I used to have panic attacks a few times a week. Ever since I quit coffee, it's maybe few times per year. I wasn't a heavy coffee drinker either, just 1 per day on most days, sometimes 2.
I quit caffeine
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#152I'll be the contrarian. I was a pot per day drinker and quit for three months and felt no different, just missed the coffee. I quit the quit and I'm back to a pot per day, feeling much better.
> felt no different > feeling much better Does not compute :P
I interpreted this as
> felt no different
Felt no physical difference, just missed the coffee
> feeling much better
I'm happier now that I'm back on coffee
Re: I quit caffeine
#153For me, I didn't like being physically addicted to something. I've switched to decaf coffee, because I still like coffee and the morning ritual. But I limit myself to 2 cups, and I have herbal tea later in the day if I still want something to sip on. The same goes for (added) sugar - it's amazing how you feel when you stop eating candy/ice cream/sweetened drinks/etc. And it's surprising how bad you feel when do you h…
Have you found good decaf anywhere? I drink only espresso and haven't found any decaf that isn't miserably bland.
If anything, I am drinking the best coffee of my life after switching to decaf, after saying no to bad supermarket and office coffee. In many big cities it is possible to find very high quality specialty decaf coffee in local roasters.
My favourite is Colombian beans decaffeinated with the "Sugar Cane Process". In my opinion this method produces the best tasting coffee that preserves the qualities of the origin beans and it might be more environmentally friendly compared to methods that require double shipping the beans to a 3rd country for decaffeination.
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#154Four years ago I decided for New Years to get myself addicted to caffeine and alcohol. I couldn't get the alcohol to work, but the caffeine has been wonderful. I am quite happy with the effects; it's great stuff. No more afternoon drowsiness, easier to get up in the early AM, etc. For me, it's sweet tea, rather than coffee, though.
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#155"My heart skips a beat. It's been happening more frequently, so I look it up and they're apparently called "palpitations." I ignore it. It's 9am. I'm anxious. Nothing out of the norm, though.[...] But even having more than one cup of decaf brings on the shakes and skipped beats. The caffeine microdosing adds up, I guess."
If you feel permanently anxious in the morning to the point that it's perceived as normal it might not be the caffeine that's the issue, and a few cups of decaf have so little caffeine it should not give you any physical symptoms. (a few cups of decaf contain about as much caffeine as a few pieces of chocolate). Might be worth checking out if there's some other reason for it.
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#156I like that he kept a ritual going with the press: using non-caffeinated herbals. I'm thinking about quitting caffeine too. Caffeine plus neuropathy makes very shaky hands, and I don't need ANY extra free-floating anxiety.
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#157I had this exact same problem just back in November. Regular coffee drinker (1-2 cups), having pre-workout before the gym. Starting having an absurd amount of anxiety and what I can best describe as a panic attack or flu-like symptom making my heart race & feelings of palpitations. Go to the ER, they find nothing wrong. Doctors say "cut your stimulates and lower your stresses". Seemed to be a combination of work stre…
What pre workout were you taking? Some have over 10 cups of coffee worth of caffeine.
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#158Amphetamine is so much better. And I know that people claim it's addictive but I haven't used it in a month and don't really feel an urge. I usually just use it when I want immense task focus but I get pretty good focus manually myself now that I remember the amphetamined feeling.
I got into caffeine about six months ago and after the first week I got a headache when I woke up so I quit it because that's not okay.
I recently restarted with a drink of coffee about thrice a week (irregularly) and have found that I get no withdrawal when I stop on this cycle.
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#159I'm curious if there are a lot of people like this that really feel some extreme effect from caffeine like this.
I've read articles about people drinking too much, too little, being addicted, or having withdrawal symptoms, but I never really experienced any of that during my coffee-life so far. I also don't often meet people that do, but sometimes when I do meet someone that has a really intense relationship with caffeine it does tell me that there must be something to it.
You'd think that if this is such a potent 'drug', it would affect everyone at last at some base level, and others even more. But in my variations of 1 to 8 cups each day, sometimes none for days, sometimes only espresso, sometimes only filter coffee it's never really done anything 'different'. Granted, the larger quantities of coffee were the crappy kind which probably never really got a good extraction anyway, but even 2 or 3 proper cups of filter coffee would have a caffeine content that should create the same symptoms or dependency I would think. But it doesn't (for me). I'm not really more less sleepy depending on the coffee quantity. I can sleep minutes after drinking coffee (if tired), yet not drinking coffee doesn't make it 'hard' to stay awake.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
magnesium oxide ok? (cheapest one)
Magnesium Chloride is the cheapest, magnesium oxide has the strongest laxative effect. Take between 5-10 grams per day spread out throughout the day. That will yield around 625-1250 mg elemental magnesium, 1.5 to 3x the RDA, but you likely need to it up from a deficiency. There is no way to overdose (gut rejects it automatically).
Thank you for your insights. I will try that next vacation.