Greetings,

You become goofy.

Stay Caffeinated.

Cliff

I was getting to be an espresso junkie, so I took a week off of coffee a couple weeks ago. I ended up with a 5 day headache!

And it made for a strange, strange week of dreams. One dream involved everyone around me vomiting blue pudding. When I told one of my friends about this dream, he started laughing and interpreted the dream for me: Blue Bottle! Damn, that's exactly what the dream was about. My local roaster here in San Francisco, getting purged out of the body. hahaha.

I have since returned to drinking espresso, but I am trying to cut down lately. It doesn't help though that this bag of Misty Valley has been exceptional. Oops, had a shot at 11:00 tonight. hehehe. Seriously, though, when I drink too much, it gives me headaches in my left temple. And it feels really groggy and I feel like dung a dung dung. Definitely cutting back a bit.

Seventy percent of the respondents to Ever suffered from caffeine withdrawal? report withdrawal symptoms. For me, it usually results in a mild headache early afternoon the next day, then it's over. It's been awhile since I skipped my daily coffee/espresso. Next time I'm low on coffee, I'll skip it for a few days and report back.

Nothing happens in my case. I usually encourage people to drink lesser, and better coffee, which is exactly what I do. I am usually surrounded by people who would swallow all sorts of black liquids called falsely coffee, which in fact repulses me a little bit. Coffee to me is a passion and a science, but is not a drug that I will die without. Dark roasted and oily coffee is something that I do not deal with as it seems to me that most of the negative effects of coffee on the body are exaggerated in that case.

Me, I can quit anytime I want, so why bother?

Dan, When was the last time you were low on Coffee.

After periods of heavy consumption then going cold turkey I have experienced the headache, however under normal circumstances I just walk around asleep longer.

I drink about 5 or 6 singles over the course of a day. A few years back, I had to quit for some medical tests for two weeks. Middle of the next day, the headache started. By the evening of the 2nd day, I felt like I'd been beat with a rubber hose. Splitting headache, every joint and muscle ached. The symptoms gradually wore off over the next 4 or 5 days.

I tried once and entropy accelerated to the extent that I owe it to the universe not to stop.

Last time I quit coffee, I just smoked more. Twenty years ago I realized doing it the other way around might be smarter.