Well, if it makes your eyes hurt, why not stop drinking it?

Seriously, caffeine has the effect of constricting blood vessels in the body and thereby reducing blood flow to those areas. The coffee is probably affecting the blood flow to your eyes/forehead/sinuses and that's what's giving you the pain.

 

you may want to have you eyes looked at.
Caffeine raises the intraocular pressure but I've not heard that it causes acute glaucoma attack.
Sounds like you may just have some sinus related problem.

 

whew. I wanted to post about it constricting the bloodvessels, but I thought I might have just been making it up. I'm glad someone else posted about it before me.

 

Hahaha...c'mon, man, show some confidence!

 

Thanks for the info. folks. I'm guessing its something IN the coffee...not so much the caffeine itself. I noticed when I drink Thai Iced tea, that crap would keep me up for hours!! But no weird eyeball pain.

The pain isn't so bad that it becomes unbearable...its more of an annoyance...also seems to dry my eyeballs out a little. I know cafeine is suposed to dehydrate you or something, but this is just weird.

 

Make sure no one is putting double dosage of grinds into the coffee maker. That happened to me at work before.

 

do you remove the spoon from your cup when you drink?

 

it's a coffee caffeine rush. i have been known to pound back 3 or 4 cups of java in the morning.....may not be the best thing but whatever .....and my eyes felt like they were going to bug out like that guy from madtv

 

On a side note...this smiley pretty much sums it up:

 

Thats how I am depending on what type of roast I am drinking (that will depend on the prior night.)

I have noticed that since I have started drinking coffee more often, I bleed a whole lot more while I am getting tattooed. The first couple sessions, really no blood. The most recent, I was bleeding all over the place. Guess thats caffeine for ya.