How can I break my addiction to caffeine? It’s REALLY bad…?
Question by Drewshbag: How can I break my addiction to caffeine? It’s REALLY bad…?
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I’m 15, i drink A LOT of energy drinks, and im addicted to caffeine. in 2008 I had over 16 gallons of Monster energy drinks. i tried to quit, and didn’t have any caffeine for 2 weeks. I had withdrawals, and they were really bad.
I was ALWAYS tired no matter what time it was, but i couldn’t sleep at night despite the fact that i was tired, i had random, severe depression for no reason whatsoever, headaches that hurt more than anything I could have ever imagined (even 3 ibuprofen didn’t help at all), I was randomly nauseous (2-3 times a day every day), I couldn’t focus on even the simplest tasks, and even if i could focus on something, i had no motivation to do it.
how can i quit caffeine without feeling withdrawal symptoms? How long will it take?
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I know this is really bad, because my doctor told me it’s the worst caffeine addiction he has seen it his 45 years of being a doctor, and the other yahoo answers questions only described headaches.
I’m 15 years old. I drink A LOT of Monster energy drinks. I keep the little tabs from the top of the can whenever i have one and put it in this box in my room (one box for each year). i recently counted them all up from 2008, and here’s what i drank from 1-1-08 to 12-31-08:
68 regular cans (16 fl oz)
28 XXL cans (24 fl oz)
9 BFC cans (32 fl oz)
1 Hitman shot (3 fl oz)
thats a little over 16 gallons.
I want to quit, because i know it’s horrible for me, and it’s SUCH a waste of money, but i tried, and i had the WORST withdrawal symptoms in the world. I didn’t have even a sip of Monster, or any caffeine (not even headache pills with caffeine) for two weeks (ending today, I had a BFC today), and those were the hardest weeks of my life.
Here are some of the symptoms I had:
I was ALWAYS tired no matter what time it was, but i couldn’t sleep at night despite the fact that i was tired, i had random, severe depression for no reason whatsoever, headaches that hurt more than anything I could have ever imagined (even 3 ibuprofen didn’t help at all), I was randomly nauseous (2-3 times a day every day), I couldn’t focus on even the simplest tasks, and even if i could focus on something, i had no motivation to do it.
Those went on over 2 weeks with no signs of slowing down at all. Today I had a BFC, and i was in the best mood i’ve been in for about 2 weeks. I need to quit caffeine, this is really bad.
How long will it take to get through the withdrawals?
How can I get through withdrawals feeling as little symptoms as possible?
another withdrawal symptom was that i would twitch a lot out of nowhere, sometimes in mid sentence, and it was bad too. it happened to me before i tried to quit caffeine, but it was more severe during those two weeks
its not that i want to drink caffeine again , i really dont, but the withdrawals are so bad i feel like i NEED the caffeine.
Best answer:
Answer by Mariah W
you really should stop drinking caffine.
no matter how bad the withdrawls are, and no matter how much you want to start drinking it again, you HAVE to stop.
seriously.
you’re going to destroy your heart.
my mom was addicted to caffine and ended up having to walk around for months with this thing monitoring her heart because the caffine was screwing it up. and didn’t drink nearly as much as you….
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