5 Hour Energy Drink

[TheBilgeRat]

Does anyone have any opinions on this?

It is called "5 hour energy" and is sold in very small 2 ounce bottles.  It sure is expensive.

I've lived off them on occasion (finals week springs to mind).  Better than a RockStar or a Red Bull.  It's mostly B vitamins and caffeine, nothing a good multivit a cuppa joe and a workout in the morning on't give you

[TheBilgeRat]

The reason I ask is because I have been unconscious most of the last 2 weeks.  I tried loading up on caffeine and can still barely keep my eyes open now...

That's no good!  The things I used to do to stay awake on fireguard or late night shift at the PIHA:

1.  Do some pushups.
2.  Drink water.
3.  have a nose hair pulling contest.

[TheBilgeRat]

I am not allowed

I drink a lot of water all the time.  I am sort of a hydrophiliac.

One thing I have found is that when I take a standard multivitamin (Equate Multivitamin, compare to Centrum) 3 times a day every single day then I get energy and can stay awake for up to 12 hours at a time.  But the bottle says take 1 a day.  I am afraid that taking a triple dose over a long period of time would make me overdose on one of the minerals or vitamins.  So I donno what to do. :confused:

Being in Oregon, during the winter months I take a double to triple dose of vitamin D because of the light levels.    The recommended amounts of vitamins are the baseline for prevention of vitamin deficiency related disease.  If you drink tons of water taking a triple multi will most likely make your pee expensive, but i doubt it will make you OD.  I am no doctor, YMMV.

[TheBilgeRat]

You sound just like my sister & brother-in-law in Portland... :lol:

They're forever on at me to take Vitamin D and a whole load of others for the same reasons...

Makes me wonder how the Scottish race has survived all this time with not taking our vitamins, think 30 odd years of living in the US has brainwashed me sister...

Gawd... the Drug store owners round your way must be the richest people in town...

Ever hear the term "Mad as a Scotsman?"

It's easy - back in the day you just went nuts or a little bonkers during winter.  The Swedes and such put evergreens in their houses because they were afraid the sun would never come back.  

[TheBilgeRat]

That means you have to pay a private company without getting care?

/troll mode

I know you are poking fun, Speel, but there IS socialized medecine in the US.

You just have to be either:

A.  In the Military.

or

B.  Old as S*** and about to kack anyways.

Otherwise, there is the best medical system in the WORLD as long as you can afford to buy in (which most can't).  Just do the Republican thing and DON'T GET SICK!!!