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Coffee makes me sleepy.....

DivineSilence
DivineSilence
I just figured this out in the last few days but for the last month or so coffee has put me to sleep. I don't even drink it anymore to wake me up but because if I forget it I have blinding headaches. But now my son is making fun of me because I get up in the morning feeling ok, have 2 cups of coffee and promptly fall asleep for 2 hours..... If I drink iced tea ion the afternoon, same thing.... nap time. Anyone heard of this being a side effect of medication? The Lithiun and the Latuda are fairly new. I never noticed a definitely pick me up but it never made me sleep before....... I'll give up the coffee if I must.
tommymott
tommymott
I don't think it has to do with medication, maybe just your body's adaptation over time. I can tell you that lithium has never affected my coffee drinking but that's useless information since we all react to meds and coffee differently anyway. Caffeine is potent in itself.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hmm I'm one of those that never have had an up.ing effect from caffeine - I get abstinence symptoms if I go without and I calm down when I do drink it (as in I'd even sleep better if I take a cup of coffee before bed than if I hadn't). But on the other hand it's always been like that for me (started drinking coffee at 15, now 20) and lithium haven't affected that for me. As the person above said though we do work differently and things have different effect on all of us.
GinaWonders
GinaWonders
Our body changes all the time - something might be outta whack (LOL what a surprise) and next month, maybe it will perk you again!

I like my daily pot - and avoid the headache at all cost! But doesn't always "help or wake me"
Tazmom09
Tazmom09
My pdoc told me that they sometimes see this in folks who might have some ADD thing going on (i guess the paradoxical stimulant effect), because i have the same reactions. but it's not consistent, so obviously it's interacting with something else.

in other words, Gina is right (as usual): our bodies are pretty often "outta whack"!
deleted_user
deleted_user
I used to drink eighteen pints of coffee a day, it started to make me sleep as well. I know this is an extreme example but caffiene can be used to make sleeping tablets.
I am now allergic to caffiene so much that if I have a can of coke I bounce off the walls for six hours then collapse for twenty four hours.
so just stop coffee, I drink red bush tea now, it tastes good with sugar or honey. Beleaive me after a while you dont need that caffiene boost that I MISS like a fish misses water, or it would if siddenly found itself hot air balloning with a gibbon called colin.
Community LeaderSunCloudJD
SunCloudJD
It is GREAT to see ya Sniffbat!!

My ex used to have that same effect from it.... It always calmed him down..

I'd never wake up without it...x
Community LeaderSunCloudJD
SunCloudJD
some info on getting sleepy from caffeine

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/06/11/coffee-makes-you-sleepy-nutritionist-explains-the-surprising-truth-about-caffeine/
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