It also takes into account my habitual need for caffeine and inability to schedule that inconvenient and painful 2 -
day caffeine withdrawal headache.
Not exact matches
I don't drink coffee regularly because I hate the feeling of being dependent on
caffeine to function in the morning (there was a dark time in my life when I was fully addicted to coffee for a solid month and had to endure splitting
withdrawal headaches for two
days to break the habit), but I do enjoy a nice iced coffee here and there.
Drinking juice every
day was anything but a chore, and neither of us had
caffeine withdrawal headaches!
Most symptoms will not last longer than a few
days, and for coffee drinkers,
caffeine -
withdrawal headaches will usually clear in the first week.
I see people that drink 3 - 4 cups per
day that get a massive
headache if they don't have their daily coffee due to
caffeine withdrawal.
In fact, Largeman - Roth says people who drink more than 400 mg of
caffeine a
day (the equivalent of five 8 - ounce cups of coffee) are more likely to experience
withdrawal symptoms like
headaches and irritability.
For the rest of the
day, I didn't feel overly tired or experience
headaches or other typical
caffeine withdrawal side effects.
The
caffeine withdrawal from our regular drinking of black tea was brutal,
headaches for three of four
days.
Subjects who drank more than the equivalent of 2 cups of coffee per
day (300 mg of
caffeine per
day) were also excluded, as were subjects who experienced
caffeine withdrawal symptoms (such as irritability, flushing, or
headache) temporally associated with
caffeine ingestion.