5 hour energy: good or bad?

<p>I about to go to town on these materials for my exams tomorrow. It's likely I will have to go all night again. Does 5 hour energy improve your focus or does it turn you into a schizophrenic?</p>

<p>I have heard it helps in certain cases, while someone else took it and passed out for 5 hours.</p>

<p>I like it a lot, helps me just stay focused for a little while longer, especially when I start getting tired.</p>

<p>One isn’t very much more caffeine than a cup of coffee, so you should be fine unless you chug like 8.</p>

<p>Drank one of those once.</p>

<p>Never again.</p>

<p>^Please elaborate.</p>

<p>Some guy at my school had to pay a visit to the hospital and get his stomach pumped out after taking 5-hour. I don’t go near the stuff.</p>

<p>I was really doubtful too. 8333% B12 doesn’t look very appealing to me. It also contains unlisted concentrations of a variety of chemicals labeled “energy blend” that I think I might find in the frig of one of my labs. But I have no choice.</p>

<p>I’m doing it only this once (hopefully). and it’s not like I’m a 100 lbs vegan with metabolic complications. We’ll see at around 2:00 or 3:00</p>

<p>The components of 5-hour energy can be dangerous to your body, particularly if you take several in a short period of time (such as within 1 day). This is how some people end up in the hospital over energy drinks.</p>

<p>However, everyone’s body reacts differently with different amounts of these components, so no one can tell you how you will react to one. Just don’t take more than one a day until you know how your body responds, and be sure to eat healthy and not be taking it on an empty stomach.</p>

<p>too bad they don’t have straws so I can take it in slowly… I seriously feel like I’m sipping out of a glass beaker :(</p>

<p>5 hour energy is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever had in my life. I nearly threw up on a friends shoes after guzzling that. </p>

<p>Even still, if it had worked, I would have done it again. Didn’t do a thing.</p>

<p>It’s pretty gross.</p>

<p>But last semester I had a killer 9-12 seminar, and 5 hour energy definitely helped me concentrate.</p>

<p>I was just having one a week.</p>

<p>I actually took one for the first time not too long ago. It gave me headaches and an upset stomach w/o the energy boost.</p>

<p>I didn’t like it. I felt so caffeinated and sketched out…I felt like I looked like a crackhead and I was physically really uncomfortable. Too much caffeine for me I guess, although I don’t drink too much of it regularly.</p>

<p>Don’t use 5-hour but I use Monster Energy all the time, and it’s pretty effective. But the downside is that it has too much sugar in one serving…</p>

<p>Well it definitely helped.</p>

<p>Red Bull, Monster, 5 Hour, never really noticed any difference in concentration.</p>

<p>My literary journalism prof drinks Red Bull religiously. I worry so much about him. On the plus side, class is always a blaaast.</p>

<p>I had a five hour energy before a concert once… Never again… It made me feel like I was goin to throw up 3 hours after I took it. It totally ruined the Katy perry concert for me</p>

<p>Doesn’t work on me. My aunt had me drink that once to wake me up and I was still tired after drinking it.</p>

<p>I found an article [Is</a> 5 Hour Energy Bad For You](<a href=“http://www.losingweight.com/health/is-5-hour-energy-bad-for-you]Is”>http://www.losingweight.com/health/is-5-hour-energy-bad-for-you) that says there’s only 138mg in one bottle of 5 hour energy…knowing this information, and knowing how much this stuff costs, I say it’s bad for your wallet, and not necessarily good for your health. Just drink a cup of coffee or pop a caffeine tablet. This drink is overly hyped!</p>