Coffee Side Effects?
By msmonkeyfeet
@msmonkeyfeet (789)
United States
February 25, 2007 2:13pm CST
I was wondering if drinking coffee makes anyone else lightheaded? It seems every time I have a cup of coffee I always feel slightly lightheaded/dizzy afterwards. And for some reason it seems to mostly only be regular hot coffee and not iced-coffee. Any thoughts on this?
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@imsilver (1665)
• Canada
25 Feb 07
I'm the opposite. I find that I get some side effects if I don't drink coffee. Then comes the light-headedness and a headache. I'm not even sure it's the caffeine because I can try to drink tea or pop as a replacement but I'll still get the headache.
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@dizzybizzy1 (978)
• United States
25 Feb 07
Have you tried Mountain Dew?
It's probably the closest pop that you can get compared to coffee.
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@dizzybizzy1 (978)
• United States
25 Feb 07
I drink 2 or 3 12 cup pots of coffee a day and I dont experence this, however, I'm sure I have developed some immune to it.
I know when I first started drinking coffee, I could defenatly feel the caffeene in my system. I dont feel that anymore.
Maybe if you want to drink coffee, you should make it less potent by mixing a half cup of brewed coffee with a half cup of hot water. You could also do a half cup of brewed coffee with a half cup of brewed hot chocolate (MMMMMM).
Maybe you just shouldnt drink coffee. It's not really good for you anyway.
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@msmonkeyfeet (789)
• United States
25 Feb 07
Woah! That's a lot of coffee! I use to drink that much years ago when I was a secretary (darn free coffee!) but now I only have a cup or two a week if that so maybe my body just isn't use to that much caffeine, especially since all I drink everyday all days is water and never any soda or anything. The only reason I have coffee is on the weekend when my son gets up REALLY early and I'm dragging.
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@dizzybizzy1 (978)
• United States
26 Feb 07
Yea, it's mostly to keep me going all day and night.
We have 2 little girls and they like to stay up late and get up early, plus I work on websites.
Trying to balance the girls while working just doesnt seem to go to well, so, I usually end up working about 1am - 5 or 6 am then I am back up with the girls around 8 or 9am.
Children can be fun, huh?
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@msmonkeyfeet (789)
• United States
26 Feb 07
Yikes, that's quite the schedule you have there! I only have one 19 month old son (who's sick right now so he's even more of a handful). I'm a stay-at-home mom and though I love it dearly, there are days when he's up every hour at night and doesn't nap during the day that I feel like I need to just hook up an IV of coffee to myself!
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@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
28 Feb 07
Could it not be the coffee but the sweetner you use? What you are experiencing sounds like what I get when I drink anything that has Aspartame in it.
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@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
2 Mar 07
I agree. Must be the caffine in the coffee then. Do you have that problem when you drink anything caffinated? You may just be sensitive to the caffine.
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@msmonkeyfeet (789)
• United States
28 Feb 07
I very much doubt it, I only use regular white sugar and if I was having a reaction to that I'd be having it a lot more because I use the same sugar in a lot of other things.
@msmonkeyfeet (789)
• United States
2 Mar 07
At first I was thinking maybe it was the caffeine in it, but I don't get that reaction when I drink any other caffeinated beverages like soda.
@seamonkey (1976)
• Ireland
12 Mar 07
Doesn't caffeine cause blood vessels to dialate? If that is happening to you maybe your blood flow is being effected, which in turn could cause dizziness?
@Yestheypayme2dothis (7874)
• United States
6 Mar 07
It does that to me, too. It also makes me irritable if they forget to make it decaf. I try not to drink much, but I am a Starbuck's junky.
