[Clinging Bitterly]

My doctor has been trying to get me to lay off the go-juice and the coffin nails for years. Over the years I have been sent to the ER more than a couple times for symptoms that have been blamed my high coffee consumption. It sometimes makes me tach out, along with angina. But heart tests always come out fine and after learning the results I calm down & I'm good for about 18 months. It is a cycle I have repeated for about 12 years now. Doc says it's the coffee as other causes for rapid heartbeat are ruled out, but try as I might, I simply can not function without it.

Early stage COPD is getting me more concerned about smoking these days and I have cut my smoking in half.

[blam]

"Early stage COPD is getting me more concerned about smoking these days and I have cut my smoking in half."

I quit smoking 9 months ago after 40+ years. I still want one every day though. If I have to give up coffee, I'd rather die, lol. (BTW, I gained 25 pounds in 9 months)

[Psycho_Bunny]

Ya....I had much the same thing happening. It reached the point where I had twitching so bad I couldn't sleep.

My doctor gave me 30 days of larazepam and told me to stop drinking coffee.

This was the second time I tried: the first time I tried I couldn't move for two days. Literally, I was crawling to the bathroom to take a bath.

So this time I went and bought a pound and a half of regular, a half-pound of decaf and mixed them.

When I ran out of that, I bought a pound of each. I went a couple pound-of-each cycles then went to a half-pound of regular/pound and a half of decaf. After a couple cycles of that, I went all decaf.

It worked. Now I don't even like the stuff.