Comments on: Missing Caffeine

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:05:35 +0000

I think I have caffeine immunity at this point. I can literally fall asleep in my big chair watching television as I’m enjoying a nice cup of coffee, only to wake up to the slurping sounds of my cocker spaniel standing on the end table with his muzzle in the mug drinking what’s left of the coffee.

Then HE’S the one who bounces off the walls all night!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:47:25 +0000

I’m a pretty lightly caffeinated guy, but I do need my jolt in the morning. I’m pretty useless without it. Because of the whole pancreas thing, I’m not allowed to touch a drop of alcohol for the next 6 months or so. (Doctor will reassess and let me know when light consumption may be permissible.)

On, the one hand, I really don’t miss having a drink when I want one (except for a mild pang when the idea first pops into my head), but I also find that I’m sleeping less soundly than I’m used to.

Any change in your sleep habits?

By: Josh Gelatt

Josh Gelatt — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:46:38 +0000

For a moment I thought the caffeine-drinking secret society was trying to shut me down!

By: Josh Gelatt

Josh Gelatt — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:45:31 +0000

oops,

….It like calling yourself a vegetarian but eating fish, or a tree-hugger but having a real Christmas tree.

By: Shawn Powers

Shawn Powers — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:45:16 +0000

Ok Josh, I’m sure that was accidental — but your cut off sentence made me laugh out loud. Were you discovered drinking decaf? HA!

By: Josh Gelatt

Josh Gelatt — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:43:33 +0000

I think caffeine people perform a ritualistic sacrifice on those in the inner circle discovered drinking decaf. It’s like calling your

By: mattw

mattw — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:39:40 +0000

Janiece, Decaf? What’s the point of that?

By: Janiece

Janiece — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:37:18 +0000

*pssstt! Hey Shawn! pssstt!*

They make decaf coffee!

And no one needs to know!

By: Kisintin

Kisintin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:01:39 +0000

I accidentally went without coffee yesterday morning. I couldn’t lift my head from the table until about lunch time. Now I have to say “sorry” to a lot of people at work and think up a story why I was in such a foul mood.

Addiction to legal stuff is Awesome!

By: Josh Gelatt

Josh Gelatt — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:27:12 +0000

Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? What will your coffee buddies think of you?

You’ll have to get a new set of friends. Caffeine people can’t hang out with non-caffeine people. Sure, you can say hi and wave and stuff, but the inner circles must remain pure.

I don’t make the rules. Like Gravity and the universal hatred for polka music, this is simply a law of nature.

By: kim

kim — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:57:26 +0000

NO COFFEE?
I don’t think I could do it. It is 8:54am and I am on my 5th cup..and there will be many many more. My doc had once said I should stop drinking coffee…I was working days/afternoons and midnights all in the same week, and it was the only thing that kept me going. I let her live, cause doctors of course are in great shortage around here.

Yeah for being headache free..and you are a stronger man than I for making it through.

By: Shawn Powers

Shawn Powers — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:56:00 +0000

Sadly, I did mean “pots” as opposed to cups. It’s usually more the drive thru 20oz cups that add up.

I still miss it.

By: mattw

mattw — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:24:23 +0000

I’m usually a two caffeine drink per day kind of guy. I get plenty enough headaches without giving up that wonderful drug, so I only go off of caffeine if I really have to.

And did you really mean 3-4 pots of coffee a day or did you mean cups? ‘Cause 3-4 pots, yeah, I could see why your doctor would want you to stop.

By: alphakamp

alphakamp — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:56:15 +0000

I never used to drink coffee until I worked in ‘IT’ For over 4 years. No I have to have CAFE BUSTELO with cinnamon.

By: Vince

Vince — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:35:35 +0000

My world has very, very few vices. Caffeine is legal, and is my friend.

Having to give up caffeine because you have to is sad, but I know people who know they have a medical reason for changing their habits, but still don’t. So go you!

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:20:17 +0000

You sound like most addicts coming out of chemical dependency.

Normal is strange because it seems totally normal yet something is gone. What’s gone is the chemical addiction.

I’m typing all this in my garage having a smoke while it’s 15 degrees out and that seems totally normal. ie: addiction is not normal at all.

By: catherine (FOOD SNOB)

catherine (FOOD SNOB) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:52:38 +0000

Wow. Congrats. I’m glad you’re headache-free, finally!

I only drink a cup of coffee per day, (two, on very rare occasions,) and the potential for headaches is enough to make me keep drinking the java! Well that, and I love the stuff.

By: Shawn Powers

Shawn Powers — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:50:11 +0000

Yeah, I don’t understand feeling “energetic” without drinking eleventy billion cups of coffee a day — but as weird as it is, I’m going to keep doing it. (Doctor’s orders actually, I didn’t voluntarily quit the good stuff)

And Crystal, I understand completely. I didn’t *want* to quit.

By: MWT

MWT — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:49:12 +0000

Congrats on a successful decaffeination.

I found that after being off it for a while, I became a lot more sensitive. Half a can of Mello Yello is plenty if I really need a boost. Which I generally don’t bother with, except during Nanowrimo.

By: Crystal R. R. Edwards

Crystal R. R. Edwards — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:45:44 +0000

I’m giving up a major vice already. All other vices become, by default, virtues since they’ll keep me from losing my ever-lovin’ mind. I’ll put down the coffee when you pry my BAM out of my cold, dead hand.

By: Candy

Candy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:43:14 +0000

I quit drinking so much caffeine myself a while back (good for you!). I still have a soda now and then, but it’s rare. I feel SO much better. It’s weird… I’m like – well, awake, in the mornings and I don’t fall into bed exhausted. Well I do now, but that’s because I’m overworked and in a really foul mood overall LOL

By: Michelle K

Michelle K — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:39:27 +0000

Welcome to the club!

I have a cup of tea in the morning, and for the most part, that’s all the caffeine I have.

The nice thing is that if I need an extra burst of energy, a glass of iced tea will do me just fine.