Side effects to "5 hour energy" drink shots? are they unhealthy?!
Anyways i think your suppost to mix them in a drink but i straight chugged it and almost gaged from the taste after i swallowed it. It took me like 50 minutes to get that horrible taste, i tried everything eating food, chewing gum and drinking but the taste stawed in my mouth for like 40 minutes after and i felt sick every time i thought about the taste.
I think the taste bothered me so much because it is so much caffine and i dont drink caffine often(i dont drink coffee, and only drink sodas about once a month) so maybe my taste buds went into shock.
Anyways im shy so after the taste and sickness wore off I was feeling great all day and I felt probally the happiest i have been all school year, because all my subtle tendencys wore off and i acted more outgoing and funny like i do around friends.
Answers: Ok i was at lunch today and My friend way trying to get someone to drink a 5 hour energy caffine shot... So i opened it and smelled it and said i would give it a shot...
Anyways i think your suppost to mix them in a drink but i straight chugged it and almost gaged from the taste after i swallowed it. It took me like 50 minutes to get that horrible taste, i tried everything eating food, chewing gum and drinking but the taste stawed in my mouth for like 40 minutes after and i felt sick every time i thought about the taste.
I think the taste bothered me so much because it is so much caffine and i dont drink caffine often(i dont drink coffee, and only drink sodas about once a month) so maybe my taste buds went into shock.
Anyways im shy so after the taste and sickness wore off I was feeling great all day and I felt probally the happiest i have been all school year, because all my subtle tendencys wore off and i acted more outgoing and funny like i do around friends.
I may have to say you will run in to a couple of problems.
1. you are overstimulated and on a "high" you will eventually crash in some way and at some time.
2. too much caffine can make you iritable.
3. You will be come dependent on such strong ammounts of it. that you will then become immune so it will be one a day then 2 a day and hey maybe 3.
your a young kid if it was at lunch and someone dared you. you shouldn't need so much caffeine. have a red bull not 10 if that. drink some coffee 1 not 10
It can also raise your blood pressure to a dangerous level. so be careful.
I have been drinking Monster (an energy drink) for several years, haven't had any problems with it. (I even ran across a study which suggested that the taurine helped to detoxify the liver after drinking alcohol... rock!)
Don't know about the "5 hour energy" stuff - I'd recommend that you try a few different things before settling on any one thing. Too much of anything can have negative effects on your body, so observe any warnings you see on the packaging.
The LD50 (dosage at which half of the experiment subjects die) for caffeine is very high - something like 30 cups of coffee or a few grams of pure caffeine for an average-sized adult - so you most likely do not need to worry about a caffeine overdose if you are observing the warnings and you do not have any chronic medical conditions.
In short, enjoy yourself and enjoy your youth - if you're not sure about something, try running a few web searches on the ingredients.
I don't see anything horrible in the ingredient list. It may have been the Niacin[vitamin B3] that gave you the sick feeling for awhile--pretty common. The label states that there is only about a cup of coffee's worth of caffiene, so that is no big deal.
The only drawbacks I see are that caffiene is habit-forming and coming off it is hard because you get bad headaches for awhile. Also, it is artificially sweetened with 'sucralose' which is just as bad as aspartame[Nutrasweet]. Though they are both made from sugar they are chemicals that our bodies are better off without. Just my opinion there though.
It seems like a healthy pick-me-up for occasional use.
Good Luck!
I am that way also, but instead of a 5hr energy shot, I prefer 5 whiskey shots (hold for laugher). You are going to get a huge buzz if your system never gets any caffine and then gets an overload of it, unfortanly with any drug, your body will build up a tolerance to it and it will not have the same effect as it once did. So maybe just save up those energy shots for special occasions. And as far as being unhealthy, it takes a LARGE amount of caffine to hurt your body, you should be fine, maybe a little dehydrated from the caffine, just have a glass of water and maybe some scope to fix the taste problem....you'll be golden.