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I found out that one of the biggest things that gives me low back pain is.....

Caffeine.

I stopped doing caffeine in February or March and I can’t tell you how much better my back is. The exercises do wonders but if I have caffeine, I will still have slightly nagging pain or spasms.

So now, I only drink decaffeinated coffee, decaffeinated soda and I try to avoid chocolate or anything else with caffeine in it.

I noticed one day that it seemed like my back always hurt right after drinking coffee so I googled something about coffee and low back pain just out of curiosity and desperation...

Turns out there are a lot of people who are very sensitive to caffeine and get low back spasms/pain when they drink
coffee.

I can feel it the next day if I go to McDonald’s and order 1 diet coke so it really is a thing.

I sleep better and get up better in the morning, my skin looks better too.

I used to be a big coffee drinker. However, as sleep issues started to be a concern, I phased out most of it. I drink one cup in the am. Sometimes, a second cup after breakfast.

Then I switch to green or herbal tea. Sometimes I have decaf after dinner-that’s my dessert.

I rarely eat chocolate-too much sugar.

In recent studies, it was found that the coffee drinkers had less of the inflammation that leads to heart attacks.

I doubt that caffeine is my issue with respect to my back.

I also don’t think it keeps me awake. I have had breakfast and coffee and half an hour later gone right to sleep. I seem to have a weird circadian rhythm. Trying to fit my schedule into a normal person’s means I go to bed wide awake, and get up tired, groggy, and dragging.

By the time bedtime comes, I have perked up. It’s frustrating.