KHAAAAAAAAfeine!

[zingkotori]

Turns out it's quite possible all my recent drama is caused by caffeine. Not just the depression and that day of manic insanity, but other stuff, too. A whole range of unpleasantness that I blamed on a whole range of factors very well might just come down to that. Ye Olde Internette has a lot to saySo maybe I'll quit for a while, see how I feel

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i heart coffee

[xpmorgan]

so, when i had my wisdom teeth out, the docs gave me this massive, nasty, brutal, turn-your-brain-to-mush painkiller and said to me:

1. no alcohol for a week
2. no smoking for a week
3. no caffeine for a week

guess which one i couldn't go without?

xp

[me_n_mr_t]

damn girl I don't envy you, friends, money, lovers, spouses, habits, good times and bad, all come and go, but the one thing that I can say that has been consistent through it all has been....coffee. sad but true. Shall we send someone over now to shoot you????

Good luck! lg

[zingkotori]

No shooting, please. As long as I still have jelly beans, I'll make it through.

[purple_fiction]

I tried to go off coffee for awhile because I became frightened of carcinogens.
But, without caffeine, I was worthless in seminar. Now, I know my education depends on it.

[zingkotori]

Education? They do educations there now? Damn, I should have gone after one of those. All I got out of college was good friends and hangovers.

[me_n_mr_t]

has anything changed since?

[zingkotori]

Well, the hangovers are a lot less frequent these days.

[frogpyjamas]

I've gone off caffeine for a month or two at a time, it was a good experience. My current way of life is caffeine only half the week, and one beverage per day. It's not going to take you more than a day or 1.5 day to get it out of your body, so maybe they mean two months to stop craving it? Caffeine is a surge function, so it only takes something like 17 hours to get to less than 1% of the original concentration from 8oz of coffee. I made my calculus class figure it out.

[zingkotori]

Wow. If I'd had you as a teacher, I might have learned something about math.

I went back and looked up the two months figure. It's two months for the body's stress hormones to return to normal levels after being accustomed to daily jolts.