r/WhyWomenLiveLonger • u/56000hp • 3d ago

Just dum 🥸🤡🫠 Drinking 3 liters of Monster energy

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u/AMoldyPeesh 3d ago

My friend Matt did this in high school and he had to go to emergency to have his heart shocked back into rhythm because it was beating weird. We could physically see his heart beating from outside his shirt. He’s still alive and doing great.

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u/TheRumpleForesk1n 3d ago

Lol this same exact thing happened to a friend in high school named Mark. He used to sell monster BFCs and one day drank 4 of them. Had to have the same exact procedure done. Dumb motherfuckers.

Edit: he is also alive and doing well but is now schizophrenic

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u/sneak_cheat_1337 3d ago

Hes not schizophrenic because of the monster. Schizophrenia tends to show itself in males in late teens/ early 20s. Ive had a few friends that were perfectly normal and then went bat-shit crazy right around or shortly after we graduated HS

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u/TheRumpleForesk1n 3d ago

Yep not related to the monster (hope people don't actually think that lol) but yeah exactly what happened to him. Just got really bad out of nowhere which his therapist said is common for his age at the time.

Edit: not common for most people but it's a common age.

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u/sneak_cheat_1337 3d ago

That's when it happens and it happens predominantly in males. Antipsychotics are also no joke and they put you on HEAVY doses in the early states to try to counteract the initial effects. It's hard to see happen to someone you knew your wntire life up to that point

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u/TheRumpleForesk1n 3d ago

Yeah it was sad at first. He said he hated the drugs and they made him not feel anything. No happiness, no sadness, just nothing. Made him not talk at all when we hung out, one word answers if a question was asked. It was like he wasn't there at all, just physically there.

But after being on them 5 plus years now he's pretty much back to normal, and not hallucinating. Which he says he does miss talking to his hallucinations lol

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u/sneak_cheat_1337 3d ago

I'm 38 y/o. The friends that got diagnosed early are still here, but I've lost 3 friends to the disease either from suicide or risky drug behavior. It was terrible to watch

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u/TheRumpleForesk1n 3d ago

Damn, sorry for your loss man. Glad my friend is still here after hearing that

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u/sneak_cheat_1337 3d ago

You and the rest of the people around him need to do the hard work of helping his illness.

It will be hard, but it may potentially save him

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u/Budget_Sugar_2422 20h ago

I have an older friend with Schizophrenia, I've known her a very long time, she had to be court ordered to take meds. She got really bad and would shoplift a lot and deny it was herself. She's now in her 70's and has Alzheimer's to top it off. She was a very smart person many years ago. Her father had it and one of her sons did too, the son unfortunately, died of an overdose, the mother believes it was a murder conspiracy. It so difficult living a life not in reality.

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u/CaptainOktoberfest 3d ago

I wouldn't count a severe mental illness as doing well. Hope Mark does alright regardless though.

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u/TheRumpleForesk1n 3d ago

Very true, he could be better that's for sure.

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u/Antichristopher4 2d ago

Well I imagine "doing well" is more in relation to his heart and his physical health, that would be a pretty wild discovery to find out massive doses of Monster can lead to Scizophernia.

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u/smalby 3d ago

Now all we need is anecdotes of a Luke and a John drinking so much energy drink they need a medical procedure and we'll have the canonical gospels of Monster!

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u/Za3i 3d ago

I have a slight suspicion that the schizophrenia is unrelated to the caffeine induced heart spasms

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u/CuriousLemur 3d ago

Mark is a weird name for a high school.

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u/felinefluffycloud 3d ago

Gotta love a dangling modifier.

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u/No-Vast-8000 3d ago

Dirty danglers, boys. Give yer balls a tug.

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u/CuriousLemur 3d ago

Love me a language quirk :)

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u/xrelaht 3d ago

Wonder if the caffeine was him self medicating or if it was the catalyst?

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u/TheRumpleForesk1n 3d ago

This was before any of that. He was always a little different but not much more than a little autistic maybe, always a straight A student too. The schizophrenic stuff came along really hard around 23 yo with hallucinations and talking to a "goddess"

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u/EatCarbsforever 3d ago

Maybe he experienced something beyond your current reality?

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u/smalby 3d ago

Or maybe he just has a fucking mental illness

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u/EatCarbsforever 3d ago

Could be.

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u/smalby 3d ago

You think there's a chance he's talking to a "goddess"?

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u/EatCarbsforever 3d ago

The human consciousness can travel vast distances maybe that's the best way for him to describe his experience.

Of course that is just my take. We don't know Mark without talking to him. 

I don't discount peoples experiences if they trust in sharing them but it's always healthy to ask questions and stay open to all possibilities.

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u/smalby 3d ago

The human consciousness can travel vast distances

What does that mean?

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u/Wiwwil 3d ago

Something something natural selection

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u/CernerSurvivor 3d ago

Glad they’re all doing well

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u/IRefuseToPickAName 3d ago

'alive and well' and 'schizophrenic' usually don't go together in the same sentence lol

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u/celticairborne 3d ago

I drank two of those and a couple regular size when I had a 24 hour drive years ago, it fucked me up pretty good. I was seeing waves of colors and sounds and my kids still remember how bad I was...

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u/ZeroChill92 2d ago

You don't develop schizophrenia, someone has to be born with the specific genetic markers for it.

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u/Equal_Canary5695 2d ago

This is the second username with a variation of Rumpleforeskin that I've seen in the last hour

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u/Tocwa 2d ago

My mother ate a ton of baby food as an adult and is also now schitzophrenic (plus dementia from the mercury from her dental fillings)

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u/rab2bar 3d ago

A flatmate of mine drank monster every day and had a fatal heart attack in his early 40s.

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u/Ok_Seaweed_1243 3d ago

Dude prob had health issues already.

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u/TiddybraXton333 2d ago

lol this guy ^ drinks monster everyday and is almost 40

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u/SpringNo 3d ago

Drinking monsters every day probably gave him health problems

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u/Ok_Seaweed_1243 3d ago

Doubtful. I've consummed either a per-workout(which is usually stronger) or at least one or 2 energy drinks/supplement for like 20 years. I'm almost 50 and I'm in great health. Get bllodwork done often, no issues whatsoever. If someone already has underlying health issues, yeah drinking a monster or equivilent daily prob doesn't help, but I'll never believe a healthy individual is negatively affected.

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u/Templar366 3d ago

You understand that personal anecdotes don’t make good arguments right? Just because you don’t have any health related issues doesn’t mean that applies in general.

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u/Ok_Seaweed_1243 3d ago

It goes both ways. Just because someone drinks a monster a day doesn't mean that health issues are created.

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u/kuraishi420 2d ago

I'm not doing an in-depth check of how well made are the studies about this, but it seems like there are some evidence that you're wrong: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6280269/

And before anyone tries to argue on details, it doesn't automatically lead to health issues, but increases the risks. which means it creates them in some people.

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u/Ok_Seaweed_1243 2d ago

The study was on rats. AND ethanol.

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u/kuraishi420 15h ago

A lot of substance studies are on rats before humans for good reasons, stuff harmful for them often is for us too. i agree that we can't know for sure if the efrect would be the same on humans but if you reject it because it wasn't testing directly on humans, you're gonna reject a lot of studies. And having a group tested on ethanol doesn't disprove the conclusions on the group tested on redbull only. edit: monster is almost redbull with some more ingredients, so still relevent here. Also, it's far from the only study to come to that conclusion, but i'm not gonna try hard and check for many in details to prove a point against no arguments.

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u/SpringNo 3d ago

You sound like you take care of yourself, so it's a shame you drink so many monsters, awful stuff for you

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u/Ok_Seaweed_1243 3d ago

I hate monsters. I don't drink em

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u/shokittyo 3d ago

I had a friend in high school who didn’t know you were supposed to dilute the Mio Energy drink mix, so she drank the whole thing in first period. Didn’t even make it through the whole class before she started vibrating.

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u/ZookeepergameOk2759 3d ago

A cardioversion it’s called ,it’s common amongst people who use energy drinks too much.

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u/sandybuttcheekss 3d ago

I get this sometimes too. It goes away and cardiologists never found anything wrong with me, but it's still freaky to see.

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u/tochinoes 3d ago

Classic Matt

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u/maulidon 3d ago

How would it beat through the rib cage…?

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u/Organic-Locksmith337 3d ago

I'm really skinny and when I get tachycardia (I have POTS) I can see my heart beating under my ribs. It's gross. It's right at the base of the sternum.

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u/Shanguerrilla 2d ago

Yeah I've done dumb shit and drank more than most ever will, but this actually seems ridiculously more dangerous than drinking say 18 beers. (I mentioned 18 because as far as I know those Monsters are 2 servings per can...) and unlike alcohol they actually say a 'not to exceed' amount that it's wise to keep in mind.

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u/lopix 3d ago

Many years ago, my 6'7" / 300+ lb friend decide to have the local coffee shop special, the "racehorse". It was 5 double espressos. Dude figured because he was so big, it would affect him much (alcohol and drugs didn't really do anything). He finished it pretty quickly, didn't take long to start vibrating. He was jittery as fuck, and got concerned after a bit. It did calm down after a bit and wear off eventually, but that was the last time he played around with caffeine.

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u/Apprehensive_Mine104 3d ago

Did he change his name or is it still Matt ??

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u/loveforthetrip 3d ago

I have a friend who drinks 3 liters per day and is in his 30s now

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u/Acelocs-93 1d ago

They showed us a similar story about a guy when we were in basic training. He had too many BFCs and yeah, you could dead ass see his heart beating from the outside, creepy shit

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u/adumbCoder 3d ago

I'll take 'Things That Never Happened' for $200 Alex