I dont smoke weed, or anything else, i dont drink, and i would call myself overall a pretty "good" girl. however, i do pop caffine pills like no other, and though i could stop, i really just dont want to. its getting scary because i will forget the last time i took a pill (No Doz) and then ill take another; and before long i feel sick to my stomach and can feel my heart beating against my chest. along with the pills, i drink a lot of diet coke (not caffine free...) and coffee throughout the day. as much as it's not "fun," it almost is to me. i look forward to it. it keeps my mind off things and im convinced it will help me loose weight because of the motabolism and energy kick it gives me. anyone else dealing with this? maybe you used to but now youve quit the habit? any advice or anything would be great; i just need some help in thinking positivly about getting off so much caffine.
Become an olympic swimmer. You would be a really fast one I bet. Why not see if you can get in the Guiness Book Of Records for "popping the most caffein pills and then running 300 miles to see how long it takes"? Another bit of advice is to buy a meter that registers your heartbeats and see if you can beat the world record of 375 a minute Does all that caffein make you shit a lot?
I work lots of night and early morning shifts and I drink so much coffee it makes some people nervous... a co worker bought me a huge 52 oz insulated mug for my birthday, and some busy days (mornings usually) I finish the whole thing in 4-6 hours. I don't often get coffee shits but occasionally do, I do however have stomach pain sometimes, probably an ulcer, I think coffee might be the cause... also occasional migraines but I have no idea if that's related...
I drink alot of coffee. One thing that helps me not to over do it....is just to drink like 1/2 or 3/4 of a cup at a time.....I do that about every two hours. (I have about 1 1/2 cups in the morning). I wish I could afford organic coffee but I can't so I get worried about all the chemicals.
I like neworder's response... lol... but seriously, they can give you panic attacks... and those are really not fun
I'm in the same boat, dietcoketree. Except I don't typically pop NoDoz's, I stick with coffee and VaultZero. Yesterday I drank a 24oz coffee, followed by a 20oz Vault, and later that evening 2 huge cups of coffee. I felt like my mind had been running down a hill, tripped over its own feet, and gone ass over tincup the rest of the way down and the hill was Mount Everest. It's caused panic attacks in me a few times, but no longer. I just feel like my mind is going 1,000,000 MPH. At first I never got chest pains but these days I do, along with bad stomach pains when I don't get at least 600mg of caffeine to start my day. Oh yeah..forgot about my Coke intake :/ Eventually I guess I'll have to stop to eliminate the chest pains. Leaves me wondering what such high doses of caffeine do to my heart, yet my heartrate never goes above 120 resting at my highest doses. Same with all stims, for me.
I'm fighting a caf addiction now. Clean for two days, on doctor's orders. I've been a caf junkie since junior high, and it's making me physically ill. Nothing but water for the Squirrel from here on out. Bleah.
I dealt with this too, while struggling with an eating disorder. But I'm not really sure how I quit... I guess, once very important people found them, and were really hurt by it, I tried really hard to quit, which eventually I did. The only time I've ever lied to my fiancee was over caffiene/ephedra pills. I knew he would be upset if he knew I was taking them, but yet, I felt like I "needed" them so badly... so I disguised them by emptying a bottle of vitamins and throwing the caffeine pills in that, so that if he ever found the bottle, he wouldnt think twice. I felt very guilty though...so that it really affected the way I was acting in general... and he kept asking me about it, in fears that I didn't like him anymore or that I found someone else. I kept assuring him everything was okay, and it hurt me a lot that I was making him worry over our relationship like that... my guilt took over, and I ended up calling him up one night in tears, apologizing over and over for being so dishonest with him. He was so upset, and I couldnt bear it so I threw all the remaining pills down the toilet and vowed to myself never to hurt him like that again. I still eye No Doz and other caffeine/ephedra/diet pills up in the store all the time, and I have to really fight with myself to not give in to it. I guess you really just have to find a reason to stop, and stick with it, and stay strong... I'm never really sure how I get over things. I just do.
