Detox
Detox
I’m planning a caffeine detox. I can’t decide when to do it though. Maybe when Christmas break starts. I need a good three days to get over the headaches. Anyone want to join me? We can all be pissed together.
I’m planning a caffeine detox. I can’t decide when to do it though. Maybe when Christmas break starts. I need a good three days to get over the headaches. Anyone want to join me? We can all be pissed together.
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November 1st, 2005 at 11:02 pm
I went through detox a while back. Went from 3 diet cokes/day down to one (if that at all). How’d I do it? One word- Ibuprofen. Substitute one drug for the other. If heroin addicts can do it, then caffeine addicts can do it too.
November 1st, 2005 at 11:12 pm
been there. done that. went there again. did it again. every time i do it i forget why i want to do it. why are you doing it? it never has stuck with me. i love coffee too much. i don’t really drink much in the way of cokes anymore.
God bless you though. the sky will be bluer, the stars will be brighter, the air will be fresher, and the roses will smell sweeter. That is after you get through withdrawals.
November 2nd, 2005 at 9:43 am
i’m in! (just kidding)
November 2nd, 2005 at 2:38 pm
I have to do this periodically and to make it easier I take a gradual approach: cut back to one small cup in the morning for two days, switch to one small cup green tea for two days, then 1/2 cup green tea for 1-2 days then no caffeine. This way I get no headache, no lethargy.
November 2nd, 2005 at 3:08 pm
hell no!
November 2nd, 2005 at 3:13 pm
but my question remains yet unanswered. why?
November 2nd, 2005 at 6:02 pm
Weeellll, I have been plagued by very interrupted sleep lately and am trying to eliminate anything that would do it. I am sick of waking up all the time…like a newborn. But noone comes to help me back to sleep. I just lay there and think or pray or get mad cuz I can’t sleep. Unfortuantely I don’t want to go off the juice til I have planty of at home time. So I must wait. Til then I’ll try to cut back. Wish me well.
November 2nd, 2005 at 7:08 pm
Well, that is a good reason. I wish you well. I used to have the same problem. I couldn’t shut my brain off once I awoke at night. I don’t know what changed it. I make sure that when I wake up I don’t let myself think or move or anything. If I get a little bit awake, I’m dead. The other thing is, I just don’t care about anything anymore.
November 2nd, 2005 at 9:17 pm
How much caffeine are you up to a day, Martha?
November 2nd, 2005 at 9:34 pm
You should cut the stimulants and start smoking pot…of course only if you have a medical need for it. Insomnia?
November 2nd, 2005 at 9:48 pm
Yeah. That qualifies. You probably could get your insurance co. to foot the bill.
November 2nd, 2005 at 10:04 pm
What are you going to cute out besides Diet Coke?
When I wake up in the middle of night like that I pray too. But, as you know, I don’t seem to have a problem getting back to sleep.
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:22 pm
Your lack of sleep-ability could have something to do with your recent trip to a different time zone and the daylight savings time change.
November 3rd, 2005 at 7:59 pm
I have had this problem for awhile. I also wake up to go to the bathroom a lot. I was thinking the caffeine did that, too. I often have tea before school, then about 2 12oz sodas a day, possibly one more when I get home. This varies, but that is the average. Sometimes instead of tea I’ll stop at Starbucks. While in NY I think we went there every day but one. But, then again there is one every 100 yards, so it’s hard to resist.I don’t know…I just want to go to sleep and not wake up til time to get up. Is that too much to ask?
November 3rd, 2005 at 10:13 pm
no it’s not. and with that as your goal, what can it hurt to try? also stop drinking so much before you go to bed. just like with the kids. NO LIQUIDS AFTER 7 PM!
November 3rd, 2005 at 11:12 pm
T-y-l-e-n-o-l P-M!!!!!!
Oh yeah, whittle down your caffeine intake 6 oz at a time. Buy the smaller cans at the grocery so you won’t be so compelled to gulp down the entire 12 oz. For your tea, if you drink more than one cup at breakfast, alternate between caffeine loaded and caffeine free. Trick your brain. Start yourself on round-the-clock ibuprofen for a couple of days while you are decreasing your caffeine intake in order to conquer any break thru headache pain. Most importantly, try to make yourself pee atleast twice before you go to bed. Try turning on the faucet. That works for me and gives my bladder…umm….inspiration.
Some people, as they get older (I’M NOT SAYING YOU’RE OLD!!!!) their bladder habits change. Even for kids going from adolescence into adulthood. Your normal body clock gets shifted. So it’s quite possible that your night time peeing has nothing to do with caffeine intake and everything to do with age/hormones/etc…
That’s my 2 cents.
November 4th, 2005 at 7:43 am
Oh yeah, and by the way, hormones are a pain, too. Thanks Nurse KiKi(how’s that for a nickname?)…glad to have you in the family!
November 4th, 2005 at 7:45 am
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November 4th, 2005 at 8:37 am
Nurse KiKi. That’s cute! T
he hormone thing: There is only one easy solution. Yell your head off until you feel better. It may take days, and eveyone you know will hate you, but that’s a different problem which we can deal with later.
Just call me Nurse Ma Ma J.
November 4th, 2005 at 9:18 am
Nurse Kiki. I like the sound of that.
It’s way better than what my nephew Coleman used to call me when he was little. “Kinky”. I’m not joking. I even bought him a stuffed bear one time and he named it “Kinky” after me.
Kiki is WAY better!
November 4th, 2005 at 5:17 pm
I’m glad to have you in the family too Nurse J. I think that medical advice is a little late though, that yelling thing was included in my DNA. Or conditioning…or something. Anywho…already trying that. Not so hip on the people hating me.
November 6th, 2005 at 1:59 pm
Hope your caffeine detox thing works out. Up here in the currently cold, rainy, snowy Northwest not only are there an insane amount of Starbucks and other chain coffee shops, but locals love to open their own coffee/tea places. Also, many parking lots/gas stations include local & chain coffee drive thru huts (see photo example)
http://www.portlandground.com/Gresham/2005-02-16DutchBrosCoffee31.jpg
My body can’t seem to handle much caffeine (especially coffee products). Not only do I get a major buzz, but I can’t stay still and I feel like I going to barf. I’m unable to consume the caffeine to help wake me up or keep me up late when it’s needed for school. Oh well, the caffeine habit can be expensive one.
November 6th, 2005 at 7:24 pm
That is great! A drive thru coffee place would only make it worse. Thank goodness there isn’t one too nearby.
November 7th, 2005 at 8:30 am
Yeah. That’s another thing Ventura doesn’t have. What’s up with that? Too white trash? For being the perfect (an most expensive place to live) we sure have to do without alot of necessities. Like drive through caffiene and Tommy’s and Christian Book stores.
November 7th, 2005 at 9:53 am
I thought we had Christian book stores, did they go out of business? If so, I wonder if it was from charging an arm and a leg for things like Bibles that people could buy online for half as much.
November 7th, 2005 at 6:13 pm
Yeah. But that doesn’t put Salzers or Barns and Noble out of business.
November 7th, 2005 at 7:30 pm
True, but I think those stores sell a lot more (different) stuff to the same people over and over again, whereas most people probably only are going to buy one Bible every once in a blue moon. (Except for the environmentally conscious ones that read the Bible(s) on their PDAs.)
As for the other stuff in Christian book stores (music and other books) I’m betting that the internet pretty much killed that - even Christian teens don’t have a problem “stealing” music online, and those that do can buy their .99 song from iTunes instead of buying the whole album when they only want the one or two good songs that are on it.
As for books, I suspect there are probably not very many people that read a ton of books like that, and for those few that do buy so many, they’ve probably already figured out to buy them online because it’s too expensive otherwise.
November 7th, 2005 at 8:55 pm
Maybe someone should do a “coffee shop/sit and read” place with “inspriational” books and music. Then all those coffee house people could come to the “christian coffee shop” and spend $3.40 on a cup of coffee that they could make for $.25 at home.
November 8th, 2005 at 7:45 am
Salzer’s sells Bibles? What about Sam’s? They sell Bibles for super cheap. Or they get them from their friend who is VP at a Christian publishing house.
November 8th, 2005 at 5:54 pm
No. Salzers sells music for more expensive than what you can get on the internet. And Sams sells Bibles, but you can’t sit and read and have a cup of expensive coffee there. Barne’s and Noble has it all wrapped up. And Ventura has no Christian book stores, with or without expensive coffee.
November 8th, 2005 at 6:24 pm
Do I hear business idea? Although, you know how B&N didn’t really want anything Christian-y on our art projects. I wonder if they encourage people who look at christian books to buy them and get out.