Coffee and Caffeine FAQ

I'm 19 years old and I would consider myself in good health. I work out, run, and play a lot of sports. So yesterday at work I did about 5 hours of fairly heavy labor in about 85 degrees heat. Afterwords, I was SO thirsty and tired that on my way home I stopped at the gas station and bought a 24 oz Monster. I drank the whole thing in like 2 seconds, and then went home and drank about 10 glasses of ice tea throughout the rest of the night - I didn't even know that Ice tea had caffine in it. Anyways, at about 1 a.m I woke up and had some crazy panic attack thing. I literally was running around our basement freaking out and my heart was going nuts. After it slowed down I felt really dizzy, nausious, and cold. and my hands were shaking like crazy. Just so you know, that was about 5 hours ago; its currently 6a.m and i havn't slept yet not to mention that I woke up early yesterday for my summer class so I am on about 23 1/2 hours of no sleep right now and im 100% awake. about an hour ago i woke up my mom thinking i was dying or something and shes really smart and figured out that i probably had a caffine high. so im typing this to you while currently on a caffine high and it really sucks so i suggest you never drink energy drinks again - my heart is still racing and I cant sleep and I also have a shortness of breath. But anyways, I'm thinking im going be OK but learn from my experience that caffine is not your friend and caffine overdose is horrible. :(