[valine]

I experience a chalky scent from high dose caffeine pills. I don’t think the taste is unique to the intravenous caffeine.

[0_____0]

I've been trying to figure out if other people get this too! Finally I'm able to corroborate this. Never thought of it as chalky, to me it's indescribable in a way that one might attempt to approximate with such a word.

Not related to caffeine pills though, I get it from caffeine itself.

[joecool1029]

Are they pure or adulturated with calcium? Most of the caffeine pills I've spotted are not just caffeine and I think this is the chalkiness you would be experiencing.

[valine]

They’re pure as far as I know. Would calcium be listed as an ingredient?

[joecool1029]

Yes should be on the box somewhere, they usually claim to add it to reduce bone loss. Example label: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/lookup.cfm?setid=0dbca...

[travisjungroth]

It’s very unlikely they’re pure caffeine. If it’s a pressed pill (versus a capsule) they’re definitely not. It needs binders to hold it together.

[valine]

Gotcha, I take capsules. They’ve got rice powder to add volume I assume, but other than that I think it’s pure caffeine.

[none_to_remain]

I found coffee drinking + mask wearing pretty cumbersome during the situation, and I was surprised they still make No-Doz. Seemed like something that would have been regulated away by now. Don't notice any chalkiness though.

[brnaftr361]

Same, and on occasion I have had coffee do the same.

That's if I'm reading this correctly and you're describing the smell in your blood?

[valine]

I assume so, either that or its neurological. Its like the scent comes from inside my head.