Plan9

Hmm, I don't get these "withdrawal headaches" you jokers are referring to nearly as often as mentioned in this here thread.

I go from ~300mg a day to ~100mg a day to several days without and have no issues. I drink a ton of water and exercise.

I won't be giving up caffeine. I don't see the point. It doesn't hinder me, I don't need it to function and it's cheaper than meth.

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Baraka_Guru

Just out of curiosity, 9er, when was the last time you went down to 0 mg/day for a few days?

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Plan9

Some days while I've been on vacation. I think the first week I was back I didn't have any because I hadn't gone grocery shopping.

Granted, it's hard to gauge how I really feel because other factors such as "blowjobs" and "sleeping eight hours" were also involved.

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Baraka_Guru

Yeah, I think there's some "displacement" going on. I think sleep and blowjobs are cures for withdrawal headaches.

The reason why I ask is that withdrawal symptoms show differently in people. There are some who go from over 1,000mg/day and have no withdrawal symptoms at all going to 0. While, there are some who go from 1 or 2 cups of coffee a day to screaming at their children.

You might be fine at 100 mg, but at 0, you might feel something....being on vacation...and stuff...might have hidden it. Though it would probably have been mild.

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bagatelle

There's also this I 've heard, one should drink more water when drinking coffee as well.

Quite often drinking water enough would help feel better in general. I only tend to remember this better in summer, when it's hot.

HerrDoktor

Back when I was anorexic, I used to drink about 6 to 8 cups of coffee a day to suppress my appetite. I could go about 4 days without eating so long as I had my coffee-mate and some Folgers. Now that I'm in recovery, I don't drink coffee because it's such a huge trigger for me.

The internet says that a cup of drip coffee has about 175 mg per 7 fl oz. I'm pretty sure my coffee cups are about 7 oz because they only hold about half of my 16 oz tea kettle if I leave about an inch for the lip. So... 1050 to 1400 a day in caffeine down to almost cold turkey.

I don't think I've had any sort of withdrawal symptoms, but I still drink the occasional diet drink so I might be getting my caffeine from there. The back of my coke says it has 76 mg per 20 fl oz and the internet says diet mountain dew has 55 mg. I only drink those every now and again if I'm having a shit day at work and need some pep.

Most of my headaches and crankiness I blame on my carb-deficiency, never thought it could have been from the caffeine. Something to consider.

Baraka_Guru

Oh, man, here I go again.

I'm such a junkie.

I was back on the bean for a while, back up to my usual habits, but now I'm on a tea kick. I'm currently drinking lots of black and green tea, with some oolong thrown in, and maybe one cup of coffee on the weekend (which I hope to eliminate). I'm currently drinking as much as 200 mg to 250 mg or more, depending on the day.

So this means I've scaled back to about half by stopping the coffee again. My goal is to scale back once again to below 100 mg/day. I hope that this time it will stick. I've had some more hands on experience with what coffee does vs. tea, and I notice that coffee is brutal on my system. I notice distinctly how it causes anxiety, among other things.

I also notice the difference when I drink herbal tea instead of caffeinated tea. I want to keep my caffeine to the morning, and drink herbal tea for the rest of the day. This will give my system plenty of time to process the caffeine before the evening.

I've recently been trying out various rooibos blends, and I'm finding them rather tasty. I hope to keep things interesting by trying various herbals. The shop I go to has such a wide variety and they're always coming up with new products every month or so.

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—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

snowy

I don't get the withdrawal issues either.

I've gone caffeine free for over a week a couple of times so far this year, either due to other things getting in the way of my morning coffee, norovirus, a cold, whatever. I generally don't drink coffee when my stomach doesn't feel good, and so when I had noro, I didn't drink any for a week, nor did I drink any Diet Pepsi. To bring my electrolytes back into balance, I went for a week drinking water, 7Up/Sprite, and Pedialyte (blech).

It also doesn't seem to affect my sleep in the same way it does for other people. I can drink a Diet Pepsi at 8pm and go to bed at 10 without a problem.

I blame my dad. He can have a cup of coffee and then go take a nap. It's bizarre.

Good luck with your latest attempt, Baraka. I am certainly grateful that caffeine doesn't bug me the way it seems to bug you

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noodle

I went from a cup of coffee in the morning and four to five coke zeros throughout the day to no caffeine, period. This is day eight. My headache hasn't changed. I'm drinking 140oz of water a day and starting yoga. My headache still hasn't changed. I'm a little tired at times, and when our good coffee gets here from Stumptown, I'll go back to one cup of coffee in the morning for the reasons Redlemon mentioned and because it's the best tasting coffee I've ever had, but not for the caffeine factor.
The only time caffeine really causes me a problem is when I mix it with alcohol. The alcohol seems to amplify its effect... a tipsy, hyper Noodle is not fun. I become a drunk insomniac.

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Kookookachoo

I quit caffeine about six years ago and it now my new normal. I love coffee however, so I drink a ton of it, but all decaf. My problem is that if a barista or the person at DD gives me regular, I shake like a leaf.

the problem is when you quit...be ready for at least a few days of headaches, bad mood, and lethargy.