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Responses to caffeine vary wildly, but personally I experience acute anxiety a couple of hours after even one cup. It took me many years as a regular coke / tea
by dbspin 3y ago
Responses to caffeine vary wildly, but personally I experience acute anxiety a couple of hours after even one cup. It took me many years as a regular coke / tea / coffee drinker to figure out that was causing daily anxiety. I do wonder what proportion of people never make the link, although it seems prevalence of high sensitivity to caffeine is rare in the general population [1]
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4242593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4242593/
- Lazonedo 3y agoResponses vary by individual, and can vary by long term exposure too. I was hospitalized for a long time because of a very serious, bad case of mumps as an adult and in the hospital I was treated they were very serious about controlling my diet so I couldn't drink coffee for a long while. When I recovered and went back home, I started drinking the same amount of coffee I was used to, which normally wouldn't make me feel anything out of the ordinary, but because I had not been exposed to caffeine for a while, I ended up with a severe feeling of tingling in my limbs, the level of stimulation really shocked me. After a month and half (possibly a little more, I'm fuzzy on the passing of days during those times) of not drinking coffee, it was as if I had been a new coffee drinker again and my body forgot caffeine. Habitual, daily exposure can /strongly/ affect the amount of caffeine it will take for you to feel its presence at a symptomatic level, and abstaining from caffeine for a long enough period can also completely throw you back to the beginning stage.