If it's working for you- well, then hooray! Yay, you.

Seriously. I don't let myself drink alcohol :(* - because I fear it unmasks underlying feelings (not good ones)..coffee as well & I'd really have a big pity party & annoy all & sundry!

oh oops, scrambled synapses in the house (I plead waking up, too)...uh, Mmm. What I would do...is rustle up as many documents pro-java as poss. by next appointment.
Maybe just curtail it to one coffee in am or something? Surely that's not a huge deal? :( Good Luck! Your pdoc sounds like a wowser!

I tried the caffeine free route for a couple of months, but didn't really see any benefits. I went back to coffee just early in the morning and haven't noticed any problems. My caffeine intake is still pretty low though and it's all before 9am.

maybe that is the solution just the am coffee to get me going and then no caff after 6p.

i drink 2 cups of coffee in the morning and thats it, any more and i get too wired up

Remeber there is caffeine in moer than just coffee. I drink two cups of half and half coffee and use no other caffeine at all, well maybe on special occasion with chocolate. Maybe you are just at the turn right now and you need to wait it out a bit longer and try to get past it. Also be careful that you are not eating too much sugar especially before bed. Hugs

I have a cup of coffee in the morning and thats it... I drink caffeine free soda.. .but there are other things that have caffeine in them... personally one cup helps me alot.. anytime I go without its hard.. occasionally I will have a latte in the pm... I hope you get a balance ((hugs)) polar

I didn't even think about the chocolate!!!! I have a great weight but I eat chocolate poptarts as my midnight snack. but it seems nibbleing on fudge grahms during the day only makes me sleepeier. My sugar is good levels so I hope I can just over come the sluggeshness maybe I can lower some of my meds or change the time I take them too I see pdoc in a week and can look at some of this too

I'm a total caffeine addict. I drink an entire pot first thing in the morning but then I switch to decaf because it makes me "squirrely."

They'll...take...my...coffee...cup...only...from...my...cold...dead...fingers!!!!

Laugh, ok that's hyperbole. I'm not that much of an addict, or am I?

it is interesting to hear from some of these caffeine amateurs. when I say I quit I mean I quit 8liters + of mountain dew a day I still drink 8lieters of diet orange pop a day now just no caffeine in the orange pop. A pot of coffee I mean really My urine has more caffeine in it.

Just teasing thanks for the great comments.

I went to a seminar given by a psychitrist that specialized in anxiety disorders. He said the first thing he asked all patients was how much caffeine did they drink
I drink 2 first thing and then no more or I wouldnt sleep for at least a day
Big hug

just a few articles about aspartame.. the sweetner in the diet soda you drink. keep in mind most if not all the positive reviews of aspartame you can find have some sort of conflict of interest with the companies that make aspartame. alot of the good press is spin and pr put out by the companies. that being said i doubt that its as bad as some of these sites say i would assume the truth lay somewhere in the middle but maybe you are one of the many people who have an intolerance to aspartame.


http://www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/dangers.htm


Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA. Many of these reactions are very serious including seizures and death.(1) A few of the 90 different documented symptoms listed in the report as being caused by aspartame include: Headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, insomnia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss, and joint pain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvFRLIjOLOU&feature=related
http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/aspartame.htm
http://www.enotes.com/how-products-encyclopedia/aspartame

http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html