unleaded!
I’m the same. Coffee makes me jittery, but there are no positive effects. I’ve been trying to drink it on a daily basis lately, hoping to buid up my tolerance, but so far nothing.
I drink Diet Pepsi right before bed and sleep just fine. I wake up without that sleep drugged feeling and get a large coffee on the way to work. I drink 2 Diet Pepsis at lunch and another at dinner and before bed.
I pee a lot.
It’s clear clear yellow.
I sleep 9 hours a night.
If I don’t drink a Diet Pepsi, I have a headache by 3pm.
I carry Diet Pepsi 20 oz plastic bottles in my trunk.
I am a happy addict without jitters.
I never noticed that caffeine had any effect on me until the last few years.
I drank about a six-pack or so of Mountain Dew every day for years, never noticed any effect at all, even if I happen to skip two or three days. On weekdays, I did drink it in the morning as a wake-up drink, but I think it was more ritual and the ice-cold part than the caffeine that woke me up. This continued up until I was about 46 or so.
I’m 51 now, and while I don’t notice any huge rush from caffeinated drinks, I do seem to notice I don’t sleep quite as well if I have caffeine after 3:00 pm or so.
I know several people who have said the same thing: Never noticed much effect from caffeine until they hit their mid to late forties.
I only notice caffeine if I have given it up for months. Otherwise I don’t really notice an effect.
Same here. It seems to do nothing for me.
I do get withdrawal symptoms if I go without for more than a couple days. But I’ve never had any kind of detectable increase in energy from caffeine.
Once I took some caffeine pills because I hadn’t slept the night before. Swallowed them. Went to class. Fifteen minutes later, I was sound asleep.
-FrL-
Caffeine doesn’t seem to do anything for me either. If I want to stay up longer I’ll grab a Pepsi or something, but I think it’s the sugar rather than the caffeine that’s affecting me. I’ve been through periods where I’ve drank a lot, and some where I didn’t drink any, and there was no difference for me.
It does zip for me. In fact, it almost has the opposite effect. I can eat a big chunk of chocolate cake and have a coffee and go to bed right after and fall asleep right away. I don’t drink pop - I find it boring and dislike the taste of most pop. My beverages are milk (plain or chocolate), green tea, and one or two decaf coffees per day, which I started drinking in the last year because of caffeine’s effects on my bosoms.
I’m amazed. I had no idea there are so many people who aren’t affected by caffeine. My reactions, BTW, are pretty much middle of the road.
I used to think that caffeine never really affected me until I stopped drinking soda pop completely. Before then I would drink at least one pop per day (Regular, fully loaded pop, none of that diet stuff), sometimes more. I stopped drinking pop and now I notice that I have a hard time sleeping if I have pop in the evening a few hours before bed.
So yes, I notice a very big difference if I have a pop.
I used to drink 4 or 5 diet cokes a day & several cups of coffee, never got any sort of buzz or high from them and never had trouble sleeping. These days I am caffeine free, I had zero trouble giving it up, and the only affect I have noticed is that my heartrate is about 10 beats a minute better off.
Let me see if I remember this correctly. Caffeine is primarily an adenosine receptor antagonist[1]. The drop in adenosine receptor activation tends to elevate dopamine[2], resulting in CNS stimulation[3].
If you are claiming you are immune to the effects of caffeine then logically you are claiming to most likely be immune to [1], [2] or [3]. If you are immune to [3] (CNS stimulation from dopamine activity increase) I would venture a guess you are also partially immune to the effects of d-amphetamine and cocaine(not that I’m suggesting you go out and try them without a prescription). However, if any of those claiming to be immune to caffeine had a prior experience, it’d be interesting if you could comment.
I get a better wake-me-up from orange juice or, surprisingly, ice-cold cola than I do from coffee. I drink the froo-froo coffee concoctions from the local cafe because they taste good, but I don’t get a coffee buzz.
There was one exception – we were having a late brunch in a friend’s back yard one Sunday morning, sitting and talking and drinking coffee, and I didn’t realize that I’d drunk a good three or four cups of pretty strong coffee. About 1 p.m., I started feeling funny – my heart was racing, I was sweating and I was having a serious anxiety attack – and all I was doing was driving on a wide-open highway. I told my wife about it and we soon figured out that I had a serious case of coffee jitters. Other than that, however – nothin’.
groman, while I don’t claim to be immune from caffeine, I don’t notice any effect from it. To answer your question, I have tried cocaine twice in the distant past. The others doing the same seemed to be getting the desired effect, but I was just sitting there, waiting for it to take effect, and it never did. I came to the conclusion that I ought to just throw money down the toilet for all the good it was doing me to spend it on cocaine. I never touched it again.
I’m self-employed and work at home. I tend to get up very early in the morning and have a big cup of extremely strong coffee. After several hours of work I stop and take a nap for a couple hours. The coffee doesn’t keep me from falling asleep.
Before the nap my brain is working only about 80%. There are things that I just can’t deal with until after my nap. Then I can deal with anything. But . . . if for whatever reason I don’t have that coffee in the morning, I continue at 80%, even after the nap. For the rest of the day I’m just not good at things that require total alertness.
So the coffee matters, but not for a while and not by itself.
I have a big mug of coffee first thing in the morning and it does wake me up. However, if I get sleepy during the rest of the day I don’t find that caffeine helps at all. It just makes me sleepy and twitchy.
There are many people who practically worship coffee/caffeine for its life-saving properties, but I’ve often wondered if that “effect” was mostly the power of suggestion. For me, caffeine makes me a tad restless if I consume a lot of it right before bed. I’m still tired, but not able to sleep.
I’ve never heard of this. Maybe I should avoid caffeine, since I’m male. I’d prefer my bosoms to remain unaffected.
Charger, what it can do is cause/increase benign cysts in women’s breasts. They can be uncomfortable and make it harder to do accurate screening for not so benign things. Coffee used to do that to me but I found that after I had a couple of kids it no longer had any effect. I don’t use much, though.