Over-caffeinated, your tips?

[Paraselene]

Now that I feel much better today, I can better explain yesterday's situation.

I shall start by stating that I am rather hyper sensitive to caffeine due to the fact that I last regularly drank it was roughly twenty years ago when I was a teenager.

I only recently started drinking coffee, and I thought that I had a handle on it. Clearly not.

Before I started drinking coffee yesterday, I also had not eaten anything in approximately twenty-four hours. I should have known better.

So I overloaded on coffee on a very empty stomach.

The jitters were so intensely powerful later that afternoon that I literally thought I was having a heart attack. My left hand was going numb and the numbness was attempting to travel up my left arm.

I had been drinking water regularly since the coffee, but apparently that did nothing to prevent the jitters when they hit. The problem had been the empty stomach.

I tried to eat something, but it was basically too late at that point for it to really help me. I tried to ride it out for several hours, trying to do my job. I kept becoming weaker, feverish, I almost passed out a few times, and finally when there was only twenty minutes left till we closed the department I asked if I could leave.

I got home and I ate something while continuing to drink water. My eyelids were extremely heavy though my heart rate was still rather high. My heart rate did not return to normal until around 2am, and shortly after that I was capable of periodic spurts of sleep.

I do feel much better today, and I have realized that coffee just is not my thing. Even though I did not have to give up caffeine when I was a teenager, it is apparent that my low tolerance for it at this stage of my life is not worth risking my life.

Thank you all for your responses and the help you offered.