VPX Redline Putting People In Hospital
Redline – the stuff of legends.
A guy drinks two 8-ounce cans of Redline RTD (along with a burrito). Minutes later he collapses, shaking violently (via SacBee).
Energy drink enthusiasts know that Redline is a drink that you don’t mess with. The label on the can suggests only drinking a half can at a time.
At first I thought the burrito-eating guy was foolish – surely he would have had to go to a GNC or similar drugstore where the sales staff would have warned him. But no – he got Redline from a 7-11 ! This stuff is an uber-stimulant. It’s a bodybuilders fat loss tool that is combined with training and nutrition (and I’m not talking about a burrito here).
Caffeine in Redline: Do We Have a Winner?
A few months back we predicted that Redline had about 250mg of caffeine in the can. That was an educated guess. As we read further into the Redline story from Sacramento Bee – we discovered that a toxicologist had managed to get VPX (the folks that make Redline) to spill the beans on Redline caffeine. The magic number? 250mg! Not bad guesswork from the EnergyFiendsters.
Another peculiar thing is that this news article actually quotes EnergyFiend — so watch what you say – you might be quoted in a paper somewhere.
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Yep. Just awaiting confirmation.
so thats 250 for the 8 ounce, right?
Last October I drank half a bottle of Redline and the only thing that happened was my hands shook slightly. A few hours later I was disappointed and drank another bottle, the whole thing. And STILL nothing happened. >.> Why is it some people are just completely unaffected by this thing while others pass out all over the place?
Redline RTD formulation is 250mg per bottle (approx). If someone took two caffeine pills and a Red Bull, they’d be over that caffeine content by 30mg. It’s all relative to the person that is taking the Red Line RTD. It’s like all things, your tolerance level to certain drugs determines your reaction. So let’s stop blaming and let’s take more responsibility.
You guys are forgeting about the ephedra they put in there, it’s listed under a different name, but i can’t remember it.
Um…spazysteve…there’s no ephedra in Redline. I just googled all the ingredients, and they are all diferent herbs/chemicals than ephedra. Many of the effects are similar to ephedra, but there is no ephedra in the product.
There is no ephedra. Here is the blend: Caffeine Citrate, Caffeine Anhydrous,
Evoburn™ (Pure Evodiamine), N-acetyl-tyrosine, Yerbe Mate, Green Tea, 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan, CAMP (adenosine cyclic 3′,5′-monophosphate), Vinpocetine, Yohimbine HCL.
We now have confirmation of caffeine. It’s finally in the database.
I picked up Redline RTD at GNC after seeing an article on Energyfiend about it. I had the day off of work and school so I decided I was going to buy a four-pack of the 8oz size… somewhere along the way I ended up staying up all night and day and playing a Wii in a busy Gamestop for 3 hours. I eventually lasted 35 hours awake on this stuff, during which I felt mentally completely fine and only noticed a slight pain in my joints from the lack of sleep I suppose.
My hypothesis on the burrito man: The label warns you not to drink it on an empty stomach, and from what I learned in a past EF article, that herb evodiamine will affect your body really negatively if you drink on an empty stomach. The guy was probably starving (why he grabbed a burrito) but his stomach wasn’t coated with food, so it absorbed all the Redline (already 4 times the recommended dosage for a first-timer).
I have always been careful to eat before I drank this actually.
35 hours awake? Impressive.
Good point about the food. There should be another warning: Don’t drink this on an empty stomach.
I took a couple of the Redline pills and ran a few miles on the treadmill. Afterward I was burning hot and sweating all over the place. It also gave me a nasty stomach ache and a pounding headache. I strongly recommend everybody to stay away from this stuff.
where can i get this shit? i live green bay wisconsin…looking, where to find
You can get it online from Body Building
I still don’t understand how extreme my caffeine tolerance is. I chugged two redlines and downed two rocket shots and had a mild energy rush. The kind you get from doing four hundred mg’s of no-doz, only it was short.
yea i live in madison wisconsin and i have not found this energy drink newhere and so far i have had at least 20 different energy drinks and still cant find this one or the cocaine one
I assume the food has an effect also. I have free Red lines here.. So I drink that often, mainly at work to get through the day after a ruff night. Normally, just keeps me awake, a bit shaky, nothing more.
But last weekend, I had one in my car.. I felt like I just took two speeds! haha Was very joyfull, spoke to everyone, a lot more shaky then normally.. And had the dry/weird mouth feeling you get with speed.
Think it might have to do with the empty stomach theory, otherwise I don’t know why sometimes I can take two cans with almost no effect, and that night I was VERY affected by it 
Redline (in Canada) is usually found at Sports Supplements stores (independents and GNC). I have yet to find any form of Redline in con. stores like 7-11. Sometimes you have to get it ordered in, but most times it’s on the shelves in the back. Also some stores refridgerate it for you.
OK….I am one of the many people who ended up in the hospital….can’t believe my dx was “Overdose. Caffeine.” and dehydration. But mine is a story of PURE stupidity. Long story short….in the morning I took phentermine…around 3pm, I had 1/2 a diet rockstar. Wasn’t feeling any kick, and so at about 4 or 4:30pm I had only 1/4 (2 oz.) bottle of the Redline(I never had used it before)…waited about 20 or 30 min…still felt nothing, and had another 1 -2oz. NOTE- I disregarded the empty stomach warning (since I always take things on an empty stomach with no ill effects). Within 10 minutes I was uncomfortably bouncing off the walls…. By 6pm, I had a really bad migraine and my neck muscles were killing me…so idiot me takes 1 Excedrine migraine (1/2 the normal dose). So it’s about 6:30pm and I have yet to eat, and all of a sudden my mouth starts salivating excessively and I’m beyond nauseaus….I run to the toilet but cannot throw up—yet I keep salivating like my body wants to puke. I try to eat something (a few bites of salad) to coat my stomach…but it’s too late to reverse the effects. I start shaking profusely, sweating and shivering at the same time, having muscle twitches, basically feel like I’m about to die—and the damn salivating will not stop. I am so nauseaus that I can’t even drink a sip of water. I try to sit it out and hope the stuff will all wear off…little did I know that while caffeine seems to only lasts about 4 hours in your body, it actually has a half- life of 12-15hours. As I’m pacing around the house and about to jump out of my skin, my chest starts tightning up painfully. I noticed that my pupils were huge and fixed (they did not react to light). I realized that I might actually die—which I never thought anyone could die from too much caffeine. I call my med helpline from my insurance plan, to see if the nurse thinks I’m in danger and might need to go to the ER. She doesn’t know and has me speak to Poison Control. The funny thing is that while the person was not familiar with Rockstar, as soon as he heard that I had some Redline, he advised that I go to the ER. He said that since Redline has been on the market, 1 15-year-old kid died and hundreds have been admitted to the ER with actual heart complications. And while the hospital can monitor your heart and blood pressure (mine was averaging 157/70 even at 5am the next morning), there is no reversal drug for caffeine overdose…the best they can do is sedate you and monitor you. I entered the ER at around 11pm and made them check me out by 6am—I never took the sedative b/c then I would actually get checked into the hospital and I was already humiliated enough by just doing the stupid shit I did that day. So they gave me an Ativan, I went home and it did nothing. I took some melatonin for sleep (I know that I abused my body so badly already but I just wanted to wake up feeling even a little better).I finally fell asleep at arond 1o or 11am.
And even while I got an IV for fluid loss, medicine for the nausea, and a sedative…..it took me 2 days to get over the crappy feelings.
Well, I thought I’d write a quick blurb, but I guess this ended up a lot longer.
My stupidity has let me learn to believe the labels when they warn you of something…and never to mix so much shit, even if I pace out the amounts of caffeine over the whole day.
I still went out and bought more Redline for another time–so that I could try it with food on my stomach—heehee—-I don’t learn lessons very well. I do know one thing, though…..that was the worst experience/feeling I’ve ever had in my life(I’m 30)….and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy!!!
Are you sure that he did not have previous health hazards or a calcium defiency? its kind of weird for someone to collapse due to the high amount of caffiene.sick we beleive, but actually collapse?
Ive been drinking a can of Redline for about 3 weeks daily. Im not sure if it is even doing anything to me. Ive read the reviews so im staying away from drinking more than one can (plus that is an expensive way to go). But I think alot of it might have to do with a persons diet. If your not ready for the caffine your body will reject it
so i assume this will be going on the database soon?