...but you would have to drink a lot of coffee for that to happen. How much? If you weigh 150 lbs and you're trying to kill yourself with a Starbucks tall latte, it would take about 293 cups in order to die from the caffeine overdose. Red Bull is a bit stronger. It would take 127 cans to kill you from caffeine alone. Even if you could afford the hefty pricetag, there's a really good chance water intoxication or another ingredient would kill you first. How did I arrive at a specific number of servings? There is a caffeine calculator at Energy Fiend, where you input your weight and choose your beverage, and it will tell you the amount required to kill yourself. The comments that accompany the calculator are amusing too.
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i almost died from a caffeine overdose on friday december 19th 2008.
i couldnt breathe, i was all shaky, my chest was tight, i just didnt feel the way i felt before. i drank my energy drink WAY TOO fast.. but part of me didnt want 2 give it 2 my friend.. i wanted 2 drink it… but yea.
seriously?????????????????????? 1 energy drink cant kill u even if u gulp it in 1!!! i have a heart condition and i still manage to down a couple of red bulls and feel no difference. more likely you an allergic reaction to another ingredient in the drink
you must be retarded because i drink 10 cans of monster quicker in a day than most people would have a pot of coffee you are just a lightwieght
I don’t think you almost died…although I would cut out caffeine completely after that response. The same thing happens to me. Even with just one small cup my pulse goes into the 90′s and my blood pressure skyrockets to around 170. If this is how you felt then your body’s probably reacting badly to the caffeine and you need to stop drinking it.
i used to drink 5 cups of coffe a day and i felt so horrible.
I have diabeties and i can’t have caffeine or it will kill me…..but i drink coffee so hahahahaha! teehee! ^3^
I almost collapse yesterday after i pour the whole thing from the coffee sachet…. Right after i drank my coffee, i start to sweat, and started to feel very very dizzy that i also could not breath properly… Im only 19 and it so early for me to die from caffeine overdose….luckily i used the electric fan as a tool of getting more oxygen ^_^
i drink a pot a day.. black… and full of sugar… and cream…
MMMMMM
on april 21st 2007 i woke up and started a pot of coffie i had a headache and i took to asprin well next thing i know im waking up 3 days later at the hospital with both my legs and my right arm gone i asked the doctor what happened to me he said they found me like that in front of a starbucks with 4 cups of coffie in front of me so as it seemed my coffie habbit was so bad i sold 2 legs one arm and a hand i also threw in a pair of rockport boots,a pair socks and a bad ass ring that i got from my last NA meeting.so i would say that coffie is a bad habbit cause now its hard as hell to get my self to starbucks everyday if i had legs i would kick myself in the ass. true story
Sounds like alot of you are experiencing caffeine induced anxiety, not an overdose.
I love it I drink 12 cups a day I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have it I am hooked yeah I get shaky chest feels like crap but that first cup is so worth it next thing you know the pot is gone anxiety sucks too
wow i never new i could die from coffee. i drink like 1-3 cups a day full of 2 or 3 sugars in table spoons. i gotta stop drinkin but its just so good and addicting. =O
once i drank 23 cans of redbull in 7 hours and i was like WHAT THE **** is wrong with my body O_o
i just drank 4 huge cups of coffee and had two this morning.
i needed to stay up really late for homework. i did a whole assinment in 6 hours. from 9.30 pm to 3.30am.
im now twitching and got a head spin. before i started to see things and i pissed like hundreds of times..
im worried i could die??
AUSTRALIA
Eli, you must be borderline retarded. You’re more likely to die from water intoxication than from ODing on caffeine. You most likely were reacting to the roofy your “friend” slipped into your Monster. Don’t drink the punch, Eli.
If you feel like you have a caffine over dose you should eat something that will soke it up like dry oatmeal..
you know what they say…
“If you can’t thread a sewing machine while it’s running, you haven’t had enough coffee.”
I usually drink 2 or 3 pots of black tea
I usually drink 50 to 100 monsters a day. Makes me shit myself but i feel fine. Sometimes i will also take pure caffeine powder and snort it.
Im actually in the hospital now from a caffiene overdose. I had around 700mg when I was admitted. I took three NoDoz and had a large coffee in about a three hour period. No good!
19 y.o
Male
Weight 130
OMG anyone who thinks they can drink 50 to 100 monsters in one day must be on crack!!!! There is NO way!!!!”"
Once, I drank 4 pots of a mixture of redbull and coffee. After that, I started hearing other people’s thoughts, I could see other people’s imaginations, and I have an erection for a whole day.
Damn, i am on about 20 cups of coffee within this hour, i have to do a huge research paper so i am cranked right now. Can’t see straight and rapid heart beat but i am just typing a 100 words per second so i cant complain.
NIce article, but we should also remember that beside bodyweight, it would also depend on activity done before, heart condition, amongst other things. I remember doing aerobic training for 30 mins, then weights then another 30 mins, after which i went home and had to study, i drank coffee that night and had serious heart palpitations and high blood pressure. In that case it would not take much.