Coffee... what does it do to you?

AARRRGH · 12-12-2007 09:39PM #1

It would be fair to say I am continuously fighting my addition to coffee. I love it but it ****s me up.

For years I thought the flicker from computer screens was making me feel ill. I even went to the doctor about it. He thought I was crazy... So after years of worrying was I epileptic or something, I discover it's all the coffee I drink when I'm sitting in front of a PC...!

Another weird one. I've had a pain in my chest (bottom of left rib) for years. I just assumed (hoped) it was a cyst or something. After giving up coffee for a while, I now notice the pain has gone away. It was god damned coffee AGAIN screwing me around for years.

Anyone else experience things like this? It's a lovely liquid but it can't be good for us...

Pigman II · 12-12-2007 09:48PM

Yes, I can honestly say it's ****ed me up more times over the years than booze.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 12-12-2007 09:52PM

nescafe = scum, should have their offices raided and the management thrown in jail for their bastard drug peddling ways.

12-12-2007 09:56PM

drank a whole pot before one of my leaving cert exams and was tweaked for the whole thing.

Jigsaw · 12-12-2007 09:59PM

I've drunk a lot of coffee in the past but I found that through time, if anything I got used to it. It didn't give me that buzz any more. I've even graduated beyond Pro Plus.

ejmaztec · 12-12-2007 10:07PM

I drink gallons of the fu*king stuff every fu*king day and it it does me no fu*king harm whatsoever and I'll do anybody who says it does!:mad:

Lands Leaving · 12-12-2007 10:12PM

It's fine for me, just keeps me awake if I have it late.

Tha Gopher · 12-12-2007 10:18PM

Can honestly say I have never tasted the stuff. Have only drank tea maybe twice in my life as well. Just dont get refreshment from a warm drink. Beer, water, ice cold coke is the job.

Sir Oxman · 12-12-2007 10:25PM

dublindude wrote: »

It would be fair to say I am continuously fighting my addition to coffee. I love it but it ****s me up.

For years I thought the flicker from computer screens was making me feel ill. I even went to the doctor about it. He thought I was crazy... So after years of worrying was I epileptic or something, I discover it's all the coffee I drink when I'm sitting in front of a PC...!

Another weird one. I've had a pain in my chest (bottom of left rib) for years. I just assumed (hoped) it was a cyst or something. After giving up coffee for a while, I now notice the pain has gone away. It was god damned coffee AGAIN screwing me around for years.

Anyone else experience things like this? It's a lovely liquid but it can't be good for us...

Christ! Thank fcúk for that (saves me a trip to the docs)<---seriously...

pretty-in-pink · 12-12-2007 10:27PM

Coffee I hate, and for some reason it makes me sleepy. Now diet coke...have an awful addiction. when I try to cut it out all together I get the shakes, pains, dizzy, irritable, paranoid......

ast · 12-12-2007 10:31PM

I completely broke my addiction to the stuff, apart from the mug of espresso I need to ever morning in order to function.

jb91 · 12-12-2007 10:32PM

dublindude wrote: »

Another weird one. I've had a pain in my chest (bottom of left rib) for years. I just assumed (hoped) it was a cyst or something. After giving up coffee for a while, I now notice the pain has gone away. It was god damned coffee AGAIN screwing me around for years.

Anyone else experience things like this? It's a lovely liquid but it can't be good for us...

I used to drink Red Bull (1-3 cans a day) to wake me up and I often felt a tightness in my chest. Then one night I had a palpitation (heart rate went through the roof) for no reason.

I went to the doctor the next day and she told me to go to the hospital. I had blood tests, an X ray etc and the only explanation they could find was all the caffeine.

leninbenjamin · 12-12-2007 10:34PM

Caffiene supposedly lowers the risk of Parkinson's in men.

ivanthehunter · 12-12-2007 10:40PM

makes me wanna sh1t
gives me heartburn
keeps me awake but no too aware..
read that pregnant folk drop kids too soon on coffee
heard that its the worst thing for drinkin after or with alcohol- f-ups ur liver

Colonel Sanders · 12-12-2007 10:43PM

I hate the stuff, never got the whole obsession with the stuff. Coffee, the smell of coffee, coffee cake and coffee flavour sweets make me sick.

You can't beat an auld cup of tea!

humbert · 12-12-2007 10:44PM

When I was drinking a lot of it I felt brilliant for the first half of the day and then felt absolutely awful for the second half, both tired and depressed. Massively cut down and feel much better all round.

Pherekydes · 12-12-2007 10:47PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

I drink gallons of the fu*king stuff every fu*king day and it it does me no fu*king harm whatsoever and I'll do anybody who says it does!:mad:

Doesn't it make you prone to violent outbursts?

ivanthehunter · 12-12-2007 10:48PM

some mags somewhere claimed that it was a wonder drug and that men that drank it 2x daily had a lower chance of heart failure, cancer, tooth decay..??

AARRRGH · 12-12-2007 10:50PM

humbert wrote: »

When I was drinking a lot of it I felt brilliant for the first half of the day and then felt absolutely awful for the second half, both tired and depressed.

Yeah, me too. After having a cup I feel on top of the world, but later in the day I feel a bit depressed.

humbert · 12-12-2007 10:51PM

ivanthehunter wrote: »

some mags somewhere claimed that it was a wonder drug and that men that drank it 2x daily had a lower chance of heart failure, cancer, tooth decay..??

The label on the coffee jar perchance?

AARRRGH · 12-12-2007 10:54PM

ivanthehunter wrote: »

some mags somewhere claimed that it was a wonder drug and that men that drank it 2x daily had a lower chance of heart failure, cancer, tooth decay..??

Most University research is sponsored by industry. I would imagine the coffee industry sponsors all kinds of "positive benefits of coffee" research.

Pepe LeFrits · 12-12-2007 10:56PM

Gives me the horn, tbh

Mossy Monk · 12-12-2007 11:00PM

The two times I tried coffee I almost got sick.

Pepe LeFrits · 12-12-2007 11:05PM

You're a curious individual, Mossy.

ejmaztec · 12-12-2007 11:45PM

Slow coach wrote: »

Doesn't it make you prone to violent outbursts?

Not until I've finished drinking it, I don't want to break my receptacle.:cool:

Pigman II · 13-12-2007 12:17AM

I had some coffee thanks to this thread. I'm gonna feel pretty ****ed up in the morning , if I even wake up that is.

binhead · 13-12-2007 12:43AM

OP are you talking about real coffee or brown water?

Cos that instant sh*t isn't coffee, it's caffeine tinged bin water.

If you're gonna get junked up on coffee get a pot and brew some real stuff. I have one cup a day and it's just perfect, Lavazza, mmm mmm.

And buy a diddy pot and some diddy cups so you only have an expresso, just the one, starts the day right and won't make your heart explode through your left shoulder.

AARRRGH · 13-12-2007 01:05AM

binhead wrote: »

OP are you talking about real coffee or brown water?

Real coffee

for example, the beautiful stuff Insomnia makes...

WexCan · 13-12-2007 02:16AM

Jigsaw wrote: »

I've even graduated beyond Pro Plus.

Used to live on Pro Plus. Doesn't do a thing for me now.

tman · 13-12-2007 02:22AM

It makes me poop lots...

Think I'm going to give it up now actually. I only really drink it in work, but I get through gallons of the stuff throughout the day... can't be good for me:o

AARRRGH · 13-12-2007 03:31AM

tman wrote: »

It makes me poop lots...

I vaguely remember reading something along the lines of this is because your liver is producing bile to eliminate the caffeine, and then you need to **** the bile out...

It also messes with your adrenal glands as well.

Defo causes some unnatural happenings in your body!

Coffee... what does it do to you?

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