I wonder how much coffee people with schizophrenia should take coffee without replase. I like to take coffee in the morning. And I usually take 2 cups of coffee without sugar. But before 5 years ago, I took 4 or 5 cups of coffee. And I had 2 relpase before. But I don’ t know it was because of coffee or stress. And I want your opinions about coffee. I think coffee is something negative and positive for people with schizophrenia. I feel offee is reducing negative symptoms and good for cognition. And it cause positive symptom. How about you ?
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I think it tends to eventually make me more tired, I have about 2-3 cups a day.
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It increases my anxiety. And makes me more likely to get paranoid. I drink one cup in the morning with sugar and milk. Anymore than one and i start to feel really nervous.
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I have ruled out coffee and tea because of the caffeine. Drinking either of these induced crippling anxiety.
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Coffee has triggered psychosis and relapse in me before, even at 1-2 cups. I’m avoiding caffeine alltogether now, except chocolate which only contains a little. I drink decaf coffee 1-2 cups a day instead.
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I had to give up coffee completely, it increased my anxiety and made my symptoms worse.
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I try to keep it to a cup per day per doctor’s advice. Heart issues are the reason here.
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Without Invega, coffee makes me anxious and jittery.
But on Invega I can drink about 3 - 5 cups no problem.
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When I’m not well mentally I abstain from drinking coffee because it makes me more anxious.
But normally I have two double strength coffees every day. I think over time your body gets more and more tolerant to it and it stops being as effective though.
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I’m also on Invega and drink coffee all day long. No prob.
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I drink 2 cups early in the morning and 1 cup of coffee just before I work out in the early to mid afternoon
The only thing it does for me is increase manic symptoms if i am already manic. I havent noticedmuch anxiety or paranoia with caffeine but ive been consuming caffeine my entire life and coffee and tea re my favorites
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Not at all
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Don’t develop that app!
(Nice avatar!)
Do you want to develop an app?
I’m very unaffected by coffee in any way so I drink 3 cans a day and smoke 40 cigarets.
I drink coffee a lot in the mornings and smoke too
It’s a ritual for me for a long time now
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I find with a couple of the ap’s I was on, the coffee would make me really restless followed by feeling down. With the other ap’s I have tried, coffee didn’t affect me at all and I could drink as much as I wanted.
That is with instant coffee and pod coffee. For real ground coffee I haven’t been able to drink that at all (espresso or perculated), makes me really anxious.
I went the entire decade of the 80’s caffeine free. Then I got back into my 20 to 25 cups a day, Eventually, I gave up coffee again. Now, I drink like 15 cups of decaf coffee a day.
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The medications make me less sensitive to coffee (used to be really sensitive before). But I still only drink one cup a day, that’s enough for me.
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