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Two weeks ago I, along with the rest of the family, was laid low by a thorough stomach flu. I couldn't keep down my coffee, so I went (or rather slept) without, and subsequently got a withdrawal headache on top of already not feeling very well. Now as is my habit, immediately vowed everlasting enmity to the traitor, coffee.
Problem is, now that I'm back at work, I find myself not quite over it. It was easy at home, where nobody aside from me partook! Everyone's drinking coffee at the office. All the time. Breaks are spend on a hajj to the cafeteria. Lunches in the office are concluded with communal coffee consumption. Everything smells of coffee, I now realize. The coffee is free, dammit! Gratis!
Please give me reasons to stick to my crusade against the cursed bean. Lend me moral support. God knows I need it in this darkest of hours.
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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