I, too, like my coffee like I like my women: bottomless and Irish.
All kidding aside – well, no, that wasn’t me kidding, it was literally true – if that’s just the placebo effect kicking in when I’ve made use of espresso beans, then I’m so good at the placebo effect that it’s apparently a superpower.
I drink about 10 cups a day, on the few occasions I don’t have access I don’t notice anything to speak of beyond very minor agitation.
I just ordered some. 
Thanks for the mention, I hadn’t heard of this yet. Much hype, very excited.
I drink about 2-3 cups of coffee daily and have since I was about 8. As I get older, I seem to feel the effects of caffeine and sugar more strongly - I get jittery if I have too much more than 2-3 cups of coffee when having 5+ never affected me at all in my 30s and before. But I can’t stop drinking coffee because I love the smell and the morning ritual of it so much. If I don’t have my quiet time and coffee in the morning, the rest of the day seems off. Oh, and I get a massive withdrawal headache around 10 or 11 in the morning that just won’t go away.
According to Caffeine Informer, Death Wish has 728mg per 12 oz.
FWIW, I don’t drink coffee, tea, or soft drinks, but I occasionally take a caffeine tablet if I feel myself getting drowsy during a long drive, and it wakes me right up.
Not only does coffee work for me, but if I substitute a mild tea–say, Earl Grey which is relatively low in caffeine–I feel the same as if I didn’t have any caffeinated drink at all. Yep, the monkey’s on my back, to be sure.
In the news:
Study says four cups of coffee per day can lower risk of death
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I can absolutely feel a difference. About ten minutes after I have a Tim’s, I feel distinctly energized, to the extent that it often takes me by surprise; I actually find myself sometimes thinking “huh, I feel different. Oh, right, must be the coffee.” It also makes me have to poo.
If I drink later in the day, I have trouble sleeping at night.
That said, of course I could function without it, I mean, Christ, it’s not meth. People can get a little silly.
During my bad time, I often thought “If I can get up and get down to the 7-eleven for that cup of coffee, I can make it through the day.” And it worked.
Even now, if I’m depressed I get a cup of Brazilian Dark Roast and take a walk.
Coffee makes me less depressed. Even if it’s a placebo effect, I am not giving it.
you can buy refillable K-cups and take in your own brew.
Group response to most of the above -
I have been drinking coffee since I was 8 or 9 years old, my husband was career Navy and drank coffee himself from a young age. We have been known to blow through a pound of coffee of a random Saturday morning sitting on the computers killing shit [he also plays MMORPGs, the family that slays together stays together =) ] and we both seem to have quite a tolerance built up. That being said, I can go without coffee, tea or other sources of caffeine [not into sodas but sometimes they are the only thing to drink on a road trip if the ice tea is old and soured from sitting and waiting to be served] and suffer no ill effects so apparently I am not addicted to caffeine, but then again I also dropped morphine cold turkey in hospital once [I decided I was tired of feeling all fuzzy, and the pain was what I deemed controllable with something like ibuprophin] so it may simply be me. I have high blood pressure [unmedicated it pops to 210/190 so I try to not go unmedicated ever.] and my cardiologist tracked my BP with and without caffeine to determine I might as well mainline caffeine - my echocardiogram demonstrated that at the age of 53 [when it started] I had no placques, no irregularities in blood vessels or heart muscles, everything was textbook perfect so the BP issue seems to be something in the wiring of my brain. I am someone who can do a triple espresso and wander off to sleep [once back in the days when drugs and sex were fun and safe, the 70s I tried coke, told my BF of hte time it did nothing for me, so he told me it wasn’t the ‘good stuff’ so I tried the good stuff and all it did was put my front teeth to sleep. I would rather spend the $200US at a dentist, at least I would get something positive out of it.]
So my order arrived yesterday, and I had my first cuppa this morning. I don’t think I’ve blinked all morning and I made it half way to work before I released I forgot my car.
I might need to use smaller cups.
Started drinking coffee in grad school. Haven’t stopped yet. I do have a physical dependence on it, which is unfortunate. If I go all weekend without it I’ll have a bad headache on Sunday afternoon and will need some to help go to sleep.
Over time I suspect that you develop a tolerance to the point where you’re not any better with coffee than you were without it. At least, for normal people.
My dad has narcolepsy, though, and swears by caffeinated beverages to augment his anafranil–which he can’t get two a day even though that would help him a lot more.
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So you get to decide who’s normal based on what you suspect? And then you provide an anecdote that contradicts your suspicion?
Do you really not see how this is (1) pointless (2) mildly but annoyingly offensive?
I can skip coffee for one day with no ill effects but on day two I get a monstrous headache. I bought some caffiene pills for when I do skip a cuppa on the weekend.