I successfully reduced my coffee intake from 3-4 cups/day average to <2/week, for about 1.5 years so far. I’ve also gone totally decaf twice within that period (about 2 months each time) and found that after the 3-4 week mark I didn’t really miss it, so it’s possible you’ll see some change even if you’re through the initial withdrawal period.
Initially I cut back for similar reasons to you, but this led to me realizing that caffeine had been a trigger for these weird fleeting déjà vu episodes I’d experienced for years, which I now recognize as focal seizures — mild enough to not need actual treatment (you wouldn’t notice even if you were talking to me when it happened), but this has helped push caffeine from daily productivity tool to recreational drug I occasionally enjoy on weekends.
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I successfully reduced my coffee intake from 3-4 cups/day average to <2/week, for about 1.5 years so far. I’ve also gone totally decaf twice within that period (about 2 months each time) and found that after the 3-4 week mark I didn’t really miss it, so it’s possible you’ll see some change even if you’re through the initial withdrawal period.
Initially I cut back for similar reasons to you, but this led to me realizing that caffeine had been a trigger for these weird fleeting déjà vu episodes I’d experienced for years, which I now recognize as focal seizures — mild enough to not need actual treatment (you wouldn’t notice even if you were talking to me when it happened), but this has helped push caffeine from daily productivity tool to recreational drug I occasionally enjoy on weekends.
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