Coffee and Caffeine FAQ

Well, that's interesting. I was freaking out a little bit today. I used to be a habitual coffee drinker, for a span of a few months a year or two ago I would drink upwards of 15 cups of black coffee a day. I noticed that I wasn't sleeping well, only two or three hours a night, but failed to put 2 and 2 together. Then I for some reason decided not to have any coffee for a couple days, just didn't feel like it, and I crashed and slept almost 48 hours through. Since then I have made sure to practice moderation when it comes to coffee, and generally only have 1 to 5 cups a day, depending. Lately only 1 or 2 small cups. But today I felt like drinking more coffee and drank two large mugs. I got shaky, cold sweat, and nausea. Then I threw up. I am a bit of a hypochondriac so that REALLY freaked me out as I thought it might be symptomatic of a more serious health issue. But after reading this, I hope that it just means I overdid it on the coffee, and that even though it's less by far that what I used to drink, that my tolerance is down and that's the only reason I threw up. At least the nausea is gone now.