Over-caffeinated, your tips?

[Excited Penguin]

I am over-caffeinated due to having consumed too much coffee on an empty stomach.  

This has never happened to me before, and I am trying to stay calm despite being jittery as heck and worried.  I had to leave work early because I was getting weaker, tired, and felt as though I was going to pass out if I kept exerting myself.

What are your tips for better dealing with this?

Left work early because you drank too much caffeine? What a load of shit. Have you no shame?

Here's a tip. Don't ever work for me, because I would fire your stupid ass. Too much caffeine, Jesus tits. You're a perfect example why raising the minimum wage 'just because' is an extremely bad idea. Self-inflicted non-malady warrants time off = unreliable. Disgusting.

I can't help but consider single mothers busting their asses working 2-3 jobs and getting through it by inhaling caffeine, yet you get some jitters and have to leave work. Fucking hell. Just sad beyond measure.

That's a little too harsh. People are different, they react to the same things differently. Maybe just chill, ok?

[Cato]

That's a little too harsh. People are different, they react to the same things differently. Maybe just chill, ok?

Fuck off. You also have zero appreciation for the challenges many people grind through on a daily basis just to make ends meet that make the 'too much caffeine' excuse offensive. Truly sad.

Also, if someone was so different that their tolerance of the intake of normal amounts of caffeine (empty stomach be damned) was so outside the bounds of normal experience, they should consult a fucking doctor and not seek remedy and pity from an online forum. This is so far astray of anything approaching a work ethic that I'm still holding out hope that this is all a joke.

[Excited Penguin]

That's a little too harsh. People are different, they react to the same things differently. Maybe just chill, ok?

Fuck off. You also have zero appreciation for the challenges many people grind through on a daily basis just to make ends meet that make the 'too much caffeine' excuse offensive. Truly sad.

Also, if someone was so different that their tolerance of the intake of normal amounts of caffeine (empty stomach be damned) was so outside the bounds of normal experience, they should consult a fucking doctor and not seek remedy and pity from an online forum. This is so far astray of anything approaching a work ethic that I'm still holding out hope that this is all a joke.

Ok, I can see what you're saying is definitely retarded, but it's so retarded, I don't even know where to begin.


Tell us, Mr. Perfect, tell us about an average day in your life. Let us look at the perfect shit you do that makes you go insane over the fact that some random stranger excused himself from work because of drinking too much caffeine.


You know what I think? You've either got something against the OP for some other reason, or you're a little too emotional about this because of some shit that happened in your personal life. Whichever it is, get over it, will you, 'cause this is just fucking pathetic, don't make me dissect this stupidity, it's beneath both of us. And that's the last time I'll let you get away with biting my head off for inviting you to chill, you fucking cunt.

[SteelCurtain]

No coffee for a week for either of you, sheesh.

[Aroura]

That's a little too harsh. People are different, they react to the same things differently. Maybe just chill, ok?

Fuck off. You also have zero appreciation for the challenges many people grind through on a daily basis just to make ends meet that make the 'too much caffeine' excuse offensive. Truly sad.

Also, if someone was so different that their tolerance of the intake of normal amounts of caffeine (empty stomach be damned) was so outside the bounds of normal experience, they should consult a fucking doctor and not seek remedy and pity from an online forum. This is so far astray of anything approaching a work ethic that I'm still holding out hope that this is all a joke.

I sincerely pity every single one of your employees.  Sincerely and deeply.


I've had bad caffeine jitters, and now I know to avoid all coffee and tea except in passingly small amounts.  It can give some people a panic attack, which just feels like you are going to die at any moment, and mental health is as important as physical.
I'm sure Mael will learn from his experience.  Thanks the FSM he has a decent boss who isn't trying hard to emulate Ebenezer Scrooge, and gives a shit about his employees well being!

[paulpablo]

Just to offer some vary perspective on this.

Maelstrom has said before that caffeine makes him jittery and weak and like he's going to have a panic attack.
So I don't know why you'd take it in work if you know the consequences.
I get bad side effects from caffeine and I work with a free coffee machine and lots of people asking me do I want them to get me a coffee that I just say no to everytime.

On the other hand it's not unheard of in a work place for someone to be unneeded who feels crap and gets to go home early if it's quiet, this isn't rare in retail especially.

On the other hand again with it being the situation that you have a pretty kind boss and if you can go home after drinking a coffee that doesn't agree with you it's an indication that you're not the lynch pin of the organization there, and possibly don't add enough value to the company to earn above minimum wage or whatever it is you do earn. But this is just speculation.

[LastPoet]

Strangely I drink like 6 double cofees per day. Does me nothing. I even drink a double before sleep. I have a great caffeine tolerance, its my idea of it.

[I_am_not_mafia]

I'm hypersensitive to caffeine, and the less I drink the more sensitive I become when I finally do drink some. It needs to be an emergency now for me to drink a cup of coffee. Like if I have had to take an allergy tablet which has made me extremely drowsy for example.

I personally just put up with the symptoms but have had to deal with the feeling of my head about to explode and the heart palpitations. But I've never had panic attacks, but then I'd never have more than one coffee in a day unless I had built up a tolerance over time.

I've always relied on alcohol to allow me to unwind after drinking coffee.

When I first moved to Germany I built up a tolerance to 2 double coffees a day, one in the morning and one after lunch. But my sleep patterns were wrecked so when I visited my parents for Christmas I stopped drinking caffeine that same day and didn't have another coffee until half a year later.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Left work early because you drank too much caffeine? What a load of shit. Have you no shame?

Here's a tip. Don't ever work for me, because I would fire your stupid ass. Too much caffeine, Jesus tits. You're a perfect example why raising the minimum wage 'just because' is an extremely bad idea. Self-inflicted non-malady warrants time off = unreliable. Disgusting.

I can't help but consider single mothers busting their asses working 2-3 jobs and getting through it by inhaling caffeine, yet you get some jitters and have to leave work. Fucking hell. Just sad beyond measure.

I think Mr Grumpy needs a hug.

[brewer]

Clinical approach.

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/821863-overview