Posted: 7/24/2009 11:49:22 AM EDT
| Ok...I am on my third pot of coffee, I am feeling weird, heart is beating fast, I am shaking, my body seems to be moving fast, but everything thing around me is going in slow motion. I have to stay up today after being up all night and all day yesterday, so I can turn around and work a night shift on Saturday (ratating shifts suck!). So the question is, what is a lethal dose of caffeine? |
(This information is from wikipedia, which is the only *#!!$*% website with LD-50 info that isn't flagged "Drugs / Alcohol" by our nanny filter here at work.  ) The human LD-50 for caffeine is estimated to be 150 to 200 mg/kg. Divide your bodyweight by 2.2, then multiply the result by 150 to get the lower end of the range, by 200 to get the upper end of the range. According to wikipedia, the average person's LD-50 would be 80 - 100 cups of coffee in a limited time frame. Based on that, you're probably safe ... unless, of course, your coffee pot holds 30+ cups.
BTW, standard disclaimer applies. |
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Ok...I am on my third pot of coffee, I am feeling weird, heart is beating fast, I am shaking, my body seems to be moving fast, but everything thing around me is going in slow motion. I have to stay up today after being up all night and all day yesterday, so I can turn around and work a night shift on Saturday (ratating shifts suck!). So the question is, what is a lethal dose of caffeine? I'd back off for awhile. Drink some water. -Ed |
 After 5 years of nothing but green and black tea, I've started drinking coffeee again on a LIMITED basis.
Black tea has about 1/3 the caffeine of coffee. If I drink two cups of coffee in a day right now, I feel like someone could scrape me off the ceiling with a spatula. I can't even comprehend TWO POTS IN ONE DAY. |
You should feel luky that you just feel weird. I would think that you would feel dead drinking that much,|
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I've had caffine OD before. Once from those No Doz pills on a long drive home late at night. And [at least] another from too many energy drinks in one night. Never a good feeling.  I used to try and get "high" off of caffeine a long time ago. Stole a bunch of Jet-Alert, took handfuls of them at a time. Yeah, not a good feeling. |
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You got a ways to go. I remember reading somewhere that when coffee was first introduced to Europe, it was viewed kind of like we view crack cocaine today. It wasn't illegal, but it was looked down upon. "Secrect societies" sprang up that would meet in cellars, brew shit loads of coffee, and drink until they started hallucinating..... so, are you seeing anything "interesting" yet?
ETA: Can't find a link to info on the early "coffee achievers", but did find several bits of info on caffeine causing visual and auditory hallucinations. For instance, this one: Link According to that article, as little as 3 cups of coffee can increase your chances of hallucinating. So, if you've drunk 3 pots, you might..... wait a minute.... did you hear that?  
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You got a ways to go. I remember reading somewhere that when coffee was first introduced to Europe, it was viewed kind of like we view crack cocaine today. It wasn't illegal, but it was looked down upon. "Secrect societies" sprang up that would meet in cellars, brew shit loads of coffee, and drink until they started hallucinating..... so, are you seeing anything "interesting" yet? Define interesting? I live in the "ghetto", whatever ghetto Omaha has. |
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You got a ways to go. I remember reading somewhere that when coffee was first introduced to Europe, it was viewed kind of like we view crack cocaine today. It wasn't illegal, but it was looked down upon. "Secrect societies" sprang up that would meet in cellars, brew shit loads of coffee, and drink until they started hallucinating..... so, are you seeing anything "interesting" yet? Define interesting? I live in the "ghetto", whatever ghetto Omaha has. Interesting like, suddenly finding yourself on a hilltop, dressed in sun god robes, surrounded by midgets throwing pickles at you.... ETA: See the edit to my first post, OP. |
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You got a ways to go. I remember reading somewhere that when coffee was first introduced to Europe, it was viewed kind of like we view crack cocaine today. It wasn't illegal, but it was looked down upon. "Secrect societies" sprang up that would meet in cellars, brew shit loads of coffee, and drink until they started hallucinating..... so, are you seeing anything "interesting" yet? Define interesting? I live in the "ghetto", whatever ghetto Omaha has. Interesting like, suddenly finding yourself on a hilltop, dressed in sun god robes, surrounded by midgets throwing pickles at you.... ETA: See the edit to my first post, OP. Well, their not midgets...but normal sized people. So I guess that I am ok.
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