Caffeine thread

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I can’t function without having some caffeine. It helps with the negatives and makes me more present and alert.
Too much is not good, and can make me jittery and anxious, but I have a pretty high tolerance at this point.

Now like when I was on invega where having half a liter of Pepsi would render me sleepless.

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Caffeine is a nice legal drug, on zyprexa it was super stimulating to me, now on latuda it’s nice to combat the sedation. Tea caffeine affects me different than coffee caffeine tho.

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I just drink decaf. I think there’s about 5 mg per cup.

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Yeah decaf coffee and tea is good. I prefer decaf tea.

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drank 2 cups of tea, and 1 cup of coffee today, bout to have another coffee, want to be able to read without stopping for at least a few hours, i am too inconsistent with my hobbies

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I’m kicking my own self Ive been drinking caffeine. Not the end of the world but I would like to make it where to have less than 50mg.

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I gave up drinking coffee last week. The withdrawals were horrific and I needed pain killers for aches in my legs.

I’d love to be able to just have one or 2 cups a day but I was an addict and drank way too much.

I do feel tired now though but hopefully that will get better.

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You will get better. Caffeine is a tough one. I’m not totally letting it go. Yet. Good luck everhopeful.

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I’m drinking two or three cups of coffee in the morning. For each cup I put in three tea spoons of coffee powder and add milk, sugar or sweetener.

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I’ve started looking into this Mr. Balzac person a little. Interesting. He seems to have actually written a non-fiction work entitled “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee,” in which he talks about how to use coffee to enhance performance in some ways.

Thanks for mentioning him.

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Caffeine can be episode triggering in high quantities since it also disturbs your sleep patterns. My pdoc recommends 2 cups of coffee a day before 4pm.

I cheat sometime and drink 3 and sometimes I have a lot of diet coke but that’s neither here nor there I keep it pretty balanced.

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Be careful. A couple weeks ago I triggered a bad, near psychotic episode by taking too much caffeine. Drank a couple Monsters and then took 2 energy pills instead of 1.

Caffeine can trigger psychosis just like any other stimulant.

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I’m trying out my new iced coffee maker tomorrow. $25 on Amazon. We had to buy a bag of ice for it though.

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I intend to start my new program of coffee intake in about 5 minutes. I hope that I do not exceed about 400 mg of caffeine daily.

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I switched from 5 large cups of coffee to only decaf recently, it’s surprisingly easy on me

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I’m on my third cup of coffee for the day. Didn’t sleep great last night but gotta power through because I’m tired of missing important phone calls due to inopportune napping lol.

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I use coffee to prevent napping during the day and to wake up early. Without coffee at 7-8am I fall asleep again until 1pm.

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And oversleeping and napping gives me headaches.

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Oh God, I used to have oversleeping headaches when I was on Paliperidone. 12 Hours a night. Sometimes a bit more.

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