caffeine overdose

[USER80709]

I wanted to know if taking too many caffeine pills can lead to death

 

[lkjhgfdsa1]

i wish lmao

 

[DoubleUp8]

No probability of caffeine killing anyone. I would have died years ago if it could. You don't want to even try it.

 

[F@#$]

I don't know how many is too many. Me and a friend of mine split a giant bottle of them one morning before school. They made me super fuckin sick.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

Most likely it won't work.

im planning to take 54000mg Caffeine pills tonight

I know it's not the smartest way to ctb and really painful. My options are limited. So im desperate and not looking for something peaceful. This is the only option i have left. The lethal dose of caffeine is around 150-200mg per kg of your weight. So if im 60kg around 12000mg would be lethal...

sanctioned-suicide.net

 

[Forveleth]

The only people who have died from a caffeine overdose have usually had some sort of preexisting condition like a heart problem where once their heart starts racing, it fails. If drinking a lot of caffeine would kill you, I'm pretty sure half of Millennials and Gen Z wouldn't be here right now.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I would say it *might* have a very small probability of working if someone has extremely serious, underlying health issues such as a serious heart condition, liver failure of some sort, possibly kidney malfunction. But, the amount you'd have to ingest would be prohibitively difficult, if not impossible.

 

[ferrie]

It's highly unlikely to consume enough caffeine to be lethal. A nonfatal overdose starts at around 5 grams, with a lethal dose estimated to be around 10g. Caffeine tolerance is highly individualized though, so there's no agreed upon LD50 of caffeine & no way to say for certain whether any given amount of caffeine will even give you symptoms. The only fatalities I'm personally aware of in healthy adults were a result of pure caffeine powder, which is now much more regulated

 

[lostintheloop]

More likely just make yourself very violently ill. It's really hard to consume vast amount of pills and it'd take a lot to even have chance and is very small chance. Depending on where you live, caffeine powder may be very hard to get. I tried it once, as was considering it as a method, and it is incredibly bitter and not very soluble . I struggled to consume even small amount as test. Would be very difficult to consume the amount needed as would be a lot for a healthy adult, especially if you already have caffeine tolerance. Some students part of a research trial at a UK uni were accidently given 30g and survived . So you can survive huge amounts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-38744307.amp
Not a nice way too go either and could leave you with heart trouble if fails.

 

[drearysunrise]

I doubt there's any case studies on it, but I do wonder if it could be successful with antiemetics to prevent the vomiting. Or maybe in combination with an overdose of something like a stimulant medication? Although even if it was more likely to work that way I can only imagine how bad the anxiety would be.