I make my wife a 20 oz. to-go coffee every morning, and she takes a coke to sip on after the coffee is gone. Her meds knock her out at night and make it VERY hard for her to wake up in the morning.

I've never smoked, I used to drink 12 or more cans of diet dew a day, now I've been off all caffiene for 6 months and I feel much better, caffiene is an addictive drug that will make you need it more and more. Of cource because of my changing work hours, my doctor has me taking trazodone so I can sleep atleast 6hr a night most nights.

It's funny, my wife who is not BP, has a 20oz pepsi and a 9oz coffee to start the day then grabs a huge starbucks from infront of her work before she goes in. And they say I'm drug dependant.

I'm not personally BP and I drink 2-3 cups of coffee from between 5am and 10am before switching to water for the rest of the day. With the exception of a Dr. Pepper at lunch. It would be unTexan not to have a Dr. Pepper at lunch.

I medicate w/ both and never really thought of it as medicating until I read your post. I drink a ton of diet Mountain dew and smoke too often. When I am not able to smoke I chew nicotine gum. I figure since I use to medicate w/ alcohol, pot, cocaine and hydro's I'm okay if I'm just drinking Mountain dew and chewing nicotine gum but then again what do I know, just trying to survive.

Maybe we have a cuppa cawfee because we like the taste of it? It doesn't necessarily mean we're medicating.

The bper in my life used to drink diet Pepsi all day long, and had anxiety attacks and rapid heartbeat long before the bp was diagnosed. She cut out caffeine completely, and the anxiety attacks got better, although not gone completely. I wonder if dropping caffeine may be a better method to control anxiety than the pills...?

I drink between 4 and 5 cups of coffee per day. I really, really need my first-thing-in-the-morning one....but if I really had to, I could probably cut out the others.

i can't touch caffeine it makes my anxiety soooooo bad

i quit caffiene as a part of my "get healthy" goal/resolution.

it sucks.

i quit smoking when i was pregnant... that sucked too.

but... i do feel better... just start my day off with a protien water.

woooohoooo! yum!!! :(

I need my coffee, if I get up in the morning and don't have it, I think why live?

I'm with you fairlight...

I am thoroughly addicted to coffee and black tea. I am absolutely not supposed to drink it for other health reasons. It gives me very painful spasms, and I drink it anyway. HELP! I've got to stop it, haven't been able to.

This has been going on for years and I'm afraid I'm doing bodily harm, I am sure I am!

This bipolar ______ is something else!

Love,
Eve

i used to keep metabolife and a bottle of water beside my bed...

so when my alarm went off i popped the pills and waited for them to kick in to get me out of bed....

then i started having major migrane and cluster headaches... after a spinal tap and three cat scans... my doc said to quit the caffiene.

it's helped

I tried switching to Decaf and for awhile it worked! But then before I knew it, I started drinking caffenated coffee again. I should try to go back to Decaf.