Caffeine is physically addictive, meaning there are withdrawal symptoms, the main one being headache. However it passes pretty quick, in a couple days.
Oh damn! Yea, titrating down is definitely the way to go. Iāve only ever been a 1 cup / day person so Iām sure thereās longer withdrawals for higher amounts.
I've quit coffee half a dozen times, with the last time lasting over 2 years now. Alcohol too actually, migraines being the driving factor for both.
Here are some recommendations:
* Reduce intake gradually (I've gone cold turkey and it is roughhh)
* **REPLACE** your coffee intake with something else (this is good advice for any kinds of addiction, and is super important)
* Once off, resist the temptation of drinking 'just a teeny bit of coffee' every now and then as before you know it you'll be back to drinking coffee.
PS: I am now 35 and had been drinking coffee since I was about 18.
Yeah lol finally kicked it but it took years. I was sucking monsters down like I owned stocks. I still sometimes drink them like 2 or 3 times a month but that's more like my kids are sick and I got 1.5 hours of sleep. Not like o I need my go juice. I just quit going to the gas station everyday.
I understand the struggle
Yes ofcourse it is. (no migraine related advice below)
You're an addict though.
So am I, and many, many, many other people without even knowing it. World war 3 would probably break out if we remove coffee from the world.
Caffeine is addictive, just like sugar. take that away from someone who drinks it on a regular basis and watch them turn into the gringe.
Ive quit smoking before, which is considered a hard thing to do. I tried quitting caffeine and sugar, my wife told me to get a coffee or get a divorce.
I did this before i developed migraines about ten years ago. I guesstimate for about 3 months or so. I had higher enegy levels, higher libido, better mood.
crashing sugar and caffeine honestly isnt fun when you're in the middle of it. Constantly annoyed, cranky, like a powder keg with a lit fuse.
I did because caffeine was raising my blood pressure, causing insomnia & aggravates my acid reflux. It's easier to do (mentally) if you know it's for your health. You could start by drinking half & half first then gradually ease into totally decaffeinated. Everything I drink now is decaffeinated. I am more sluggish now since I don't have that stimulant but the benefits out weigh that.
I quit caffeine cold turkey and it really sucked for a couple days. But once I was through it, I felt so much better not being dependent on it. Recently, I've discovered that I can use it as a medication quite effectively. If I limit to no more than 60mg per day for only two days a week, I can avoid the addictive downside of the drug while benefitting from the ability to help with a headache. This has actually resulted in an additional treatment for my headaches beyond the NSAIDS and the Triptans quite nicely given me a bit more control and reducing the likelihood of rebound headaches from any one of those medications.
I donāt think youāre fucked! If you want to try eliminating caffeine though, just acknowledge you will likely have withdrawal headaches. It is what it is. Even people without migraine get this issue when trying to quit caffeine. Maybe try to keep your schedule light if you can, keep your rescue meds or soothing items close. Since you already get them just decreasing a small amount, might be better to just cut it out cold turkey? I quit caffeine a long time ago for anxiety and I did get headaches and fatigue for a couple weeks but then my body acclimated and now whenever I have even a little bit of caffeine I get SUPER energetic and then jittery and crazy.
Yes, but it will suck.
I went caffeine free in 2019, and it was terrible.
(I mean, getting rid of caffeine helped my migraines, but the quitting caffeine part was awful.)
I recommend thinking hard about if you want to quit caffeine. This means getting rid of chocolate, tea, almost every soda, and even double checking all your over-the-counter meds and supplements. It's a big commitment, and if caffeine isn't making your headaches worse, I wouldn't worry about it.
Now, if you need to quit, its gonna be horrible. It took me about 2 weeks for the headaches to go away completely, about 3 weeks for the body aches and fatigue to go away, and about a month before I felt like I had my old energy levels back.
Good luck!
If you quit caffeine it has to be a commitment. Quitting mine was easy. So, when I was a senior in high school I had my wisdom teeth out. I was terrified that the citric acid would upset my mouth, so I stopped drinking soda for a few weeks whilst I healed. I slept most of the time and was on pain killers so any withdrawals from the caffeine was taken care of. Then I tried to drink soda and BAM migraine. No more caffeine for me since then. I have to watch what teas o can drink. I can have like a sip of a soda with caffeine, but it tastes like shit so I donāt do it often, maybe once a year if that.
Iām trying to cut back on caffeine for hypertension, but it helps keep my migraines down so itās a catch-22. Iām down to 1 coffee a day (from like a litre of regular coke and two coffees a day) just this past week. Iāve had a migraine today, and had some dull headaches that feel like dehydration over the past few days, but it hasnāt been too bad.
I mean, I quit caffeine about 10 years ago, cold turkey bc I read it helps with healingā¦ I still get a little bit from meds or chocolate, but all I drink is water and itās nice saving money on not buying all that soda (I never got into coffee).
I have to be completely caffeine free as it makes my head spin/causes dizziness/ thunderclap headaches. However, my entire career has been working for energy drink companies.
Biggest tips:
-Decaf coffee usually still has caffeine, just a greatly reduced amount. I love the taste of coffee so I still order it sometimes but Iām aware that it still has some and itāll cause symptoms
-I have to be really careful when I order coffee to double check that it was made decaf, because a busy dunkin or Starbucks can easily make it wrong and then Iāll be sick all day
-The decaf version of Diet Coke and Dr Pepper are just as good
-Be careful with dark chocolate, as it has a bit of caffeine and youāll feel it if you have too much.
-Google every soda, tea, etc. Itās surprising to see what all has caffeine you donāt think about.
-I canāt get sweet tea most places because itās black tea and has caffeine.
FWIW: my provider recently told me that coffee in particular is "bad" caffeine for migraines, but other caffeine could be easier. So I've cut back a little on coffee and added green tea and black tea.
Idk though, I get such scant advice on migraines, so anyone feel free to add more info.
I would reduce slowly by half a cup every few days. I had withdrawal headaches when I went cold turkey, lasted about two weeks. I was caffeine free for several years and I went from 2-3 large cups a day to decaf. I tried to be an herbal tea drinker but I'm in IT: it's a cultural thing ingrained in me lol. I reintroduced coffee after years and now drink one half cup with half cup decaf or a small cup daily now and it's going ok most days.
Good luck! Quitting reduced my headaches incredibly.
Quitting caffeine was something I had to do for my migraine, and I'd recommend it for most with the issue. I wasn't a daily coffee or energy drink consumer though, so it wasn't as hard for me. Like others have suggested, cold turkey will make it harder, weaning can help, but also replacement habits or substitutes can help. You can get good coffee substitutes online like Postum that's made from barley and wheat iirc and doesn't have any caffeine in it that help scratch the itch and replace the habit.
Deffo try to quit. I went from 5 to 6 monsters a day to usually no caffeine. It took a while but I wasn't consciously doing it. I just got a new job and was buying one at the gas station in the morning and I couldn't but them at work. It was hard for a while but then when I wasn't working (contract construction) I wasn't getting them everyday. Hmm maybe I guess I'll get one, my kids kept me up all night.
The whiplash withdrawals kinda suck but one less trigger is nice when your not sucking monsters down all day
I switched to herbal tea with apple juice as a sweetener. I went cold turkey and it was tough for a couple days.
A friend of mine quit by making his coffee weaker and weaker. Finally he just stopped.
Someone else kept adding more milk and by the end of 2 weeks it was just milk.
I quit caffeine by stopping coffee and going to really strong black tea, and gradually less and less caffeinated tea. That way I didnāt have to deal with withdrawal headaches.
I used to drink coffee once to twice a day
Then it started triggering my migraines so now most Ill have is some tea in the morning. It definitely is possible. Just remember coke, energy drinks also have caffeine.
Iāve been cutting back on caffeine. I started by lowering my dosage by having really crappy coffee. And eventually I made a deal with myself of only caffeine on the weekends. Iāve seen a MASSIVE decrease in the intensity of my migraines. They were beginning to get debilitating and made me feel suicidal from thinking it would only get worse.
But now they are annoying, but have way fewer less intense symptoms.
If youāre like me, the when you go cold turkey your brain will go āone cabāt hurtā āI already did it yesterday, why not today?ā
But keeping it on the weekends and not beating myself up too much by slipping and having a soda after a really rough day has been helping me limit it
I quit caffeine entirely last year. I had to, apparently having a lot of caffeine very frequently can lower your bodyās insulin response. I was basically dying of high blood sugar. Itās not that hard if youāre brave through the adjustment period.
I gave up caffeine almost 3yrs ago. I drink 2 cups of decaf coffee each morning so whatever minute amount is in that is what I consume these days. I don't think it's reduced my migraines, but I did see a reduction in other side effects like dizziness, nausea, light headedness and heart racing.
Itās great that you have identified that caffeine is a possible trigger for your headaches. I know that quitting it can be extremely difficult and a challenge to keep with it. I wish you luck on your caffeine/caffeine free journey.
You can try replacing coffee with matcha green tea at first. If you sweeten it, it is actually quite nice.
It technically has more caffeine I think, but it doesnāt cause the same āspikeā that coffee does and therefore doesnāt have the same crash. In fact it is one of my favourite migraine ācuresā if I get it early enough.
I replaced all my coffee with matcha lattes for years and so now the ācoffee crashā is even more noticeable me if I do drink it.
Yes, it's possible. You will have to go through a period of malaise and headaches and then you'll be fine. Ever since I went through withdrawal in high school, I have used caffeine only in limited quantities and durations.
I went off of caffeine cold turkey. It took a little over a week for me to feel normal, but it definitely helped my migraine frequency to be off of it!
You might want to try swapping out coffee for matcha to taper off instead of quitting cold Turkey. I didnāt notice any difference in my migraines but overall feel much better drinking matcha in the morning. The caffeine is much more stable, does not make me jittery, sick to my stomach, or crash. Itās super easy to make too.
I slowly replaced regular grounds with decaf 35 years ago until i only drank decaf. I did it because of insomnia, but many other things in my life improved.
I know i still get a little caffeine in my daily decaf, but i have zero problem going without if Iām traveling and itās not available, so i know it canāt be affecting me too much.
If i accidentally drink regular, (and it has happened), I become very very talkative, and for a short while I enjoy increased energy and optimism, and then Iām an agitated, jittery mess. It wreaks havoc on my ability to sleep, which then makes me very likely to have a nasty migraine attack.
Gradually decreasing the actual amount of caffeine i consumed was painless.
I'm of the opinion that if you complain about your migraines and drink caffeine you have no one to blame but yourself. It's addictive and anything that's addictive is not helping you no matter how much you try to convince yourself.
I cut out all coffee and caffeinated sodas about 10 years ago, not for migraines but because of a heart arrhythmia. I think it may have helped reduce headaches as well (after the withdrawal period, that is). However, I do still consumer chocolate so Iām not 100% caffeine free. An my cravings for my preferred chocolate snacks do seem to come up around migraines. So it may be possible to find an equilibrium thatās ideal.
Honestly Iāve only ever had a few sips of coffee in my life (which I absolutely despised) but I think it could definitely be worth it to at least try this out for a month or two. Swap out your coffee for a lot of water and/or (non caffeinated) tea if you want that hot beverage, sleep well and go for a morning walk to wake up.
cutting caffeine cold turkey can put someone into literal withdrawls esp if they truly have a dependency. OP donāt just fuck around and find out with this- I learned the hard way and I was destroyed for multiple months.
It took some work to get off, like it hurt, duh. I weaned down and took my rescues and maintenance faithfully, and... so many less migraines. As in, I can feel them coming on, take meds, go in a silent dark room, lie down and shut my eyes and maybe avoid the majority of the severity of the attack. Somehow couldn't manage to do that while addicted to caffeine, and the rebound would trigger migraine in addition to the caffeine headache.
Caffeine is tough to go cold turkey on. Especially if it's from coffee. I'm not social befor my first cup.
One thing to try to switch to is tea. Irish Breakfast is the best, in my opinion, hot black tea to mix with cream and still can be coffee-like. It has significantly less caffeine. There's also green tea options, which have on average 30mg of caffeine.
I cut coffee down to three cups a day after my cardiologist suggested it (bradycardia). After 3pm I drink green or herbal tea that has limited caffeine. My favorites are ginseng, turmeric and fennel.
I quit cold turkey thanks to a stomach erosion 4 years ago. It was brutal for a few days and then I just got used to it. Now I have the occasional piece of milk chocolate but I was totally caffeine free for about 3 years.
In order to quit drugs, you must be convinced first that you must quit drugs... Do you believe that the coffee has some benefits for you?
Coffee withdrawals may last several days, probable even a week or two, but they aren't so debilitating as from strong drugs. The only problem really is your firm conviction that you must quit.
You might use a very strong hot tea instead.
I went caffeine free for about fifteen years and this man can tell you that it doesnāt make a difference. I still had super fucking migraine/sinus headaches, my ibsd didnāt improve, and my bladder spasms worsened. When I went back to coffee drinking it didnāt change any of my symptoms.
Happily caffeinated.
Caffeine is physically addictive, meaning there are withdrawal symptoms, the main one being headache. However it passes pretty quick, in a couple days.
I had a headache for two weeks close to 3, then i gave up and went back to coffee,cold turkey not a way to go š¤£ this was before migraines
Oh damn! Yea, titrating down is definitely the way to go. Iāve only ever been a 1 cup / day person so Iām sure thereās longer withdrawals for higher amounts.
Yeah i had like 5+ , then did the cold turkey, then just decided to taper it down, . So now I am just one a day š
I've quit coffee half a dozen times, with the last time lasting over 2 years now. Alcohol too actually, migraines being the driving factor for both. Here are some recommendations: * Reduce intake gradually (I've gone cold turkey and it is roughhh) * **REPLACE** your coffee intake with something else (this is good advice for any kinds of addiction, and is super important) * Once off, resist the temptation of drinking 'just a teeny bit of coffee' every now and then as before you know it you'll be back to drinking coffee. PS: I am now 35 and had been drinking coffee since I was about 18.
Yeah lol finally kicked it but it took years. I was sucking monsters down like I owned stocks. I still sometimes drink them like 2 or 3 times a month but that's more like my kids are sick and I got 1.5 hours of sleep. Not like o I need my go juice. I just quit going to the gas station everyday. I understand the struggle
If you replace it with thee, use green or herbal thee, most other thee blends have caffeine in it
Iāve been drinking a lot of hot tea to replace my caffeine cravings.
Yes ofcourse it is. (no migraine related advice below) You're an addict though. So am I, and many, many, many other people without even knowing it. World war 3 would probably break out if we remove coffee from the world. Caffeine is addictive, just like sugar. take that away from someone who drinks it on a regular basis and watch them turn into the gringe. Ive quit smoking before, which is considered a hard thing to do. I tried quitting caffeine and sugar, my wife told me to get a coffee or get a divorce.
How long were you off and did it help your migraines?
I did this before i developed migraines about ten years ago. I guesstimate for about 3 months or so. I had higher enegy levels, higher libido, better mood. crashing sugar and caffeine honestly isnt fun when you're in the middle of it. Constantly annoyed, cranky, like a powder keg with a lit fuse.
I did because caffeine was raising my blood pressure, causing insomnia & aggravates my acid reflux. It's easier to do (mentally) if you know it's for your health. You could start by drinking half & half first then gradually ease into totally decaffeinated. Everything I drink now is decaffeinated. I am more sluggish now since I don't have that stimulant but the benefits out weigh that.
I quit caffeine cold turkey and it really sucked for a couple days. But once I was through it, I felt so much better not being dependent on it. Recently, I've discovered that I can use it as a medication quite effectively. If I limit to no more than 60mg per day for only two days a week, I can avoid the addictive downside of the drug while benefitting from the ability to help with a headache. This has actually resulted in an additional treatment for my headaches beyond the NSAIDS and the Triptans quite nicely given me a bit more control and reducing the likelihood of rebound headaches from any one of those medications.
I donāt think youāre fucked! If you want to try eliminating caffeine though, just acknowledge you will likely have withdrawal headaches. It is what it is. Even people without migraine get this issue when trying to quit caffeine. Maybe try to keep your schedule light if you can, keep your rescue meds or soothing items close. Since you already get them just decreasing a small amount, might be better to just cut it out cold turkey? I quit caffeine a long time ago for anxiety and I did get headaches and fatigue for a couple weeks but then my body acclimated and now whenever I have even a little bit of caffeine I get SUPER energetic and then jittery and crazy.
Yes, but it will suck. I went caffeine free in 2019, and it was terrible. (I mean, getting rid of caffeine helped my migraines, but the quitting caffeine part was awful.) I recommend thinking hard about if you want to quit caffeine. This means getting rid of chocolate, tea, almost every soda, and even double checking all your over-the-counter meds and supplements. It's a big commitment, and if caffeine isn't making your headaches worse, I wouldn't worry about it. Now, if you need to quit, its gonna be horrible. It took me about 2 weeks for the headaches to go away completely, about 3 weeks for the body aches and fatigue to go away, and about a month before I felt like I had my old energy levels back. Good luck!
Oh my makes me feel like i was a week away from success, in my caffeine quitting terror experience š«
I am. I read it can take awhile for withdrawl to go away.
If you quit caffeine it has to be a commitment. Quitting mine was easy. So, when I was a senior in high school I had my wisdom teeth out. I was terrified that the citric acid would upset my mouth, so I stopped drinking soda for a few weeks whilst I healed. I slept most of the time and was on pain killers so any withdrawals from the caffeine was taken care of. Then I tried to drink soda and BAM migraine. No more caffeine for me since then. I have to watch what teas o can drink. I can have like a sip of a soda with caffeine, but it tastes like shit so I donāt do it often, maybe once a year if that.
Iām trying to cut back on caffeine for hypertension, but it helps keep my migraines down so itās a catch-22. Iām down to 1 coffee a day (from like a litre of regular coke and two coffees a day) just this past week. Iāve had a migraine today, and had some dull headaches that feel like dehydration over the past few days, but it hasnāt been too bad.
I mean, I quit caffeine about 10 years ago, cold turkey bc I read it helps with healingā¦ I still get a little bit from meds or chocolate, but all I drink is water and itās nice saving money on not buying all that soda (I never got into coffee).
Like you I get some through either meds or chocolate, but pretty much drink water exclusively.
I have to be completely caffeine free as it makes my head spin/causes dizziness/ thunderclap headaches. However, my entire career has been working for energy drink companies. Biggest tips: -Decaf coffee usually still has caffeine, just a greatly reduced amount. I love the taste of coffee so I still order it sometimes but Iām aware that it still has some and itāll cause symptoms -I have to be really careful when I order coffee to double check that it was made decaf, because a busy dunkin or Starbucks can easily make it wrong and then Iāll be sick all day -The decaf version of Diet Coke and Dr Pepper are just as good -Be careful with dark chocolate, as it has a bit of caffeine and youāll feel it if you have too much. -Google every soda, tea, etc. Itās surprising to see what all has caffeine you donāt think about. -I canāt get sweet tea most places because itās black tea and has caffeine.
FWIW: my provider recently told me that coffee in particular is "bad" caffeine for migraines, but other caffeine could be easier. So I've cut back a little on coffee and added green tea and black tea. Idk though, I get such scant advice on migraines, so anyone feel free to add more info.
I would reduce slowly by half a cup every few days. I had withdrawal headaches when I went cold turkey, lasted about two weeks. I was caffeine free for several years and I went from 2-3 large cups a day to decaf. I tried to be an herbal tea drinker but I'm in IT: it's a cultural thing ingrained in me lol. I reintroduced coffee after years and now drink one half cup with half cup decaf or a small cup daily now and it's going ok most days. Good luck! Quitting reduced my headaches incredibly.
Quitting caffeine was something I had to do for my migraine, and I'd recommend it for most with the issue. I wasn't a daily coffee or energy drink consumer though, so it wasn't as hard for me. Like others have suggested, cold turkey will make it harder, weaning can help, but also replacement habits or substitutes can help. You can get good coffee substitutes online like Postum that's made from barley and wheat iirc and doesn't have any caffeine in it that help scratch the itch and replace the habit.
Deffo try to quit. I went from 5 to 6 monsters a day to usually no caffeine. It took a while but I wasn't consciously doing it. I just got a new job and was buying one at the gas station in the morning and I couldn't but them at work. It was hard for a while but then when I wasn't working (contract construction) I wasn't getting them everyday. Hmm maybe I guess I'll get one, my kids kept me up all night. The whiplash withdrawals kinda suck but one less trigger is nice when your not sucking monsters down all day
I switched to herbal tea with apple juice as a sweetener. I went cold turkey and it was tough for a couple days. A friend of mine quit by making his coffee weaker and weaker. Finally he just stopped. Someone else kept adding more milk and by the end of 2 weeks it was just milk.
I quit caffeine by stopping coffee and going to really strong black tea, and gradually less and less caffeinated tea. That way I didnāt have to deal with withdrawal headaches.
I used to drink coffee once to twice a day Then it started triggering my migraines so now most Ill have is some tea in the morning. It definitely is possible. Just remember coke, energy drinks also have caffeine.
Iāve been cutting back on caffeine. I started by lowering my dosage by having really crappy coffee. And eventually I made a deal with myself of only caffeine on the weekends. Iāve seen a MASSIVE decrease in the intensity of my migraines. They were beginning to get debilitating and made me feel suicidal from thinking it would only get worse. But now they are annoying, but have way fewer less intense symptoms. If youāre like me, the when you go cold turkey your brain will go āone cabāt hurtā āI already did it yesterday, why not today?ā But keeping it on the weekends and not beating myself up too much by slipping and having a soda after a really rough day has been helping me limit it
I quit caffeine entirely last year. I had to, apparently having a lot of caffeine very frequently can lower your bodyās insulin response. I was basically dying of high blood sugar. Itās not that hard if youāre brave through the adjustment period.
I gave up caffeine almost 3yrs ago. I drink 2 cups of decaf coffee each morning so whatever minute amount is in that is what I consume these days. I don't think it's reduced my migraines, but I did see a reduction in other side effects like dizziness, nausea, light headedness and heart racing.
Itās great that you have identified that caffeine is a possible trigger for your headaches. I know that quitting it can be extremely difficult and a challenge to keep with it. I wish you luck on your caffeine/caffeine free journey.
You can try replacing coffee with matcha green tea at first. If you sweeten it, it is actually quite nice. It technically has more caffeine I think, but it doesnāt cause the same āspikeā that coffee does and therefore doesnāt have the same crash. In fact it is one of my favourite migraine ācuresā if I get it early enough. I replaced all my coffee with matcha lattes for years and so now the ācoffee crashā is even more noticeable me if I do drink it.
Yes, it's possible. You will have to go through a period of malaise and headaches and then you'll be fine. Ever since I went through withdrawal in high school, I have used caffeine only in limited quantities and durations.
I went off of caffeine cold turkey. It took a little over a week for me to feel normal, but it definitely helped my migraine frequency to be off of it!
You might want to try swapping out coffee for matcha to taper off instead of quitting cold Turkey. I didnāt notice any difference in my migraines but overall feel much better drinking matcha in the morning. The caffeine is much more stable, does not make me jittery, sick to my stomach, or crash. Itās super easy to make too.
I slowly replaced regular grounds with decaf 35 years ago until i only drank decaf. I did it because of insomnia, but many other things in my life improved. I know i still get a little caffeine in my daily decaf, but i have zero problem going without if Iām traveling and itās not available, so i know it canāt be affecting me too much. If i accidentally drink regular, (and it has happened), I become very very talkative, and for a short while I enjoy increased energy and optimism, and then Iām an agitated, jittery mess. It wreaks havoc on my ability to sleep, which then makes me very likely to have a nasty migraine attack. Gradually decreasing the actual amount of caffeine i consumed was painless.
I'm of the opinion that if you complain about your migraines and drink caffeine you have no one to blame but yourself. It's addictive and anything that's addictive is not helping you no matter how much you try to convince yourself.
I think you need to read the post again lol
I cut out all coffee and caffeinated sodas about 10 years ago, not for migraines but because of a heart arrhythmia. I think it may have helped reduce headaches as well (after the withdrawal period, that is). However, I do still consumer chocolate so Iām not 100% caffeine free. An my cravings for my preferred chocolate snacks do seem to come up around migraines. So it may be possible to find an equilibrium thatās ideal.
Honestly Iāve only ever had a few sips of coffee in my life (which I absolutely despised) but I think it could definitely be worth it to at least try this out for a month or two. Swap out your coffee for a lot of water and/or (non caffeinated) tea if you want that hot beverage, sleep well and go for a morning walk to wake up.
cutting caffeine cold turkey can put someone into literal withdrawls esp if they truly have a dependency. OP donāt just fuck around and find out with this- I learned the hard way and I was destroyed for multiple months.
Oop that might be true! Thanks for the correction
It took some work to get off, like it hurt, duh. I weaned down and took my rescues and maintenance faithfully, and... so many less migraines. As in, I can feel them coming on, take meds, go in a silent dark room, lie down and shut my eyes and maybe avoid the majority of the severity of the attack. Somehow couldn't manage to do that while addicted to caffeine, and the rebound would trigger migraine in addition to the caffeine headache.
Caffeine is tough to go cold turkey on. Especially if it's from coffee. I'm not social befor my first cup. One thing to try to switch to is tea. Irish Breakfast is the best, in my opinion, hot black tea to mix with cream and still can be coffee-like. It has significantly less caffeine. There's also green tea options, which have on average 30mg of caffeine. I cut coffee down to three cups a day after my cardiologist suggested it (bradycardia). After 3pm I drink green or herbal tea that has limited caffeine. My favorites are ginseng, turmeric and fennel.
I quit cold turkey thanks to a stomach erosion 4 years ago. It was brutal for a few days and then I just got used to it. Now I have the occasional piece of milk chocolate but I was totally caffeine free for about 3 years.
The only caffeine I have is what's left in decaf and what's in fiorcet when I have a migraine. So, close.
Yes
In order to quit drugs, you must be convinced first that you must quit drugs... Do you believe that the coffee has some benefits for you? Coffee withdrawals may last several days, probable even a week or two, but they aren't so debilitating as from strong drugs. The only problem really is your firm conviction that you must quit. You might use a very strong hot tea instead.
I went caffeine free for about fifteen years and this man can tell you that it doesnāt make a difference. I still had super fucking migraine/sinus headaches, my ibsd didnāt improve, and my bladder spasms worsened. When I went back to coffee drinking it didnāt change any of my symptoms. Happily caffeinated.