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28-08-2007, 03:31 PM
|  | Administrative Editor PTSD | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Bec, if you have cut back though, and lets say you cut the before bed coffee and don't drink it say.... two hours prior to going to bed; do you believe it affects your sleep or not? I drink the stuff all day and it doesn't affect my sleep. I go to bed around 9 - 10 nowadays, wakeup at 5 - 7am in the morning... depending on what I have on any given day. |
28-08-2007, 03:33 PM
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I have cut it out.. even for entire evenings for weeks at a time and I find it makes no damn difference at all. Still have the same sleep problems. It's frustrating actually cause I constantly hear that I need to "cut the coffee" and I will sleep and it just doesn't work.
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28-08-2007, 03:41 PM
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Then maybe its just not the coffee for you, like myself. Coffee wasn't the cause for me not sleeping... damn anxiety caused by trauma was. |
28-08-2007, 04:19 PM
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Ok so Im really slow but I just scored 92% tried Bec just not to your caliber, I need my coffee or I don't function and I can drink it any time of day or night |
29-08-2007, 05:10 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA
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Caffeine depleits the calcium in bones, and it makes cysts in breast tissue, uteruses (uteri?), overies, all over the place where I don't want cysts.
Do decaf. |
29-08-2007, 05:20 PM
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OK, I cannot blame coffee for sleep issues, but anxiety, jumpiness, buzzed... They don't seem much better off but once I try to drink again they are so much worse. |
29-08-2007, 10:53 PM
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I think its because your body gets used to it so you dont feel the effects so much. I wasn't aware of how much caffiene effected me until i stopped drinking it. I had a headache for about a week and now when I drink coke I feel it pretty much straight away. Guess everyone's tolerance is different. If I have a coke now I try not to have one after 3pm. That way I hope its out of my system by bedtime. It just makes sense, no stimulants before bed is my rule. Alcohol makes my dreams much worse too. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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