Hi,

being the "knowitall" that i am i just have to respond to your thread! hahaha

i am a really big coffee drinker meaning i just love the stuff and choose to drink it daily.

i have Bipolar Disorder and have been told some with that cant drink coffee without ill effects so i have always watched for that in particular. i average 2 - 4 cups a daily, mostly, and i am told that is the norm amount for being considered acceptable.

so if that is true then 5 cups or more would be considered a too high amount. i do know that symptoms of too much coffee for many would be: irritability, edgy, lack of concentration, poor memorary, overly-emotional, careless, running constantly to he toidy (its a diuretic) and i have heard of the symptom of even being anxious, so high anxiety. those are all i can recall just top of my head, but, i have read some about this so this is not just my opinion.

also, by the way, i dont have those awful symptoms myself with my amount of coffee drank each day. also if drank after say 7 pm at night coffee definitely can keep some people awake at night or if they do fall asleep will often wake up thru the night and be very restless. now this is one symptom that if drinking coffee caused me i would easily be able to put the coffee away for that reason alone. The others, tho, i might likely tolerate a bit of that cause i just love coffee that much! go figure?

i hope that helps and i will be watching this thread myself. very interesting!

Denise