After two weeks, Jazmin began to recover. “Every day I got stronger, and all my heart tests came back normal,” she explained. “They couldn’t find any problems and couldn’t explain why this happened.”

A second chance at life

Jazmin believes that caffeine from the energy drink may have combined with an undetected heart condition to trigger the crisis. “I never paid much attention to my heart health and always mistook palpitations for anxiety,” she admitted.

The experience changed her life in many ways. Both she and her boyfriend lost their jobs while she was in recovery, leaving them with mounting hospital bills. But despite the hardship, Jazmin says she now sees life differently: “I feel like I was given a second life. If this had happened when I was alone, I might not be here. The doctors told me it was a miracle — I was literally one step away from death.”

She now urges others to listen to their bodies and take health concerns seriously before they become life-threatening. Meanwhile, experts warn that the energy drink she consumed contained 200mg of caffeine — about twice the amount in two cups of coffee. While marketed as a source of vitamins and nutrients, high levels of caffeine can be dangerous, particularly for people with underlying heart conditions.