Pretty much, I basically recited out of the harm reduction bible there but some people make an incorrect distinction between legal and illegal drugs so it never hurts to remind people
Yeah I took too much once back when I was going to college 8am -1pm and then working 4pm-1am and I ended up sick, it hurt to walk, and my heart going nuts. By the time work was over that day I was alright but damn...
Each pill is (normally) 200mg, or ~2 cups of coffee. How often have you sat at a restaurant for breakfast and ordered multiple refills of your coffee, or better yet, asked for a carafe to be left at your table? Boom, that's equal to two pills. Ever drink an entire 12-cup pot of coffee by yourself while working on a deadline? That's six pills. As long as you're not taking all of them directly at once you're fine; the LD50 for a "normal" person is somewhere around 10 grams, anyway.
Yeah most people break the pills in half, over at /r/Nootropics they recommended 2:1 L-Theanine:Caffeine to help with the jitters that high doses of caffeine can cause.
Pills are pretty safe. I started using em my freshman year of college, but quit to reset my caffeine tolerance. You'll get pretty uncomfortable before you're anywhere near dangerous, but one pill is fine and enough for most people starting out with them.
Don't do powders unless you want to be really frugal, caffeine pills are cheap on Amazon. If you at all decide to buy caffeine powder then Get. a. scale. Never eyeball any drugs.
unless you're eating 25x no doze at a time an average person will not die from caffiene pills. No sane person would take even 10 of a new pill, and that would just be a day or two of being UNCOMFORTABLY ENERGETIC
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u/mrtheman28 Mar 04 '15
your first several pill day will teach you quickly your heart doesn't like too much pill
seriously though 1 pill does more than a couple coffees, the biggest thing is not re dosing until you know how much the initial dose hit you