"It's unpleasantly like being drunk"
I seem to have accidentally overdosed on caffeine. It is quite annoying as I don't believe there is anything I can do but wait for my body to process it. I was brewing a loose-leaf lady grey tea. I must have brewed it too strong or it must have a greater caffeine content then I was expecting (I really wish things would tell you their caffeine content). This is particularly annoying as it was really tasty. Before this, I've only ever overdosed on chai or on coffee. Most teas don't have enough caffeine for me to end up ill. Of course, I don't know how much caffeine is safe, since things don't list their content. I have rules of thumb like less than one measuring cup worth of a standard coffee if I want to stay safe. No more than one chai in an evening, but it can be a large glass. I learn through trial and error.
So, error. Stupid overdose. I feel ill. Sick to my stomach, in a sort of pain that isn't normal pain... it feels wrong. Like a wrongness. It feels like something is wrong and not the way it should be without being truly painful in most ways. And I feel a bit of vertigo.
I forget what caffeine overdoses feel like when I'm not having them, because it's hard to describe. But then when they occur, I recognize them. Fortunately, this is likely to be mild. I'll probably be okay tomorrow. I am, however, switching to decaf for the rest of the night (in fact, to herbal such that there is no caffeine content rather than the very small caffeine content of something where the caffeine was mostly removed).
I have to have caffeine regularly, because it keeps my tolerance up. If I let myself have no caffeine for a long period of time then I run the risk if I ever have caffeine of becoming massively ill from a very small dose of caffeine. This would have been much worse had I not been regularly consuming small levels of caffeine. But I really hate this error. It's the trapped feeling. I am affected and there is nothing I can do to stop it. Now that it's been done, I am stuck with it until the process is finished. hmmm... sounds like a much weaker version of being in labor. Except with no potential benefit at the end.
And mainly I'm upset that the tea was quite tasty the way I made it, and now I know I have to not make it like that again.
Anyhow, this is me, waiting for a mild drug overdose to pass. I figured it was a topic that probably doesn't get written about much.
So, error. Stupid overdose. I feel ill. Sick to my stomach, in a sort of pain that isn't normal pain... it feels wrong. Like a wrongness. It feels like something is wrong and not the way it should be without being truly painful in most ways. And I feel a bit of vertigo.
I forget what caffeine overdoses feel like when I'm not having them, because it's hard to describe. But then when they occur, I recognize them. Fortunately, this is likely to be mild. I'll probably be okay tomorrow. I am, however, switching to decaf for the rest of the night (in fact, to herbal such that there is no caffeine content rather than the very small caffeine content of something where the caffeine was mostly removed).
I have to have caffeine regularly, because it keeps my tolerance up. If I let myself have no caffeine for a long period of time then I run the risk if I ever have caffeine of becoming massively ill from a very small dose of caffeine. This would have been much worse had I not been regularly consuming small levels of caffeine. But I really hate this error. It's the trapped feeling. I am affected and there is nothing I can do to stop it. Now that it's been done, I am stuck with it until the process is finished. hmmm... sounds like a much weaker version of being in labor. Except with no potential benefit at the end.
And mainly I'm upset that the tea was quite tasty the way I made it, and now I know I have to not make it like that again.
Anyhow, this is me, waiting for a mild drug overdose to pass. I figured it was a topic that probably doesn't get written about much.