I just hate the taste of coffee. I had it in college, but that was it. Mt Dew Diet all day everyday except when I was pg.in 2001. I drink all day, even in the car... hence I do drink a lot. But, I can't stand water, juice, coffee... I just drink Mt Dew.

Too bad it didn't work for me - I've been drinking coffee since I was 9...for 30 years! LOL

OK - I needed an excuse to drink 4 cups of coffee each morning.......

I'm not a mouse so it must not be working on me!!

Just 4?? Lol, Kelly, I go for the whole pot! You need the whole pot!

So how much caffeine does one have to have in order NOT to get MS? I come from a true-blue Scandanavian family who had me drinking coffee and eating home-made donuts since I was 3, and I'm the only one to get it?? Some days it would pay to be a mouse..

Some of these posts are so funny!

I drink a least 3 cups every morning and love Dr. Pepper and Cokes. Now that we are pretty sure that caffeine doesn't prevent MS maybe we should try chocolate.

I haven't heard anything about caffeine or anything new since the bee sting theory years ago.

I do have something that will really sound bizaar but did anyone ever see the report about the woman with MS that was hit by lightning in her home in 1994 and it helped her walk? I worked with her husband for 6 years. True story!

Google MS and lightning...her name is Mary Clamser from OKC. I need to find out how she is doing. The story got lost in the local news when the Oklahoma City bombing happened.

Wow Becky..I'm glad it worked, but getting hit by lightning is a bit more than I'm willing to try. I'd feel like Frankenstein's monster (remember the scene where he gets zapped by all the electricity from the lightning, and Dr Frankenstein screams "It's Alive!"? I'd kinda feel like that ) Let us know if you find out how she's doing now. That would be great if she's still walking!

I've been hit by lightning!

Well, it was a glancing blow. I was in my garage (which has a cement floor with metal rebar in the cement) and this blast of lightning came down and hit the street light across the street from our house.

I was wearing my hair in a pony tail, and at the same time the bolt hit the street light there was a burning pain in the side of my head and I saw a little flash to my right (inside the garage!). The pony tail holder was the type that had a piece of metal holding the rubber band together. I had a burn on the side and back of my head for a week or two. It hurt a lot.

I think I'm lucky that all it did was burn the side of my head next to where the pony tail holder was. (oh, and it burned my hair...yuck! smell of burned hair is gross!)

I think what happened was that I was standing in some water that had puddled just inside our garage, and I was standing on cement with metal rebar in it. Somehow the electricity traveled from that bolt, either thru the ground, or it was attracted by the metal in the floor or the metal in my hairband. It could even have been regular static electricity. Freak accident stuff...scared the crap out of me when it happened.

9???? WOW, I don't think I started till college or was it when my daughter woke up 30 times a night, I don't remember (cog-fog)

Mountain Dew, at least in the US, has lots of caffeine, so you should be safe.

Cherie