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What are the symptoms of caffeine withdrawal?
Regular caffeine consumption reduces sensitivity to caffeine. When caffeine intake is reduced, the body becomes oversensitive to adenosine. In response to this oversensitiveness, blood pressure drops dramatically, causing an excess of blood in the head (though not necessarily on the brain), leading to a headache.
This headache, well known among coffee drinkers, usually lasts from one to five days, and can be alleviated with analgesics such as aspirin. It is also alleviated with caffeine intake (in fact several analgesics contain caffeine dosages).
Often, people who are reducing caffeine intake report being irritable, unable to work, nervous, restless, and feeling sleepy, as well as having a headache. In extreme cases, nausea and vomiting has also been reported.
References.
Caffeine and Health. J. E. James, Academic Press, 1991. Progress in Clinical and Biological Research Volume 158. G. A. Spiller, Ed. Alan R. Liss Inc, 1984.
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Weaning from coffee
I was drinking 6-8 shots of espresso from my espresso maker in the morning, or a triple latte from starbucks- then following up with regular American coffee at work throughout the morning- sometimes an additional 3-4 cups. Then a tea or soda with lunch - I was feeling like crap by 3-4 with a huge drop in energy and it really didn't "supress" my appetite as some claim.
Last week I stopped my espresso in the morning and started drinking the coffee at work.
Yesterday Sunday I had no coffee - I was unusually tired all day.
Today I made it through but had about 1 cup around 10am and a diet pepsi for lunch - by end of day I had a hurendous headache- it's just so hard at work - the smell, the habit.
The taste wasn't as appealing as before and I did not finish the coffee or soda.
I hope i can shake IT by end of week- who knew something like this could creep up into your life so quick?!?!
normal healthy
Just goes to show most people are fat because they are greedy and eat too much - not 'metabolism' blah blah blah.
Now if they could just get the willpower without having to by hypnotised they would be a normal healthy size book search.
i got sick a day or two ago
i got sick a day or two ago think it was food poisoning couldn't keep anything in didn't go to the hospital and didn't get my regular caffeine fix. i think the food poisoning is gone but the caffeine withdrawal is still there headache cold sweats pain in behind my eyes wierd sensation in mouth and it scares me i don't drink or smoke because i don't like the thought of being addictted to anything but here i am in the cluthches of something so seemingly innocent as coffee i don't think i drink alot of caffee only four or five cups a day. i just don't want to be dependant on anything to enjoy my day like today i don't have the energy to run and play with my daughter and thats not good coffee
Coffee quitting: on 5-23 I did..6 days after..
Was drinking: a) 2 or 3 regular brewed at home american coff. at 7 am 2) 1 expresso with milk(cortadito in Miami) (small latte) at 9am 3) 5 same as latter between 10am and 5pm...for years (mixed in with some capuccino's/black tea/misto's etc).
Today: a) attention dissipated 2)Jitters 3)Minor headaches
no desire to go-back to coffee 4)drink green tea in the morning and water during day 5)Must eat-snack less to avoid substituting coff with snacks.
Main problem: coffee to me was a social thing, hard to substitute with water!
I've been off Caffeine for 3 years now - my experience
Thought I’d share my experience after quitting caffeine. I was never a heavy coffee drinker as compared to some people out there, but I have always really liked coffee and diet pepsi…probably had 2-3 coffees per day and one diet pepsi. I also went through a period when I took ephedra for about 6 months or so. I quit about 3 years ago cold turkey and went through a mild form of the withdrawals that you’re all familiar with. I chose to quit after reading “Caffeine Blues”, which is a great book, easy to read, and filled with a lot of common sense.
The changes I’ve noticed in that time:
• Memory is significantly improved, both short and long term. No question about this, I’ve even had people comment to me.
• Energy level throughout the day is more constant. I have as much energy at the end of the day as at the beginning. Of course, diet plays a big role in this as well.
• Easier decision making because I have better context for most things (this is a hard one to explain, but it’s as though I’m able to process and consider more information at once)
• Sleep much harder and require a little less sleep
I saw a show on alternative medicine about a year ago that profiled 3 people seeking treatment for low energy and depression. One of the three people was a single dad with 3 little kids. He was tired all the time, short fused with his kids, and said he wasn’t the kind of dad he wanted to be. He wanted to come home from the work day with energy to focus on the kids and give them his best. He was assigned acupuncture treatment. The acupuncturist had him quit ALL stimulants, coffee & tea, and diet coke, to which he was addicted. A couple of months later they revisited the three people. He was the only one that had any success with his alternative treatment and he said a big part of it was attributable to cutting out caffeine. He was like a different person, filled with calm energy. You could hear it in his voice and see it in his demeanor. In addition to having lots of energy left over to enjoy his kids, as they walked through his house he pointed out home improvement projects that he had completed (ie: retiled the kitchen floor after the kids went to bed) and commented that before he would never have even considered taking them on. It reinforced what I was experiencing as I had been off caffeine for a couple years at that point. I wish I knew the name of the show or which channel I saw it on.
I still have tea once in a while but not every day. I’ve grown to not like the feeling of being caffeinated and usually regret having it shortly afterwards. Generally, I try not to have any caffeine at all.
Hope this helps some of you. There’s no doubt in my mind that quitting caffeine is the way to go. It’s counterintuitive but by letting your body relax more you’re a lot more productive.
I quit drinking coffee last
I quit drinking coffee last Thursday and by Friday wasn't feeling so good. Sat morning I was woken up by the most absoultly horrible heartburn and couldn't fall back asleep. It stayed at a very high level of intensity for about 4 hours. So much that I almost went to the hospital (and I am not someone who ever goes. Even for broken bones). After is subsided, I still had a small but noticable amount of pain in my chest. Sunday morning, and it happened all over again. But this time, after the heartburn went away, it was followed by just as painful bowel bloating. I looked like I was ready to pop and I couldn't even bend over without yelling in pain. After taking gasx it slowly went away. Now I'm someone who has a bowel movement atleast 2-3 times a day. I eat ALOT but it's all very healthy and high in fiber but since quitting coffee I had only gone 2 times and only a fraction of the size. I decided to get coffee Sunday evening so see if it would help. Nothing happened so I had more today and after only about 20 mins I couldn't hold it in if I tried.
Is it possible that by quitting coffee I had backed up my bowels and therefore not allowed for proper drainage of stomach acid causing the excess amount to flow back into my esophagus?
coffee for a lot of peole
coffee for a lot of peole stimulates the bowels to release, and from my experience that if u over stimulate then the body will naturally go the opposite way, or become sluggish. Also, coffee is very dehydrating, even tho, it can still produce loose stools. Wen stopping coffee, the body is dehydrated from consuming coffee regularly, so will not have much water in the bowels, it has also been overstimulated so, when not drinking coffee it goes sluggish. Giving it time your body will get back into balance, even tho u may b tempted to have coffee just to produce a bowel movement, this is prob not 4 the best, instead u could do an enema or try some herbal, mild laxatives and ween off them.
What do you mean heavy consumer !?
How can someone who drinks 4 espressos a day classify themselves as a heavy user ? I've drunk that in my first Americano of the day. I may drink 6-8 of those in a day, i.e. 24-32 espressos a day. I think I've just scared myself as I haven't figured it out like this before - it also doesn't seem that much to me, one cup (i.e. 14 oz Americano) every couple of hours or so through the day. Maybe I should do something about my caffeine intake......
An Americano is an espresso
An Americano is an espresso with a whole bunch of water. It is NOT equivalent to 4 espressos. So you are NOT having 24 - 32 espressos a day, more like 6 - 8, or the equivalent a typical Italian citizen might consume on a daily basis.
Caffeine War!
Ok,
So I'm about to hit 25 and have been a long-time caffeine consumer since I was 16. Everybody who knows how addicted I am. So, I know I feel better without caffeine and probably look better too, but it's this whole emotional thing. Like it reminds me of my mom or something. So I've been sick for three days and literally am bed-ridden. Therefore, I've switched to black tea instead:) And I really think the strong, strong, strong espresso I've been drinking, like four shots a day, is finally taking its toll on my body. I've very achy, bored, sleepy, anxious, right now, but a part of me does feel good. Ok, Thanks for listneing!