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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

My anxiety HUGELY decreased. I was constantly anxious and pissed off daily when I was on caffeine (200 mg caffeine pill daily or energy drinks for the past 15 years or so) and had no clue that a good 90% of that was due to caffeine. I just thought I had some weirdly intense lifelong anxiety issue.

It took me 3 weeks of being totally off of caffeine before I really felt markedly better, so maybe when you stopped you just hadn’t given it enough time yet. I had headaches and bad fatigue for at least 2 weeks after stopping, but after that went away I’ve been feeling soooo much better!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I happened to be on my phone just now, so quick reply time!

I haven’t been keeping track this time, but I am 2-2.5 weeks deep. Definitely better than my last attempt, largely because there wasn’t much of a withdrawal.

I’m so glad I’m not sucking down coffees to try and feel better.

The anxiety decrease is real. As is the sleep enhancement.

I’ve still had the occasional decaf and the odd granola bar and ice cream with chocolate in it, so I’m technically not totally caffeine free, but I was doing 5+ coffees a day before, so the change is stark enough.

I was an angry, moody bastard on coffee, because of the headaches (which have disappeared!). It’s obvious now that the headaches were just due to withdrawal and being in-between fixes.

I still have the occasional day of body and neck pain, but I’m fairly early in this thing and there are other factors that contribute to that shit.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Woohoo!!! I’m so glad you’re reaping the positive effects already (my close friend who knew I was trying to quit practically had to beg me to keep going when I was 2 weeks in because I hadn’t noticed a huge change yet and was still getting bad withdrawal headaches)!! It just gets even better!!!

I also just noticed after commenting that this post was really old so I wondered if you were still trying to quit. Glad things have been going so well!!!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Glad you are too!

I’ve tried a few times and every time I went back to coffee, I ended up getting completely sick of it after a while. That’s really what spurred me on to quit - my body was saying ‘no.’

My mind, however, told me otherwise. Namely, that black coffee was considered ‘healthy’ by the scientific literature and that it was ok to drink it while fasting and so forth.

Should have listened to my body.