Red Bull = Bad Idea

Last night I had a Red Bull for the first time in about 10 years. I knew it was a bad idea before I drank it, I did it anyway, and I was right.

I had one because I needed to stay up to get school work done. Which I did. I got a good bit done. But then around midnight some of my symptoms started acting up. There was a loud ringing in my ears and I thought I kept hearing someone at the door and my daughters talking in their bedroom. This lasted for a couple hours.

I tried researching caffeine mixed with my meds but there wasn’t anything that said there would be an interaction. Something obviously happened though. I really should avoid it in the future.

Guess what I’m drinking right now...

I know I shouldn’t, but right now Red Bull feels like the only option to get through the next few days of trying to catch up with school work. I’m extremely behind and actually fall asleep while doing school work, probably before 9pm. Last night I was able to stay up much later and get stuff done. I know in the long run I can’t keep doing this, but for now I really need to catch up. And I’m doing anything I think will help. School is such a stress right now, and I believe a lot of that is just because I got behind. If I can catch up I think I’ll feel a lot better.

I am going to skip my meds tonight though so there is hopefully less of a negative reaction.

Speaking of meds, I started the higher dose of the antipsychotic this morning. No extreme side effects. The only thing was I could not stay still, my legs just had to keep moving. I’m not joking, I walked around my desk for 6 hours at work today. But I didn’t feel like I was on a real high and I didn’t have any nausea. So yay!!

I have to get back to the exciting world of algebra and history…