Overdosed with coffee - crashed really badly.

[svetoslav80]

Someone knows a dumber method for crashing?

 

[Wonko]

You could try pushing a car uphill?

That should do it.

 

[Milo]

Someone knows a dumber method for crashing?

Oh dear, why, why why?

 

[svetoslav80]

I'm on antidepressants for 4 months now and I'm crashing just as often and as bad as before, only without the feeling of anxiety. What an improvement.

 

[Milo]

I'm on antidepressants for 4 months now and I'm crashing just as often and as bad as before, only without the feeling of anxiety. What an improvement.

That is because antidepressants do not fix ME. It fixes depression. Coffee doesn’t fix ME either i am afraid.

 

[TigerLilea]

I can not drink regular coffee, otherwise I get really bad panic attacks. Me and caffeine are not friends.

 

[Mij]

Caffeine drains my energy, but if I can stick to 3 cups/week I'm doing ok.

 

[NelliePledge]

Decaf only and occasionally otherwise I’m more or less guaranteed a sleepless night and it’s consequences

 

[erin]

Coffee is like poison to me. I noticed that I am no longer able to eat dark chocolate either, if I eat dark chocolate start panting like an old dog almost as bad as if I drink coffee. Seriously, allergic to dairy no milk choc either! I guess pleasure is not allowed if you have ME.

First, I gave up coffee.
Then alcohol, then,
bread and pastries (gluten)
Cheese (dairy)
Chocolate

the list is getting longer.

Worst was dairy, I loved cheese. With wine .

 

[Kitty]

I must just be used to it, after half a century of a frankly disgraceful cola habit...

Given it up a number times for an extended period, but it doesn't make that much difference!

Hope you feel better soon, @svetoslav80.

 

[Mij]

@erin I've noticed lately that the hot chocolate drinks with raw cacao powder are starting to make me feel a little jittery too.

I almost purchased a Nespresso Vertuo coffee machine but that would have been the point of no return and the end of me!

I guess next will be dairy

 

[erin]

Oh no! @Mij I hope it's a one off.

 

[MEMarge]

My daughter benefits from a daily coffee or Coke (the Cola kind)

 

[Trish]

Caffeine makes my heart race and last time I tried more than very weak green tea, made my heart skip beats too. And it keeps me awake and makes me jittery. I don't have any now except the trace in my one cup of very weak green tea a day.

 

[erin]

Along with the palpitations I feel very nauseous and dizzy if I drink coffee. I don't enjoy decaff at all. And even decaff makes me fell a bit nauseous too.

 

[shak8]

Someone knows a dumber method for crashing?

Well, if the coffee was single origin (one finca) Central American light roast then maybe it was worth it?

 

[lunarainbows]

Oh dear I can no longer have coffee tea or chocolate. It gives me panic attacks and with weird heart issues. However I do drink white hot chocolate. It's divine if you like white chocolate.

 

[MerryB]

Oh dear, maybe try decaf? I have just discovered you can get very nice decaf ground coffee

My dumbest method of crashing is going downstairs to get a drink, forgetting why I went, going back upstairs with something I didn't need, remembering I need a drink, going back down to get one, forgetting why I went... repeat several times... collapse

 

[Snow Leopard]

You could try pushing a car uphill?

That should do it.

Tried that, not strong enough to push a car uphill!

The coffee thing I can relate to (I'm not a coffee drinker, too little caffeine, I feel nothing, more and I can't concentrate and then end up crashing)

 

[James Morris-Lent]

Tea really can give me a boost but I think I'm one of those people with terribly slow caffeine metabolism. If I have two cups in a day I can't get to sleep and I still feel it going the next morning. I envy people who can suck down coffee all day if they want and have no problem. Must allow for a much more targeted approach of caffeine hits.

I was eating a lot of dark chocolate for a while but I noticed I was really irritable a lot of the time because of it. For some reason tea doesn't have that effect.

Caffeine makes my heart race and last time I tried more than very weak green tea, made my heart skip beats too. And it keeps me awake and makes me jittery. I don't have any now except the trace in my one cup of very weak green tea a day.

What's strange for me is I drink a black-green tea blend with no trouble. But I got some plain green and got all sorts of palpitations and insomnia and general weird body feelings from that. A family friend with fibromyalgia also reports that green tea specifically gives her palpitations, but apparently black tea is fine.