Mr. Cheeseburger I’d never been too thrilled about energy drinks but this one time I decided to have one since I didn’t get my morning coffee on the three-hour drive home from school.
I chugged a
Red Bull right before getting in the car but one hour into the drive, my body just crashed. All of a sudden I was tired and couldn’t stay awake. A few seconds later, I hit the side of a truck but woke up quick enough to recover.
I pulled over and drank two bottles of water to dilute the effects from the energy drink. I couldn’t believe what happened. My body was so tired I actually fell asleep behind the wheel.
I shouldn’t have had stupid can of
Red Bull. I could have died. The thought kept lingering in my brain,
I could have died.
This never happened in the last three years I drove to and from school. I always stayed awake and alert.
I made my way home (thank God) and swore from that day on, I would never have another energy drink again. I got lucky that day, next time I won’t and might end up in a ditch on the side of the road.
I haven’t touched an energy drink since, and I don’t ever plan on having one. I probably should have done my research before drinking the Red Bull but it was a last minute decision so I didn’t know my body would crash the way it did.
Do you drink Red Bull or any other kind of energy drink? Does it affect your body in any way? Why did my body just crash from having one drink?
Comments (77)
i never get too tired from energy drinks the one time that i got really bad was when i drank three 5 hour energies and i felt like i was dying
I drink the 5 hour energy shot, or the 6 hour one ( they keep coming up with new ones ) and it really does keep me awake. I don't drink energy drinks like redbull, they are loaded with sugar and I just don't like the taste. And if I do drink, it doesn't really help. I don't know why you fell asleep, maybe you were just way way way tired! I don't think it had anything to do with the energy drink. Once your body used up all the redbull and didn't have anything else to draw energy from, your body probably came back to the tired state and that's why you crashed. I'm just throwing ideas out, I really have no idea :P
i've also never met anyone else who feels the effect of energy drinks, but i had a frightening experience.
i was tired, and hanging out with friends - and didnt want to be a bore, so we stopped at a convenience store and i found an energy drink with the most caffiene, forgetting what it had made me feel like before (it had made me in a "feel good" mood for about an hour, and then made me hyperaware, leaving me in a state of feeling as if i was high/tired/about to pass out)
for the next few hours, my mood got worse - i got incredibly anxious and paranoid, blabbering about how bad today would be. then i started lightly hyperventilating at radom intervals for about two hours. after this, i excused myself and walked to the next corner and started having a panic attack. i fell against the wall behind me and slid down the wall, hyperventilating heavily for about a minute. my head, arms, and hands then started tingling - and went entirely numb - i felt actually, paralyzed - breathing became incredibly difficult. luckily, a few friends came around the corner, and after water and repeated offers to call an ambulance, i felt much better. but my hand tingled for the next ten minutes, and during my hyperventilating/numbness combined with my anxiety, i actually thought i was going to go into paralysis and die.
id had many energy drinks before - but i'll never touch an energy drink again, it was possibly the scariest experience of my life.
only time i like redbull... in my vodka or jager.
I usually don't drink energy drinks because my body is super sensitive to caffeine and it totally upsets my anxiety, but when I've had them, they've never made me crash like that. Infact, they've never made me crash period, they usually leave me jittery for days at a time. One time, before I was fully aware of how they affected me, I drank 4 cans of monster in a single night and was honstly considering going to the hospital... I was jittery and crying and felt like I was going to die. I was honestly texting a few friends saying to make sure i texted them every 30 minutes or so or else to call for help.
my neighbor thinks her brother was killed by his wife by giving him red bull (he had a heart condition)
I love energy drinks! Haha. But I always stay away from Red Bull ..
I'm 56 and drink a Red Bull nearly every day and have for about 10 years. You're not supposed to gulp them, I don't think.
i drink monster a LOT, and ive never had anything like that happen to me. the most it ever does is make me jittery and make my hands shake a bit. it tastes really yummy though. :]
maybe you didnt drink enough water beforehand, or maybe your body just has a low tolerance for caffeine? i dont know.
I used to drink a sugar free Sobe a few times a week thinking it was helping. It was probably just a placebo effect or something. Anyway, i'm on certain medications that if I take that much caffeine it makes me have panic attacks (although if it's induced by a drug, it's not a panic attack, that's technically the wrong term). I remember drinking one on my way up to school and when I got there I felt so ill and felt like dying. I can't imagine drinking 2 or more of those. Sobes taste good though...
I also was taking asprin for the caffeine for awhile and had to stop that because it makes me even more anxious than I already am. Energy drinks are not good at all.
I know a lot of people that drink them, in much larger quantities than a can of red bull.. I guess it just really didn't agree with your body, for you to crash that fast...
I personally don't drink them because of my ADHD, but you have a really really legit reason. stay away!
I drink Monsters mostly.
When I was in high school, I would drink half a Monster every morning.
Now I just drink them when I can afford them.. I'm a poor college kid now. =]
When I drank them, I just felt more awake and sometimes jittery.
I don't drink them because they make my heart race out of control. I'm 24 years old--the last thing I want or need is a heart attack!
@Elephantgirl66@xanga - Wow...that's scary. Mind if I ask how long before a surgery one should avoid ginseng? I ask because my sweetie is having surgery in three weeks, and I want to know how long beforehand he needs to be steering clear.
As for the general topic at hand, I just plain don't like energy drinks. I think Red Bull tastes like cough syrup. Besides, I get more than jangled enough from two cups of coffee. Makes getting my eye makeup on a real challenge some days, LOL.
i dont drink energy drinks. never have.
i felt jittery after i drank 7 mt. dews, but i dont think i'm ever going to try drinking energy drinks anymore after this.
I used to drink Rock*Star and Diet Rock*Star. Sometimes 2-3 cans a day. I never reacted the way you did, or had the so called crash that other people describe. I have no clue why you reacted that way. The only time I ever got "tired" when drinking an energy drink is when I took my allergy medicine or something else that made me drowsy. Caffiene gets things into your blood stream faster (hence the reason why people feel drunker when they drink redbull and whatever alcoholic beverage).
i find this post very ironic because red bull's motto is "helps improve reaction speed while driving"
I never drink energy drinks. Aside from me thinking they taste horrible, they exhaust me to the point it physically hurts. Even regular coffee does that to me.
Red bull makes me really cranky. Not sure exactly why, because other energy drinks don't. I drink a lot of sugarfree V, monster, and rockstar over my weekends but it's important to remember that these things are bad for you. All of them.
I love SF redbull it tastes so good=) like smarties
anyway i usually have one before i workout...
I've tried 5-hour energy.. i felt sooo out of it
I was driving and almost blew two stop signs! i hurried up and tried to get home it was weird
Eek! That's pretty scary, I only have one when I drink because alcohol makes me sleepy and I don't like being the first one to bed when everyone else is still up.
Caffeine is horrifyingly dangerous considering it's such a common and legal substance. When I was in high school and attempting to stay awake I took caffeine pills, and unknowingly ingested double the dosage (thinking "it's just caffeine, it's like drinking two cups of coffee at once and i do that all the time").
I don't know if the pill form metabolizes weird or differently than if it's in a liquid but let me tell you, I was miserable. I had tunnel vision, heart palpitations, dry mouth, dizziness, etc. All from something I bought at 7-11, probably before I was 18. I've seen people do, er, much stronger, similar substances and not have those side effects.
I have been consuming quite a bit of caffeine from an early age (probably not the best thing for your body), I drink a cup of black coffee and fall asleep within an hour. Generally speaking it takes a large amount of something to affect me, I used to consume energy drinks in HS but after a few months I felt tired all the time so I decided to stop consuming caffeine and eased down over a week down to zero.
Now I drink coffee three times a week at most but it still doesn't do much for me.