How did you feel when you gave up caffeine?

I had headaches. I decided rather than take pain killers I would try half-caf for a week or so. The headaches went away.
Now I can take coffee or leave it – and often do. I try not to do anything consistently.

Very tired and uninspired. Very difficult to get started in the morning and I needed naps in the afternoon. But no headaches. It took about nine days before I normalized. LG above has a good policy: don’t do any substances consistently. Do them strategically.

When I gave up coffee I did miss the warm aroma wafting out of the coffee cup in my lap in the morning. To combat the tiredness I feel when I wake up, I would stand and do twists while my arms dangled loosely. Then I fold my fingers flat against my palm and pound pat my fists all over my body for a minute. Then hit the floor and do a few push ups and crunches to really get the blood flowing. Then I would get a cup of very warm water and squeeze ¼ fresh lemon juice into the water and sip it while watching the news. The lemon juice is a major stimulant to our digestive tract and that in itself will help wake you up. Good luck.

I haven’t given up on coffee yet. I usually drink it in the mornings and hardly ever after 11 a.m. But when I go two or three days without any after an extended time drinking it I do get a headache. I have taken meds for the headache and continued without coffee for several days without further incident.

I also found out by experimentation that if I increase my water intake when I stop drinking coffee I do not get the subsequent headache.

@Stinley – did you stop cold turkey? When I stopped caffeine (mostly from coffee) I went from 5 cups a day to three and eventually to one. (and then quit altogether).

Doing it all at once may have been a mistake. Weaning yourself off would have been better.

Give up caffeine?

Hahahaha.
Hahahahahahahaha.
BWA HAHAHAHA

:: breathes ::::

Ah hahahahahahahaha…

No.

I gave up coffee and tea when I found I had a sensitivity to them. They would cause my already ridiculously slow heartbeat to skip, which was causing me to pass out.

Coffee & me…“Never gonna give you up…”
Fuckity fuck fuck, that bastard song will be in my head for the rest of the bloody day now!!

I would have withdrawal symptoms when I didn’t have drip coffee on a regular basis. But I don’t drink drip coffee anymore – I have a cup of espresso most mornings, which I find is much, much more pleasant to deal with. I don’t get withdrawal when I skip it, and it doesn’t make me tired + edgy, which drip coffee always did.

But I find these things vary widely from person to person.

For some reason I never developed a coffee habit, and from what I see about me, I figure I must have saved a small fortune. The wife (and every woman I’ve ever been involved with) had both a coffee every morning habit as well as a cigarette addiction. There are times if I’m confined to the house that I go on tea binges, but I’m not addicted to black teas. No caffeine headaches. When I read this question, my reaction was pretty much expressed by @Seek. Good luck finding allies with that!

I did go cold turkey. Seemed like a good idea at the time. I have heart palpitations which are caused by stress and caffeine. So I thought I would do something about the caffeine and work on the stress. I also have low blood pressure naturally but caffeine makes it worse so I get dizzy when I stand up sometimes.

I’m with @Seek, to hell with that.
I have been stout coffee fiend since I was a preteen.

“Never gonna let you down, never gonna run around & hurt you”
I refuse to suffer alone

I actually enjoy the taste of good coffee. Why would I give up something I enjoy? Particularly since I have no other vices.

@ucme – I’m one of the three people in the world that legitimately likes that song.

Haha, I quite liked it when it first came out, but quickly grew tired of it.
Crazy thing is, I still know all the fucking words :(

Tired.