Equate – Stay Awake – Compare to Vivarin – Alertness Aid with Caffeine, Maximum Strength, 80 Tablets
Equate - Stay Awake - Compare to Vivarin - Alertness Aid with Caffeine, Maximum Strength, 80 Tablets
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 List Price: $8.62 Sale Price: $5.88 Availability: unspecified 
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Product Description
Helps Restore Alertness - Safe As Coffee. Maximum Strength Easy to Swallow Tablets Each Tablet Contains 200mg Caffeine, equal to about Two Cups of Coffee. Safe and Effective - as reported by a government appointed panel of experts. Take Stay Awake for a safe, fast pick-up anytime you feel drowsy and need to be alert. The caffeine in Stay Awake is less irritating to your stomach than coffee, according to a government appointed panel of experts. Made in the U.S.A.
Details
- Compare to Vivarin active ingredient.
- Helps restore alertness and is as safe as coffee.
- 200 mg caffeine per tablet, equal to about 2 cups of coffee.
- Maximum strength, easy-to-swallow tablets.
- Safe, fast pick-up when feeling drowsy and need to be alert.
Rating
I drink one or two Cokes a day, so I worried about two things buying this: 1) that it wouldn’t work because I am accustomed to caffeine, and 2) that eventually my tolerance would build such that I’d need to take more and more pills to get an effect. Basically, the latter seems to be the case. The first few times I took a pill, they worked well but also made my stomach ache and caused trips to the restroom. Being that I needed these to stay awake or feel less tired at work, it’s not really the time to have an upset stomach nor the place you want to smell up the restroom. Working an 8-hr shift, I needed to take two of these, approximately one every four hours, and would start feeling as tired as or more tired than I did prior to taking it between 3-4 hours after taking a pill. So they don’t last that long.
Second, after about two seperate days of the pills working but making me feel sick, the stomache aches/restroom trips went away…but so did some of the effectiveness of the pills. I had tried Five-Hour Energy drink before these pills, and the exact same thing happened, i.e. worked the first few times but made me sick, then neither worked that great nor made me sick. With neither the drink nor the pills have I used them more than 3 days a week, and the drink was actually less than that. The pills do still seem to work, but now it’s as if I need two at once to get an effect and it either doesn’t last long or my tiredness level is up and down during a 4-hr stretch. This is regardless of whether I eat with the pill or even regardless of having drank some Coke within a few hours of the pill(s). The past couple times I’ve used the pills to get through night shifts at work, I have felt pretty sleepy regardless of taking the pills with, like I said, varying levels of tiredness. And they now seem to work best when I take one upon waking up as opposed to when it’s late and I need to stay awake. Another side effect of the pills, for me, has been smelling blood in my nasal passages and even some coming out on the kleenex when blowing my nose, especially after the first few times taking the pills.
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Conclusion: they seem to work fine in the beginning, but you might experience some side effects and may end up needing to take more and more just to get the same effect as before.
Rating
Kept me awake! I would suggest eating before you take it though because you may get nauseous otherwise. I had to take two at a time because my caffeine tolerance is pretty high, but it did the job! Def equal to No Doze.
Rating
After I bought them here (I’m an Amazon fan, and if they sell it on amazon I’ll buy it there) I went to my local wallmart and they were half price (50% less than in here) maybe 4usd is not that much, but 50% is a lot.
Rating
I used Vivarin and No-Doz for a couple of years before realizing I could get the same thing much, much cheaper. I’ve owned these for two months now, and I actually prefer these over the big name brands–the low cost is just the icing on the cake.