Caffeine and anxiety attacks

LikeAnOcean
LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
edited October 2012 in All Encompassing Trip
Has caffeine ever caused an anxiety attack on you?


I haven't had caffeine in years. I don't drink coffee and I gave up pop ten years ago.

So tonight I was on a date with this girl and she wanted to get coffee. I thought, what the heck.

Being a moderate frequent alcohol drinker, with no alcohol tonight and a cup of coffee, my heart started racing and I started to wig out and then crashed! Nothing crazy, but I had the shakes, couldn't concentrate and an hour or two later felt hung over.

Me and caffeine DO NOT MIX! Am I alone on this?

Here I am trying to be romantic with this girl, only acting like a crack head! :lol:
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Probably not.

    Caffeine is my friend.
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    no, you are not alone at all. at the height of my anxiety issue 6 months ago I had to quit caffeine temporarily and completely. now that I'm medicated, I can drink it again.

    any stimulant can and will cause anxiety to rear its ugly head.
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Paul David wrote:
    no, you are not alone at all. at the height of my anxiety issue 6 months ago I had to quit caffeine temporarily and completely. now that I'm medicated, I can drink it again.

    any stimulant can and will cause anxiety to rear its ugly head.
    I went to see the movie The Fighter tonight, and could barely follow the storyline. That's how bad it was. I am normally a little high strung, but caffeine made me ridiculous!
  • voidofman
    voidofman Posts: 4,009
    Well, I guess you aren't getting her coffee for Christmas? But if you do, are you going to tell her you don't drink it?

    I don't drink coffee, I tried a couple times and just crashed, no anxiety. Plus I have a heart condition, don't need a stimulant like that.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    VoidOfMan wrote:
    Well, I guess you aren't getting her coffee for Christmas? But if you do, are you going to tell her you don't drink it?

    I don't drink coffee, I tried a couple times and just crashed, no anxiety. Plus I have a heart condition, don't need a stimulant like that.
    Ha! I'll get her coffee. I like the taste of it, but I'm just staying the hell away. lol.
  • voidofman
    voidofman Posts: 4,009
    Can always try decaf.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    VoidOfMan wrote:
    Can always try decaf.
    Caffeine should be outlawed above anything else. I think it had more harm on me than any other drug I've tried.

    I'm medicating my caffeine hangover with alcohol now. How sad is that?
  • voidofman
    voidofman Posts: 4,009
    Sounds good to me!

    Like Tommy Chong said on a record (where his character was in court.) "Hey look, your honor man, I don't need no pot man, and I don't need no acid man, cuz I'm hooked on downers man.."
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    I drink coffee on a daily basis and always wonder how much harm am I actually doing. I can go without coffee in the morning, but I often find myself thinking about it when I do...
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  • iluvcats
    iluvcats Posts: 5,153
    my aunt refers to decaf as anti freeze.

    i read that decaf is a stimulant too.

    I believe you had a caffeine rush. I think anyone would who had not had coffee lately. Combined with the fact you don't know what to get her for Christmas and had you met your future mother in law YET? :lol:
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  • PilateOfTheStorm
    PilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    i get anxiety attacks without caffeine
    :lol:

    need at least 2 cups a day otherwise i go crazy
  • 81
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    two things going on. the frequent drinker leads to your nervous system being depressed. than you do a 180 and toss on caffeine which excited the nervous stystem. BAM you are get all crazy. now do it with sugar next time. :lol:
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  • Claireack
    Claireack Posts: 13,561
    I go the decaff route. If I've been out for meal and round it off with a caffeine coffee or two, I get into bed and my heart pounds. Often if I have caffeine, I can't sleep, I get all twitchy, I feel wired and I am generally a little odd.

    Love coffee, still have it now and again as a treat, but generally stick with decaff to protect my sanity :D
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    81 wrote:
    two things going on. the frequent drinker leads to your nervous system being depressed. than you do a 180 and toss on caffeine which excited the nervous stystem. BAM you are get all crazy. now do it with sugar next time. :lol:
    I could not relax for the life of me. Here I am putting my twitching arm around her in the movie theater. lol. I felt like getting up and running a marathon. It was embarassing.. And now today I'm meeting the family on no sleep. God help me. :lol:
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    VoidOfMan wrote:
    Can always try decaf.
    Caffeine should be outlawed above anything else. I think it had more harm on me than any other drug I've tried.

    I'm medicating my caffeine hangover with alcohol now. How sad is that?
    back in the 80's and early to mid 90's
    crank would have physically blasted you apart
    and sent you twirling and twitching full throttle
    into a different atmosphere

    alcohol to medicate a caffeine hangover? never heard of that.
    good luck with your "normally little high strung" self. = this made me laugh and think of something i saw several years ago.

    my brother Ryan's g/fs mother could not drink coffee and she wouldn't due to her high strung nature and coffee making her more insane with her high strung-ness...

    i sat in my car, in her driveway, and watched her jog around her car
    was the funniest thing i had ever saw in my life
    she flat out got out of her car and ran around the car a few times then finally stopped and opened the trunk of the car :crazy:

    im like... wow
    that is one jacked up broad
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    remember this guy from mad tv?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7tC45pV4v0 :lol:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML_ESDacB7o
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  • Green Circle
    Green Circle Posts: 5,192
    Caffine and then shortly after Lorazapam...works for me.

    OR

    Decaf coffee...
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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,342
    I am very much a caffeine addict.

    Things generally don't go well without it. hahaha!
  • Music For Rhinos
    Music For Rhinos Posts: 1,693
    Never thought you'd habit...
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    lol @ MFR

    I never drink it at work cause it does cause anxiety.

    Changed to desk and can't move around, makes me really anxious, not good
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