The people who say they need 3 cups of black coffee to start their day are just addicts with a high tolerance that experience mild withdrawal symptoms each morning.
If you feel like that, it’s your body crying for you to take a break.
If you like an occasional cup of coffee or energy drink to get through something, then that’s fine. But if you ever feel like one isn’t working like it used to, you should take a break from caffeine to reset your tolerance, not up the dosage like an addict.
May I ask what your symptopms are? As an avid coffe drinker myself I’d like to avoid that as much as possible - I try to limit my caffeine intake but coffe just tastes great to me for some reason and I don’t even know if it’s the caffeine or just the experience that gives me the puah I need to keep going at whatever it is I have.
Damn near a seizure. Visual flashes, muscle spasms, drooling. I genuinely thought I’d had a stroke the first time it happened. Took about six months of tests before the neurologist started asking about dietary possibilities.
During the process, he had me stop caffeine and a slew of other things, and it turned out my body wasn’t breaking it down right any more. It’s apparently not as rare as it should be, but it’s pretty fucking rare lol.
That sounds terrible. I’m sorry it happened to you. Is there any chance of the condition reversing?
Possibly, and the effect definitely decreases over time (so far, anyway). Could wish it would decrease enough that unexpected caffeine content didn’t set it off as hard, like espresso powder in brownies lol.
And it is dose dependent, along with being fairly easy to detect the first signs of it. Means it’s only the hidden doses that get me now. I don’t mind decaf at all since the market for it has reached some decent brands and even regionals like blue mountain can be had.