Quitting coffee and the ensuing effects

yeah, my dr said i'll feel a million dollars better with my daily headaches (i know, sad!). migraines, maybe not, but i won't be taking a frightening amount of excederin to counteract the withdrawal of excederin.

thank you, all. i can do it, i guess. i mean, anything is better than having a headache all the time, right?

i *might* be able to drink coffee eventually, but NO MORE excederin. EVER.

yeah, my dr said i'll feel a million dollars better with my daily headaches (i know, sad!)

that didn't make sense. blame my creeping headache that is coming on.

WITHOUT my daily headaches.

maybe you also need yoga!

but no headstands

http://www.celestialseasonings.com/images/products/herbal-teas/roastaroma-lg.jpg

YOGA!! excellent idea!

laurel and i were just discussing what i need to take up to make me seem badass now that i'm officially boring.

it's down to jujitsu or kickboxing.

If I ever go off coffee cold turkey, I'll have to spend about four days in bed with the lights off.

does that TASTE like coffee, but isn't?

fuck! i'm going to be unconscious for several weeks.

remind me again what the problem with decaf coffee is? are you not allowed to have that because of the teensy tiny amount of caffeine?

pretty much!

no soda either! (not that i drink that much of that anyway)

srsly, i'm going to be a zombie

but, if it helps, it helps, i guess.

- that roastaroma tea or something like it sort of tastes like coffee
- there are these roasted chicory or hazelnuts or whatever swiss beverages you can buy in health food stores
- decaf coffee

there is a coffee alternatives thread but i need to not be in the office any longer

i may try to roastarama, but it may make me sad.

i'll see how i do cold turkey. the excederin i took at noon is wearing off and my brain hurts.

i apologize in advance if i'm grumpy to any of you in the next few weeks.

I love Roastaroma. I drink it every weekday morning. It doesn't taste exactly like coffee, but it's made with chicory and cinnamon and barley and things like that, so it has a similar robustness. It also gives me the same "I am at work and about to start my very productive morning" feeling. But it's been a few years since I drank coffee regularly, so maybe I have just gotten used to the alternative.

MOLLY I'VE GOT IT: SAYOC KALI -- FILIPINO KNIFE FIGHTING.

A friend of mine who is TEENY TINY and very shy used to take this, it look AWESOME.

http://bladearts.com/SayocKali.aspx

jaymc, thank you for the heads up about the celestial seasons goodness. Generally, I don't like chicory coffee, but something is better than nothing, right?

LAUREL OMG

No one will ever say, "Oh, Molly? That librarian who has 3 cats and knits and doesn't drink? She's boring!" IF I CAN IMPRESS THEM WITH MY FILIPINO KNIFE SKILLS.

"Sayoc Kali is ALL BLADE - ALL THE TIME. "

it's official. i want to die.

Oh Molls. u_u

Are you home? Please go home.

no, i'm at work, moaning to my coworkers.

i think i will crack open my box of chamomile tea and see if i can trick myself with a caffeine-free hot beverage.

agh

help.. meeee

Quitting or cutting back?

quitting

for a week at least

Medical reasons, or? I can't imagine quitting coffee and I only started drinking it maybe six months ago. If I don't have coffee within an hour of waking up I get a horrid headache, lucidity is some weird distant memory...I sympathize.

Can you taper off with decaf/caf mixed or do you have to just stop? If you have to go cold off caffiene, it can be rough, but if it's coffee you're avoiding, sub in some cola or caffienated aspirin to help with the headaches, etc. There's also caffienated soap (Shower Shock - caffiene will absorb through your skin).

If you've been drinking a lot and just want to reduce the intake, a week of cold turkey sounds like a bad idea. Splitting headache misery now and a day of screaming coffee nerves on your first day back after break. I'd just drop back one cup per day, repeat weekly until you're down to the level you want to be at.

(xposts)

I did this last summer, it sucks for about a week, then you get over it

Huh, Jaq was not kidding about caffeinated soap!
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/01/03/shower-shock.jpg

i only drink one or two a day. been having some stomach/digestive problems lately tho, and i feel like coffee is probably NAGL for me as i tend to feel pretty crappy after a cup.

Yeh coffee is pretty acidic. Do you drink it black or with milk?

black (so it ain't the milk)

Milk and cream, being basic, actually helps cut down the acidity of coffee - so you might try that

but then you might feel like a wuss

Yeah, I was gonna say, drop back to one cup and have it au lait, on ice maybe. Cold turkey = BAD. Hard to get anything done when blinking hurts.

try some coffee from Indonesia - they tend to be low in acidity. also, Trader Joe's sells this:

http://breweddaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/frenchroastla.jpg

drink something mildly caffeinated like green tea

I switched from coffee to tea this year and have been happy.

Yeah, I was gonna say, drop back to one cup and have it au lait, on ice maybe. Cold turkey = BAD. Hard to get anything done when blinking hurts.

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i did it with ciggies after a decade of pack/day, i can do it with coffee!

im rockin green tea but at this point it kind of feels like bringing a knife to a gunfight

Tea, hot or cold, gives me four-alarm heartburn more often than coffee does (which is never).

tea w/o milk gives me heartburn, so i pour in a few drops (not in green tea obv)

When I quit coffee, I found Excedrin really helped...which is when I learned two Excedrin has as much caffeine as a cup of coffee.

coffee i miss u boo :(

aghgahgahgshag

guys help

By the spirit of Quetzocatl may this demon bean beGONE

Caffeine soap. Or, make a poultice of grounds, strap it around your torso like a bandito.

I recently came back to the welcoming arms of coffee after 6 years away, and it is heaven.

You enabler!