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Coca Cola Overdose

like other have said something else was the cause of all this. You end up putting something else in your system that caused it. Unknowly yes but it was not the cokes.

3 cokes does not have that much caffee in it.

The only thing I can come up with is you blood suger levels went all crazy with the 3 cokes in a short time. That is a lot of suger and some bodies dont adjust as well as others. A huge suger spike like that can get me feeling kind of sick if I not doing to well. I have a mild case of hypoglocima (I dont produce enough glucose). so when I dont eat I start shaking and wierd things start happening to me. I drinking coke for a quick suger fix and the spike up and then right back down really messes me up.

That or when I am really stress out or running on lack of sleep I have to be careful on how much simple carbohydrates I take in (basicly suger that is used in cokes or sweets) because our body can use them really quickly and easily and they dont provide that much reall fuel for it. Cause my suger levels to spike high and then drop down really fast and since I alreayd have trouble when my blood suger gets low it makes it worse. Plus I am tired so I not doing to well to begin with.


Sum everything up. It was not the caffee that did that to you. A coffee from starbucks as a lot more in it that the 3 cokes had in it. It was either some other substance or something dealing with you blood suger jumping around so quickly.
 
To stop all the joking about drugs for a second, it was probably a combination of tiredness, large amounts of sugar, and a bit of caffine. I to suffer from very mild hypoglocima and have occationally had slight hallucinations, like once, driving along the motorway at night, all the brakelights of the cars infront of be started to change in colour rapidly, and some appeared to take off, simply becaused I had not had enough to eat and was incredibly tired. Don't worry about it.
 
If someone's never had caffeine before and they generally don't eat much sugary stuff, is young and has a small frame then I guess 3 cans of full fat coke could send you a bit crazy although its probably more the sugar than the caffeine.

Personally I sometimes a couple of 2 litre bottles of diet coke a day coupled with lots of tea. I've never had any hallucinations. :(
 
Hypoglycaemia or hypoglycemia, can cause hallucinations, but very unlikely to occur to a sufficient extent to cause this unless you're on some hypoglycaemic agent: insulin, sulphonylurea, thiazolidinedione (even less likely), or you have an insulinoma. So unless your a diabetic, I would hope that someone just dropped you acid or added special 'shrooms to your burger.
 
emw said:
Not necessarily - I'm 37 and very sensitive to caffeine. If I drink anything with caffeine, I immediately start to get the shakes.

I've never had hallucinations that I'm aware of, but I can see where having 3 cokes, especially if they were the 20 ouncers or something, could cause issues.
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Fair enough I guess, just sounds very hard to believe.
 
emw said:
Not necessarily - I'm 37 and very sensitive to caffeine. If I drink anything with caffeine, I immediately start to get the shakes.

I've never had hallucinations that I'm aware of, but I can see where having 3 cokes, especially if they were the 20 ouncers or something, could cause issues.
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The issues I would image, besides the shaking, would be running to the bathroom and doing your Kellogg duty. Maybe the OP didn't want to share the more intimate/embarassing details of his/her evening, but if you were to take enough caffeine to hallucinate, I'd imagine your GI tract wouldn't be all to happy with you.
 
applemacdude said:
hes not talking about the type of coke u drink =o
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REALLY?! <amazed expression>

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Its the sugar (or that weird sugar-like chemical) that they put in coke. I gave up drinking coke a few years ago as i would get through far too much of it. Once in a while I will have a bottle of coke, and I can seriously feel it entering into my bloodstream shortly after drinking it. Its a nice tingly feeling, not all that dis-similar to taking ecstasy. If you drink soft drinks all the time your body is conditioned to them, but if you drink a large amount in a short time when you aren't used to it then it can have some weird effects. This is exactly why small kids act up after drinking cola.

About those hallucinations though, seriously, that sounds exactly like someone put a bit of acid in one of your drinks. Or you are hyper sensitive to sugar/caffiene. Spiking drinks is not cool, but it could have been worse, and hey, it sounds like you had fun :)
 
I agree with this. I am extremely sensitive to caffeine and my doctor has continually recomended me to stay away from it. Recently I had a coupld of cokes at my in laws house. I started to feel a pain in my stomach and ran to the bathroom. While I was sitting on the toilet the lights started flickering and the pilsberry dough boy appeared in the mirror and told me I needed cookies. Next thing I remember I woke up naked on my parent's front lawn.
So I agree that hallucinations may occur from caffeine.
 
Flaco123 said:
I agree with this. I am extremely sensitive to caffeine and my doctor has continually recomended me to stay away from it. Recently I had a coupld of cokes at my in laws house. I started to feel a pain in my stomach and ran to the bathroom. While I was sitting on the toilet the lights started flickering and the pilsberry dough boy appeared in the mirror and told me I needed cookies. Next thing I remember I woke up naked on my parent's front lawn.
So I agree that hallucinations may occur from caffeine.
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Nice thread resurrection there. You were not on Coca Cola btw.
 
EricNau said:
3 cokes wouldn't even phase me. Maybe you were drinking more than just Coke. ;)
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Ahahahahaha, +1.

Ever heard of liquid PCP, OP?

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_PCP.shtml

I like reading the negative experiences. Some stuff from Wikipedia

"The American rapper Big Lurch murdered an acquaintance and ate her lungs while on PCP.[17] In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a similarly gruesome murder is described. In April 2009, a man in Bakersfield bit out his 4-year-old son's eye, and severely damaged the other, before attempting to chop off his own legs with an axe while under the influence of PCP.[18]"
 
Wow, thread revival.

I'm a bit sensitive to caffeine too, 3 cokes is the max I'd have in a day. But even after that many and given my sensitivity the worst it gets is palpitations, sweating, just panicky sugary stuff.
 
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