We’ve all seen the large cans of energy drinks in the convenience store.

Current freshman at Midland University, graduate of Rider High School’s Class of 2011, Sammie Hislop, knew them a little better then most.

“I used to drink two or three trucker sized cans everyday,” Hislop said.

Although the can says “hours of energy now with no crash later,” that wasn’t necessarily true for Hislop.

“They made me feel energized for a couple hours, then I started to get dehydrated and really bad headaches,” Hislop said.

These sugar filled drinks make you crash and can really harm your body.

“Energy drinks contain large amounts of sugar, ephederine, guarana, and ginseng,” head softball coach Alisha Crouch said. “These ingredients combined can cause dizziness, shakiness, elevated blood pressure, elevated heart rate, dehydration and loss of sleep.”

For Coach Crouch, the effects of energy drinks are closer to home.

“I have seen negative effects on someone I know,” she said. “They had overdosed on energy drinks and began to develop random seizures,” Crouch said.

Coach Crouch reminds her athletes on a daily basis about the effects of drinking energy drinks.

“I do not like for my athletes to drink energy drinks and I constantly nag them about it,” Crouch said. “I do not drink energy drinks and my children won’t be allowed to drink them either.”

Not only are these drinks harmful to your body, they are also harmful to your wallet.

“I drank them so much because they tasted so good,” Hislop said. “But they made me really broke because they cost so much.”

Hislop was hospitalized her senior year for her large consumption of these beverages.

“The doctors said I needed to drink more water and that I can’t drink them anymore because they dehydrated me so bad,” Sammie said. “I haven’t drank them since.”