Cutting Out Caffeine: A Disaster

sparky65

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So I thought I would do myself a "favor" and completely cut out caffeine since it's not great for people with anxiety and since my caffeine intake was...well...LOTS, I thought I would feel better in general because of the amount that I was consuming everyday.So on Wednesday I decided "no more" to see how that would go. By Thursday night I had a screaming headache...I had brain-fuzz and couldn't comprehend anything I was reading....couldn't even stay focussed, or even really know what was going on when I was watching a movie. By Saturday morning I had become very lethargic and the anxiety level that day went through the roof!!!I kind of chalked it up to the normal anxiety/BFS stuff and since I had brain-fuzz, I didn't put it all together with cutting out the caffeine. When I finally had that "ah-ha" moment last night, I scooted out and grabbed an extra large coffee...worth a try right? The headache, shakes, anxiety and brain-fuzz wasn't going away, so it was worth a try. Well, I woke up this morning all peechy-keen. WHEW!!!I'm going to eventually dramatically cut down on my caffeine intake...I'm just going to S L O W L Y cut it out.I hope my non-thinking stupidity stops someone else from not doing what I did....duh me!!! :confused:
 
For me I stopped cold turkey with no problems, but I probably didn't have as much as you per day. I'm sure everyone is different with respect to withrawel symptoms.
 
Hi Johnny,Yes, everyone is different and some people can cut it out cold turkey with no problems. That's GREAT that it went that way for you. You got it right that everyone is different, I thought I'd put my experience out there since I found that stopping cold turkey wasn't the best way for me, and probably not the way that would be recommended to go about it.I just thought I would let people know in case they tried it (or are going to) to give them a heads-up on what they could expect - put 2 and 2 together quicker than I did. It was NOT a fun experience and ended up causing more stress than was needed.Are you still off of caffeine? Do you feel any difference being off of it?I'm slowly cutting back now...it's easy to do really, easier than I thought it would be. I'm just hoping to see some benefits at some point. :)
 

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