Sorry for the short blog entry this week, but I finally finished the three-week process of weaning myself off caffeine, and going from "a little each day" to "none" has turned out to be a slightly bigger step than I thought. (Hence the title of the post: "This is my brain off drugs.") Still, I'm done with my usual Thursday posting alright, and now it's just a matter of...
Friday, you say?
Huh.
Hope things went OK at work last night, then.
Any particular reason for going off caffeine, or you just decided to do it? For the past 14 years, I've picked a week during the year (usually Spring Break or just after Spring semester is over), and go cold turkey off caffeine starting Friday afternoon, and stay off for 9 days to Monday morning. I get headaches for two or three days, then they go away. Makes me feel like I could give it up if I really needed to or wanted to.
ReplyDeleteSeems silly now, but...
ReplyDeleteSomething at work was making people vaguely sick--whatever it was, it didn't last more than a couple of days (and coincided with them disassembling some disused equipment, so I think it was just a lot of dust and pollen getting into the air and inadequate filtration), but during that time, everyone was getting shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, and dizziness.
Before I started noticing that it only happened when I went into work, I thought I might be having warning signs of a heart attack. I knew my mom cut caffeine out of her diet when I was young, because she was having heart palpitations, so I thought it might be a good idea to do the same. Even after I figured out it was environmental, and after the symptoms went away, I decided it wasn't a bad resolution to keep.
It wasn't heart palpitations. Her Dr. said the caffeine was making the fibrous tissue in her chest thicken and pinch nerves, so that if she moved wrong it would cause a sharp twinge.
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