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I quit drinking any caffeine for a week once, an experience I won't forget any time soon. I think some have varying degree of withdrawal symptoms but I recall a
by DigitalSea 13y ago
I quit drinking any caffeine for a week once, an experience I won't forget any time soon. I think some have varying degree of withdrawal symptoms but I recall a couple of days in having one of the worse migraines I have ever experienced, if I moved my head it hurt, blinked or even chewed my head would ache. I got hand tremors, I became incredibly fatigued and somewhat antisocial as well. After a week I returned to normal but have since started drinking coffee and tea again as it is hard to not drink any of those (especially client meetings). So it's definitely an addiction, one that your body is quite dependent on.
Although even though I tried to stop drinking, I never once had the urge to make a tea or coffee, it's weird in that caffeine addiction seems to be one of those things we don't feel like we need and more of just a habitual need if anything. I never got to the point in my week detox where I felt like killing people for a caffeine fix or stealing from loved ones.
It's surprisingly hard to avoid caffeine, it's in more things than most people realise. It's in soft drink, it's in chocolate, a lot of decaf coffee still has low levels of caffeine. While if you want to live a life without, tea, coffee and chocolate you might mostly avoid ingesting caffeine, lets be realistic, it's unavoidable...
- aptwebapps 13y agoWhen I have coffee or tea on a regular schedule and it's interrupted I get mild but irritating headaches. This was happening a lot a while ago and I got sick of it and quit. I was only drinking that much of it at the time so my withdrawal wasn't too bad, although I'm sure there's individual variation as well. Now that I don't have it on a regular basis, I'll have a small cup of weak tea if I'm tired and have a lot of work. The effect of even a small amount is immense when you don't use it regularly. I can have it at about two in the afternoon and I'll still be alert way past my bedtime. The only problem with is tea or coffee smells so good when someone else is having some ...