I also like to have a nice drink to enjoy while I’m doing stuff. It’s also kind of necessary to drink the water so that it offsets its diuretic effect (if any, but my sources on that have been inconsistent).
Because I only drink very small amounts, rarely, and I have a tin of coffee I got years ago that I plan to continue using for more years. Caffeine pills would be harder to get the dose I want and it would be harder to obtain them than just making coffee, so there is no point.
I dislike coffee. Something about the scent literally makes me nauseated.
So for years my caffeine source of choice was Mtn Dew. (I don’t like black tea either. Tastes like boiled raisins to me, and yes I have tried the good stuff.)
Unfortunately, after years of this, I have developed The Beetus.
Today, I get my caffeine from caffeinated chewing gum. It’s faster, less glycemic impact, and makes my breath nice. (Especially vs coffee breath.)
I do both. Coffee ritual because it’s nice time spent. But caffeine pills for the actual alertness.
I’ve asked my partner the same question a few times. They will drink 3-4 espresso over the course of an hour in the morning, so they could surely take a 200 mg pill and just have 1 cuppa. They just don’t want to. And also will not try, so they will never know if they like it.
When you titrate something, you’re controlling how much of something you add to get the desired effect. A sip of coffee is a very small amount of caffeine, you’ll slowly add caffeine to your system throughout the cup. A single caffeine pill is like drinking an entire cup in one swig.
Yes! I tried caffeine pills once. Tiny and had me wired like mad, immediately. It was not a pleasant experience. I drink a lot of coffee and probably have some tolerance for caffeine, too. Could I split the pills into halves or quarters? No.
There is a caffeine gum Ive been meaning to try called POWER gum. Havent tried it though.
Wondering:
How much of the stimulant effect of caffeine could be down to placebo? And what’s the better placebo? A tiny pill or a bitter tasting elixir with a lengthy preparation ritual?
Maybe some placebo for some people? But there have been times where I couldn’t figure out why I was so energetic, only to remember that I had an extra cup of coffee or drank it later than normal.
I think most regular coffee drinkers know the simulant effect is very real. And I also think that, because of the sheer number of coffee drinkers over the last several hundred years, any significant placebo would have been rooted out by now.
I once took a huge number of No-Doz trying to get the same effect as adderall.
At about the two and a half hour mark I was driving through downtown Chicago toward my home, just openly puking on myself. I’d puked so many times I had finally stopped trying to pull over and open the door. I just needed to get home.
Home meant I could run a hot bath and huddle in it, rocking back and forth. I figured I’d be okay.
Then my fingers started to tingle and go numb. That scared me, so I called 911. Managed to get my boxers back on before the EMTs arrived and hauled me out into an ambulance.
At the hospital, they gave me a gown and a big cup of charcoal smoothie to drink. They wouldn’t release me until I’d had a psych eval. The shrink told me it looked like a suicide attempt. I told her no I was just trying to get high.
I remember saying “You know that feeling when you just have to get high on something?” She looked at me like I had two heads.
For the walk of shame/relief home, they found me a pair of blue scrubs that were comically small. Like they barely covered half my butt.
Discharged me and I walked home through the warm summer night, swerving like a drunk man, pausing every block do so to puke a stream of black sludge into the bushes.
It was fucking ridiculous and it turned me off of caffeine pills.
You poor bastard. Didn’t they check your heart rate and give you something to reduce it? I imagine with the amount of caffeine you’d absorbed you’d be tachycardic.
I personally find that coffee delivers caffeine in a way superior to pills or Red Bulls or whatever. Coffee gives you a better buzz. Red Bulls and pills are like concentrates to flower. The nuances are lost. quit scratching, my fucking chair Oliver. Edit : on the phone, so I use speech to text and my cat is a dick
Yeah. He’s a cat. I’m not sure how he would feel if I said “my” cat but I’m the one he has charged with caring for all of his needs, including but not limited to, adding food to his bowl every morning even if it’s still full. I have to at the very least pretend to add food. Also, he doesn’t like to be petted or touched in general, so I’m not even sure what I’m getting out of this relationship.
I have a pocket full of pistachios that would like to have a word with you. And if you listen closely you may smell the candied pecans wailing in the distance.
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