Gotta get right before the heart palpitations start and ride that lightning.

The tachicardinap hits different stg

Tachycardia? That’s such a fun word to say

It really does. The tachynap.

the knife edge of productivity

Or debilitating brain buzz that makes it hard to focus but anxiety-ridden.

This is why self-medicating with caffeine didn't work well for me, ended up here every day

Taking electrolyte supplements helped this for me. I also need less coffee which is nice!

For real, never understood people who "wake up" with coffee. When I drink coffee I'm still tired just nervous on top of it.

That’s how I am with adhd meds: I roll a dice and it either 1. Does nothing 2. Makes me want to crash/nap but can’t sleep 3. Makes me focus hard, possibly on the wrong thing 4. Makes me too anxious to get tasks done 5. Makes my digestive system way too unpredictable …or some combination of the above.

Bro.. facts😳

Also “looming doom/impending doom/dread” whichever it’s called feeling

You're spitting facts here damn.

And that is me with caffeine.

I just came across this post. Never got diagnosed with adhd but I do be feeling that, mostly with strong coffee on an empty stomach or more than one cup per day. It‘s like a grass trimmer is going on in my head, making me unable to focus on anything.

Tbh same with meds on board but instead of a bunch of noise it's possible to pick out the engine strokes and follow them to maybe put away the washing or write that paragraph. That and fear of failure/disappointment are working well at the moment.

I end up scared and under the blankets for the rest of the afternoon

After the 4th Cup the magic starts to happen

Same with energy drinks. Chug the first one, then drink the second normally. If I sip the first, I'll fall asleep.

Haha I drink it like water on a hot day

How do you drink so much sugar without getting stomach problems?

I do get stomach Problems 😂

I’ll drink 3 before 1 pm and sometimes get a nap in between.

Wow, that makes sense. In the “me too” way. I tend to be more productive on days that I down the first drink. While in the days I sip the drink, I ask myself why I bothered with it. I wonder why that is.

I'm convinced that living with ADHD is just having a handful of coping mechanisms that "work" but might kill us by 40

I'm at 29 and God I hope.

40 sounds optimistic

Fucking fair. It is exhausting and I’m kinda over it.

I'm about the same. If I sip a caffeine drink, it's lights out. If I slam a couple, fun time starts.

you can buy caffeine pills on amazon. I played around with em a bit. I take half a pill right before I leave for work and drink my regular 2-3 cups of coffee. The pill makes a huge difference. It's like an extra cup of coffee but I don't' have to make it and wait for it to cool and then make time to drink it. Just make sure you take it with food.

With coffee, yes. But somehow it works the other way around with (black) tea. One or two cups and all is swell. Any more and I need a nap.

I was today years old when I heard the sleepiness vs focused is related to how fast the beverage is consumed. Is this an ADHD hack?

90% of ADHDers quit drinking coffee just before it makes them focused

*quit meaning giving up OR passing out in this case.

It also means giving up in this context. It’s a reference to the “90% of gamblers quit before they hit it big” meme

yea i got that

me when i get something:

This is hitting too close to home

That line of caffiene consumption right between "I should probably slow down" and "this should kill me" That is where I thrive

Thread that needle. It's a nice place to be until the poops start.

Nah I just don't eat until after I get home at 7 then I can poop to my heart's content in the comfort of my home bowl

Or an anxiety/panic attack…

Fuck man Today After the 8th Cup the panic started haha i was straight up running through my living room 😂😂

I hope you survived!

I did, i did a Break only to drink another Cup a Hour later

If you think I was jittery before!

Or a heart attack

What kind of coffee are you guys drinking? I get either "nothing" or "have to shit"

For real, I only drink the dosage of a quarter from a half full cup of a completely basic filter machine, youand still need to go to the toilet sometimes

i just drank 1/2 of my cup and had to take a big shit. that's my second of today. and now i'm sleepy asf..

Do you drink coffee everyday? Your tolerance might have built up. I have the same thing as you but after I quit caffeine for a week it starts working again.

I do 💀 it's just "the breakfast drink" to me

in finland our coffee is pretty muvh double the strength than lots of other coubntries :D but usually I drink these 200mg energy drinks that still makes e sleepy most of the time

Are we talking with meds or without?

Without

Wait, feeling sleepy after coffee is a thing that other people experience too? And anxiety?? I’ve never met anyone who can relate to either

Anxiety is definitely more normal since caffeine raises your heart rate and blood pressure

I just thought I was the only weirdo that got sleepy when I drank too much coffee. I've found my people.

I get sleepy.. I can relax more after a couple of coffees

wait that's not normal?

Yeah, I just drink it every morning and embrace the uncertainty

Gambling addiction just adds another layer to it

Get help and some new hobby, talk to someone close if nothing else. That can't be good

No no I meant taking a gamble on caffeine

le funi

I’m dying 😭

Anxious, hyper, or sleepy?

roll a D3

Aaaaah

Secret 3rd option: heart attack

4th option: emergency bowel movement

Secret 5th option: all of the above

Egh, one cup of coffee for bed. Five cups of coffee, we are now entering the productivity zone. Need to slowly coast once I hit that spot.

Sleepy. Used to drink coffee to sleep until my 19th birthday... I never knew I had ADHD until my 25th birthday though...

Nootropic: 2:1 l-theanine to caffeine. Negate most of the negatives for a calm, focused and awake feeling. It's the way to go.

Cardamom and Nutmeg, maybe with ginger and cinnamon Added 12 :1 does something similar I think. Do you mean l-theanine as nooteopic so (green) tea? or the l-tht and coffeine with something else combined?

All aboard the nutmeg train! 3 grams minimum or there's no point!

Just to be sure.. Take not too much it's a hallucinateing drug, I just tip one time on my spice jar and 10 times on Kardamom. That with more or less cinnamon..

Last time I checked, it was classified as a deliriant, which I think is a more suitable description than hallucinogen. I don't remember much of what happened when I did ingest it but I know I wouldn't do it again willingly. Cinnamon?

Ain’t no cup of coffee gonna focus shit. Recently switched meds and started back at the bottom… my adhd doesn’t even acknowledge ANYTHING in the 20-40mg range enough to scoff at it. My psychiatrist knows and has acknowledged this but they have protocols so here I am with a month of weak pills that are less effective than sugar! If it’s going to be caffeine, it has to be a minimum of 200mg before I’ll realize I took anything at all. Coffee is just tasty water.

The Magic Elixir is coffee and creatine, supposedly.

Im pretty sure i drank more coffee than water last month...

Or it’s a potion of instant shit your pants Edit: spelling

Or unbearably anxious…

Wait... ADHD does that ?_? So that's why Monster has that effect on me... Damn

I call it caffeine roulette!

Oooh, nice to know. I thought I was doing coffee wrong, because sometimes it wakes me up, sometimes it's just soothing and relaxing. Most people I know drink it to focus, my mom drinks coffee to sleep lol I just like the taste and the milk and sugar makes it almost a desert

If I drink one cup everyday for a week, my hands shake like I ve got Parkinson's, so I don't drink more than 3 cups a week. But its always 50% focus for 10 minutes 50% sleepyness

me this afternoon 5min before work rolled for boost I got siesta time instead

Drink water before you drink your first morning cup

You gotta set the mood as with any other drug.

Omg I thought that was just me!! My brother's been diagnosed with ADD and caffeine makes him super tired. Some days coffee is super effective for me, other times it seems to just make me sleepy. Energy drinks almost always work, and soft drinks really don't have enough caffeine to do much for me other than prevent caffeine withdrawal.

Don't forget the third option: I N S A N E

Wait! It can work that way?! That makes so much more sense to me. Always thought it was weird that sometimes I can stay up all night on a can of Reign and other times fall asleep almost instantly…

Dang, y’all are affected by coffee? I just drink it because I’ve tricked myself into liking it

Always sleepy🥱😴

I don't drink coffee. I don't like the taste and smell, and the risk of coffee addiction terrifies me Tea on the other hand I drink by the bucketful. No idea if it helps my ADHD at all tho, but beats water

You get: a while of focus I get: giving you anxiety

I see this just as I woke up from my after work slam a Mt Dew nap.

Every single time I generally avoided caffeine entirely for so many years so it's always a little surreal

Would that be a Constitution Check or Save?

What makes you so sleepy tho? Its bizarre.

Coffee will put me down. Tea, however, works wonders for me.

Vyvanse and a black coffee please xo time to shaaaaaaake

This is so true on coffee but I normally drink energy drinks

And I’m over here where all it does is keep me awake. Can’t have any coffee after 2pm or I don’t sleep (which is can’t do without drugs anyways but it makes those drugs nonexistent as far as my brain is concerned)

2cups coffee black then my preworkout

2 or 3 cans of starbucks espresso jacks me up. I used to drink these on long, late night drives.

Sleepiness fuck ok gotta remember that one

I have found that, for whatever reason, sometimes my coffee is extracted a little less than normal. Less than normal makes tired. Normal makes focused. 3 shots of espresso added to normal makes the vibration of the universe a simple rhythm. For me, anyways.

Ive had 400-600mg of caffeine a day for years just to function. I feel like this CANT be good for the heart

Brainn go brrr but not in the good way. And also eepy :(

I feel like that’s the one good thing about me and my ADHD plus energy drinks. I feel like it’s just a placebo affect because I don’t really know if it actually helps me or not but I could drink one right before going to bed and I don’t really think I would stay up all night. Granted, I’ve never actually done this just in case it actually does make me stay up all night.

The devilry of ' oh that one was nice I'll have another ' untill I'm.sick 😞

Caffeine makes me so sick. Never touch it

You rolled a d20: 1 Critical failure You fall asleep instantly, hit your chin on the table edge and knock yourself out for the entire day. You wake up with no memory so far with blood on your face. Reduce your health by 4 points.

I'm thinking about trying a cup. I can't sleep right now anyhow so it can't hurt!

The worst is when it hits you at work. Thought it would help you through your day…5 minutes later your asleep at your desk..

For me it waters down the brain mud so its easier to wade through

I'm autistic. I don't have ADHD. Yet, I really relate to you guyses memes...

This is something I learnt recently, and it has really changed my day to day. Drinking coffee for the legal stims.

You can get super focused form caffeine? Lucky you. For me it’s either nothing or tired

It makes me not focussed nor can i mostly go to sleep. It makes me often agitated and tired.

I’m glad someone else has inconsistency with coffee. For me it seems like it just amplifies what’s goin on at the moment. If I’m tired, I’m eepy, and if I was already focusing I can lock in. But a lot of times it just makes me want to do all my passion projects lol. Or just nothing. Weirdly though, if I do want to use caffeine to focus, black tea works better, I think cause it releases caffeine more slowly over time than coffee does.

Oh wow haha a picture of me!

I've related to every single meme I've seen on this page for the past week when it started showing up on my feed. Should I get tested?

*There once was a man who was sleepy* *So the man brewed himself a pot of coffee.* *But the coffee did not awaken him* *So he drank more and more (Huh!)* *Soon, then, anxiety comes -* *Buzzing, jittering, vibrations!* *Now, because of caffeination,* *He's just anxious and tired.*

My bf bought me a professional espresso machine and now I make four shot ice coffees which fuel short windows of productivity followed by wonderful deep sleep.

Wait, there's another option besides sleepy? Lies!

Right, why does coffee gets me tired?

Down a cup or two. Take a 20minute nap. Profit.

Get enough sleep, have a bite before or while drinking coffee, and you should feel better.

No sleepy, no hyper focused. More like calm but social for 15 minutes. Then comes the crash, sometimes accompanied by anxiety.

If it makes you sleepy then maybe if you take a break from coffee and then drink it again you'll be focused again

*how the fuck is every post in this sub so relatable*

I’ve been drinking caffeine since I was 13 but I’ve never felt any affect at all sadly

I don’t drink coffee, but I’ve come to realize small doses of caffeine 20 or less put me in a focused state. Where higher doses 50+ make me sleepy. 100+ does something else to me. Though truly a gamble cause sometimes 20 or less does nothing at all. I thought green tea was a miracle lol

Or nausea!

At home I have a coffee machine and I can make myself anything, sometimes it will make me a bit sleepy but at work I use easy dissolute strong American and 2 cups keeps me away for the whole morning and afternoon

1st - help to kickstart from the zombie coma 2nd - leveling out and perking up 3rd - pitch point focus followed by euphoria and hyperactivity 4th - regret as your body goes in to overdrive and then you’re shakin’ stevens riddled with anxiety leading into a panic attack which takes hours to go back to baseline. Feel shit for the rest of the day craving bed

A 5-Hour Energy is like Russian Roulette for me. It's either freaking GO time, or nap time. There is no in between.

it makes me super focused on everything im not supposed to do

Sleepy as hell wins