Day 1
After accidentally winding up in caffeine withdrawals while on a business trip to California, going to the ER, talking with a doctor (twice), I have finally built up enough courage to go Cold Turkey.
(If you want to read the full story of pre detox events go to the bottom)
Long story short I was consuming anywhere between 100mg - 400mg with the later being most recent. I some how tapered down to 1oz espresso or 32mg. That said I have not felt %100 in about a month and a half. Which is why I want to begin the process of the end.......
How I feel
Mostly tired
Lack of energy
Not all the way coherent
(Pre Detox)
October 23rd is when I believe the flight was. It was an early morning flight (7am). I decided that I would have one cup of coffee to energize me through the day which began a soon as we landed. That night I felt mildly anxious. I thought maybe it was the fact the I was hundreds of miles away from my wife and kids. A feeling that I recall having before but usually subsides on the second day. That following morning I ran to the gas station a block away from the hotel and grabbed a cup of coffee. I drunk about half of it before my day started. That night I felt the anxiousness again and again shrugged it off. The third day was almost a repeat of the second, and on the forth day I returned home.
Once returning home we went to our favorite coffee spot and oder the usual 6 shot tall boy! I drunk it and truthfully don’t remember how I felt. I do remember feelings of anxiousness popping up out of no where through that week. One day the barista served me a drink with milk in it ( I am lactose). Lets just say I spent the first few hours of my day releasing all of the drink and what ever else was in my stomach at the time. The next day I was hesitant about the coffee so I went to 7/11 and got a regular cup. I believe it was the following day when I felt like a complete reck. So much so, that I went to get a Covid 19 test and felt like I was going to faint. I spent the rest of that day and the day following in my bed felling “Flu like” symptoms. I went to the ER and all the blood work and everything else was fine. It wasn’t until a day or so after when my wife convinced me to drink a cup of coffee that I realized all the symptoms stopped! It dawn on me I was going through Caffeine withdrawals.
I continued to drink about a cup and a half a day and was feeling half decent. Something made me want to go cold turkey (maybe because I hate the control caffeine has on the body) I lost my appetite, I was anxious, and became irritable. On day 5 I decided I had enough and drunk A half cup of coffee at 9p meaning no sleep that night. I then went back to drinking a double shot or 130mg roughly. I did that for a few days then went down to one shot or 64mg. Which is about where I a now.
