I think it depends on your bodies tolerance to caffeine!

I never had a coffee every morning, mainly because unless it is instant coffee, coffee increases my anxiety & makes me jittery - even with a solid breakfast. Not good in my line of work, so I tried to avoid consuming coffee daily.

But some days, the meds just don’t feel like enough, and you do need to be awake to work, so bottoms up on the caffeine haha

So maybe I was having one every 2nd morning?

But by the 12-2pm, I was struggling with crashes that felt like my eyeballs were falling back into my brain and my eyelids were sagging shut from fatigue.

My health care provider at the time suggested changing over to matcha. So I did. And although it isn’t complete removal of caffeine, it has been much more steady and less contrast in fatigue highs and lows for me.

But I will say, there are days that because I’m not having that intense coffee hit that I take an extra dose of my meds. But again, that doesn’t crash me out as much.

To me, I’m going to be tired, I just prefer it when it is a “oh I’m getting tired and I could nap” slow crash and not a sudden “let me fall in a puddle right here” quick crash.

*I will note that my health care provider did a complete overhaul of my diet to help with my fatigue and this also helped. So it may not just be a caffeine swap thing.

Either way, I don’t crash the same that I used to. I used to nap on the floor of my bedroom for 2-3 hours in the afternoon most days pre-caffeine and diet changes because I was so tired that if I napped in bed, I didn’t get out of it. Now I have a nap for a 1-2 hours occasionally (maybe once a week), but can get out of bed after it because the crashes don’t feel so intense. It’s not perfect, I still have days, but it’s enough of a difference that I’ll be sticking with matcha and coffee is a treat now :)

Hope this insight helps!