Red bull . . .
the sweet stuff with loads of caffeine - I've recently tried it for the first time, and it's not too bad. I read with interest the warning on the back though - "2 cans max. daily"

Anyone ODed on it, that is, exceeded the recommended dose by a fair whack and . . . something happened?







... I say this because I'm now on can number three and my head hurts.
( Mrs Legless . . . belongs to, well, you know . . . :), Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:26, 76 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I haven't with Red Bull
But I've drunk 4 cans of Relentless in an afternoon before.

Your head starts spinning, you're so giddy you can't focus on anything, and your heart ends up beating so fast it hurts.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:29, Reply)

I can still focus . . .
my head hurts like a bastard though. Pulse still OK, no palpitations - I'm not sensitive to caffeine, but the sugar load probably isn't such a great thing for anyone.
( Mrs Legless . . . belongs to, well, you know . . . :), Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:31, Reply)

Relentless is fucking awesome
to me it feels like coming up off a pill, and I'm pretty sure I gurn a bit when I've had some. It's a truly euphoric experience. Tastes better than red bull too, by a fucking country mile. £1 a can near work. I'm off for one now!

Red Bull just doesn't work for me, and it gives the vom/shits.
(The Boy Monders I have ginger bits in my beard., Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:42, Reply)

hehe yeah don't have too much.
My friend kate had about 6 or 7 in one day, and while she was extremely hypo for a while, she said coming down from them was absolutely horrible - she was headachey and nauseas queasy.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:30, Reply)

One of my pals used to own a bar
I went in there drunk as a lord and wired to the tits one night, and for amusement purposes he gave me a pint of vodka and Red Bull.

I properly lost about five hours, woke up the next day with ripped knees in my jeans and bits of gravel and small cuts all over knees and hands. I didn't know where the fuck I was. Turns out I turned up at a mate's flat (almost opposite the bar), pretty much barged my way in the front door and went upstairs and got into his bed and fell fast asleep. When he tried to turf me out I nearly chinned him so he left me to it and slept on his sofa.

In short, I wouldn't recommend it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:31, Reply)

I think discouraging the gallon of liquor and kilo of illegals beforehand would be more apt.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:36, Reply)

But I'm always getting caned
and NEVER black out or sustain mystery injuries, normally.

I was actually a bit scared. To this day I have no idea what I was doing. Possibly breakdancing, would explain the cuts and bruises.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:38, Reply)

Same here!
In may, on a session, no chemical assistance. Head wound, broken teeth. WTF? Back on the niff the very next week, no more incidents.
(The Boy Monders I have ginger bits in my beard., Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:48, Reply)

Add vodka if it's too sweet

maybe don't give it your clubfoot friends, they'll be running in circles for hours!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:33, Reply)

Hahaha

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:36, Reply)

Unless both feet are affected
then they're stuffed . . .
( Mrs Legless . . . belongs to, well, you know . . . :), Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:47, Reply)

There's about the same amount of caffeine in a can of Red Bull
as in a cup of strong coffee. So it's not that much really. However, combined with the large amount of sugar it does give you a fair old rush.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:34, Reply)

Never OD'd on Red Bull
Had 5 litres of Tesco own in the 3 days after Modern Warfare 2 came out. It was spread out and not so bad.

In the past I have had far too much caffeine - headaches, stomach pains, racing heart and hot flushes. About 16 cups of coffee in 3 or so hours.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:35, Reply)

Personally I think its bollocks.
There's more caffeine in a strong coffee and I drink a lot more than 2 cups a day.
I regularly buy two 1lr bottles of Kick from Tesco and drink them in a day. and I don't die. There's really not that much in them. In America some of the drinks have more than 4 times the caffeine than a Red Bull.
( Peej, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:35, Reply)

But the sugar and the taurine and the caffeine together?
I don't think it's good.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:38, Reply)

I don't know for sure
but I've heard that the problem isn't the caffeine so much as the other stimulants they put into it.
EDIT: What Roota said
EDIT-upon-EDIT: Apparently this taurine stuff is a component of bile. (Don't think we really need to pour more of that into most b3tans.) "...involved in a number of physiological processes. However, the role of taurine in these processes is not clearly understood and the influence of high taurine doses on these processes is uncertain."^[1]

[1] "Taurine," Wikipedia the source of all knowledge and, since wisdom is power, power. BY THE POWER OF WIKIPEDIA, I HAVE THE POWER!!!!!
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:38, Reply)

There's no proof taurine does anything
and I drink the diet stuff cos I can't stand sugar sweetness.
( Peej, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:42, Reply)

Yes, I probably should have let you reply before crowbarring in my second edit

(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:43, Reply)

Well it mightn't do anything to you, sunshine
But it fucks me up.
I only had one can a few months agao, and I started dancing in my mother's living room, laughed and started filming on my phone when Grandpa fell over (instead of helping him up), and did the WHOLE of 'Stay' by Shakespears Sister with my uncle, all the operatic bits and the violence. I had a big red face and a racing heart, and my Grandpa told me to get out and never take 'that stuff' ever again.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:46, Reply)

Maybe they should market it as a drug
I want a Shakespears Sister Stay experience!
( Peej, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:50, Reply)

I couldn't sing it now if you asked me
But if I'm rotten or on Red Bull, well I could go on Stars in their Fucking Eyes.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:54, Reply)

I love you Roota

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:51, Reply)

My poor family.
Sometimes I think they encourage it though.
Love you more. Missing you already.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:55, Reply)

Let's elope
to black-out land, where we can live happily ever after.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:58, Reply)

No, because my constant effervescence and scouse accent
would eventually get me a punch-in-face from you
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:01, Reply)

Can I come?
After my experience a couple of weeks ago at the Manchester bash, I think I'm qualified as a fully paid up member.
( girlinthehole, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:02, Reply)

Oh my god yes
Then me and you can totally spend the next day in a hotel room shivering and reading the papers with our coats on!!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:03, Reply)

cock-blocker!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:09, Reply)

BGB's got a big rubber one for me
So technically she was being a cock-enabler
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:11, Reply)

I would never block anyone's cock : )

( girlinthehole, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:17, Reply)

The first and last time I drank three cans
I got really paranoid and shaky and turned the tv off so I could hear the 'noises' properly.

The first and last time I drank vodka & Red Bull I lost two hours, tried to get into one locked club and one locked bar, got my cashcard swallowed by the machine for constantly trying to enter the wrong number (I didn't need money as I was going home) and may or may not have peed in my ex's room - it has never been proven one way or another.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:36, Reply)

Well, if you can't remember it,
It can never have happened. That's the reasoning I take after nights out like that anyway!
(Pirate Monkey is not the goddamn Batman, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:42, Reply)

yeah but some of it was on the CCTV of the bar my mate's boyfriend ran
I bashed and shouted for a bit then slid down the door.
The peeing bit is not recorded. And there was a pint glass with a bit of water nearby so it could have been some of the water and not pee.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:47, Reply)

I only ever drink it with vodka or jagermeister
it's good shit though.

vodka, blue curacao and red bull makes a nice cocktail
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:40, Reply)

My brother does Jager and Redbull
Ruins good Jager
( Peej, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:43, Reply)

it's good if you want a longer drink

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:52, Reply)

If I wanted a longer drink it wouldn't be jager and red bull
It would be a nice ale with a jager shot first.
( Peej, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:56, Reply)

this is a good point
what I meant to say is this: it's ok if you are waiting to get in a massive round of pints and shots, and your mate insists you cane a jagerbomb before he'll let you leave the vicinity of the bar
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:58, Reply)

gah
used to drink pitchers of vodka and redbull a few years ago, gave up when i woke up at 6am in a hedge/ditch combo about a mile from my house.

Scared the living shit out of a woman walking her dog!
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:41, Reply)

Bloody hell . . .
I toot off to wash the dishes for a minute, and there's a whole lot of you here!

I will say this - the sugar rush does wonders for housework . . .
( Mrs Legless . . . belongs to, well, you know . . . :), Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:49, Reply)

I don't really like anything like Red bull or drink too much coffee.
Ever since I gave up amphetamines, (a long long time ago), I get flash backs if I get in a similar rush.
( girlinthehole, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:50, Reply)

I'm a bit of a goody two-shoes
if Legless is to be believed - no drugs (never smoked, no pills, nothing herbal/chemical, save for an asthma inhaler), I rarely drink and coffee for me is more of a warm drink than the caffeine.


. . . that does make me sound boring doesn't it?

I must admit though, I've always been curious to try something like that . . . with someone relatively trustworthy about (which wasn't ever going to be the case when I was a teenager - I was the "sensible one" and the designated driver usually)
( Mrs Legless . . . belongs to, well, you know . . . :), Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:52, Reply)

Yeah but Legless sprinkles Meth on your cereal every morning

How and where is the old chap?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:56, Reply)

Fishing at the moment . . .
I just got a text to say he caught a fish - weenie one, but a fish
( Mrs Legless . . . belongs to, well, you know . . . :), Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:57, Reply)

Oh, and getting
sunburnt - his face looks a little rosy at the moment.
( Mrs Legless . . . belongs to, well, you know . . . :), Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:03, Reply)

Not boring..................just lucky enough to never have felt the need to give it a go.
As much fun as I had, there was a lot of shit that went with it.
( girlinthehole, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:57, Reply)

Oh yeah and Red Bull makes you poo a lot

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:52, Reply)

So I guess having a curry for dinner
was a bad move?
( Mrs Legless . . . belongs to, well, you know . . . :), Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:53, Reply)

Just stick a pipe up your arse
and heat the house with your own home-made 'bio-fuel.'
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:55, Reply)

You're gonna have knicks like the map at the beginning of Bonanza

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:56, Reply)

Haha!
I like how you think.
( girlinthehole, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:58, Reply)

"We dream the same dream, we want the same thiiing, ooooh-ooooooh!"

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:00, Reply)

You're on top form today, my dear

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:00, Reply)

Turbo Shandy

Vodka
Champagne
Red Bull

Ceiling
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:55, Reply)

turbo shandy
is half lager, half smirnoff ice isn't it?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:00, Reply)

yep, forgot

This is liquid cocaine...
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:06, Reply)

then floor . . .
then toilet/tiles/wall then bed?
( Mrs Legless . . . belongs to, well, you know . . . :), Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:01, Reply)

My ex drank
7 cans of Red Bull whilst driving from Cambridge to Cornwall... he couldn't get out of the car when we got there and couldn't sleep for 2 days... I wouldn't recommend overdosing! Hehe
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:04, Reply)

Could he hear 'the noises'?
And mornin, btw!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:06, Reply)

Morning!! :D
I don’t know if he could hear ‘the noises’ but 3 hours into the journey I had to turn off the CD player and open all the windows, he though he was burning up and the music we were listening to (The Eagles of Death Metal) was making him go ‘peculiar’ apparently – Fun stuff.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:11, Reply)

I love the word 'peculiar'

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:13, Reply)

Its quite a good
descriptive word! :D

I like the words 'trousers' and 'flan' and 'cushion'
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:14, Reply)

descriptive of you

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:14, Reply)

You can't tell me the word
'trousers' isn't great?

What about wellies or bonanza or cucumber?
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:19, Reply)

'pilchards'

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:20, Reply)

Ooooh good one!
Sabotage is a good word too! :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:24, Reply)

that's my ring tone

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:26, Reply)

bonanza is a great word
trousers is ok. cucumber is one of the worst words ever.

I do like the word peculiar, as in, I feel peculiar.

I use the word suspicious quite a lot these days
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:26, Reply)

Suspicious is a great word
as is sceptical and skeleton
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:30, Reply)

Having read all this I am surprised at peoples reactions to it.
A can of Red Bull has 80mg but a can of Fixx has 500mg
( Peej, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:18, Reply)

Pyschosamatic innit.

( girlinthehole, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:25, Reply)

could be to do with absorption too perhaps
just theorising there
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:27, Reply)

I went on the piss for two days in Newcastle

then drove back to london ingesting nothing but beef jerky and Red Bull, at one point I couldn't feel my face.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:07, Reply)

Hahahaha
Beef Jerky alone will do that to you.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:11, Reply)

in a word, not really
T in the Park in 2004, I was working security - 15 hour shifts, which involved 48 cans of Red Bull split between my 4 man team (and they were free too :)). No real after effects for most of us, one guy was sick, but he did eat from the food stalls as opposed to the better quality staff food stands.
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:38, Reply)

Got a 5 pint yard glass last year
Filled it with relentless and drank it just before a physics lab. I had to get my lab partner to do the experiments because my hands were shaking too badly, and I was constantly running to the toilet.
( Hdjejjwsjdjjf LOOK, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 20:18, Reply)