Why I’ll Never Take No Doze Again!
Posted by Dr. Cason on Sunday, July 6th, 2008
It’s late and I’m cranky because I’m still wake. I’m not an evening person. I’ll gladly take an early bedtime so I can then get up and work in the wee hours of darkness before the stirring of little kids and a rising sun.
So why am I up? Deadline. I’m writing a piece for a local magazine here in Guam about the importance of school physicals. Never mind that I haven’t made my appointments for my kids yet.
So I’m sitting here tired and contemplating making coffee. But I’m thinking it probably would backfire just as it did when I was in college and taking premed classes. I had an incredibly do or die test to take and HAD to stay up to study. So off I went to the store and bought some No-Doze- the caffeine pills and took a little too much.
Whoa did it knock me for a loop! Not only did it not allow me to stay up and study, it made me so nauseous and jittery that I abandoned the books and went to bed early! I can’t even remember how did on that test.
So no coffee. And definitely no No Doze. I’ll have to settle for snacking on animal crackers and watching the History channel analyzing Star Wars!- which reminds me, John bought me a mini Yoda when I was in Medical school and it sat in on every exam thereafter. I wonder where he is?
Now back to work-Ugh!
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I took No Doze once, too, and had the same reaction. It was miserable! But coffee doesn’t affect me in the same way and I would not be making it through my evening classes without it.
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No doze was yucky, I felt the same on it. Drinking coffee or cola doesn’t seem to affect me like that.
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Never tried it, but I am a super night owl. I love staying up into the wee hours of the night. Then next morning it a pain in the bum since I have early bird children.
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When I was in college I pulled many an all-nighter, fuelled by pure adrenaline!
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Animal crackers are one of my favorite snacks!
I took a caffeine pill once. It made me feel AWFUL. Never, never, again.
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Kyla- Caffeine sometimes has the same effect but that’s only because John likes it mud thick!
White Hot- I haven’t tried soda in a while but6 didn’t find it affected me that way either.
Awesome Mom- Even though I’m not a night owl I too sometimes love the queit and find myself staying up and watching some weird random show on TV.
Davina- Really? I could never stay up studying without help but in residency and medical school just running around the wards at night kept me wake!
Guin- Never never is right!! And the animal crackers- so happy to see that they are milk and egg free. Woo Hoo! My new favorite snack.
Hi Dr. Cason,
I tried No Doze once and it gave me heart palpitations. That scared me, so I stay clear of it.
I’m a night owl and that’s when I get a lot of my blogging done.
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Hi Barbara!- I always notice when you post- I figured you must be a night owl! I need to go see your post. I have always wondered if one is better.
I prefer when staying awake to make it naturally without taking anything. I tried once to push myself to concentrate for doing something but it failed completely.
I think we should get out brain to rest when it needs.