Are you dependent on coffee?

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On Saturday, for whatever reason, I was too busy to have my usual coffee. By the afternoon, I was super tired and had a nap and then also went to bed much earlier than usual.

Same thing happened on Sunday, I skipped coffee and felt sleepy much earlier and went to bed a little earlier than usual (I was tired much earlier, but fought against it a bit).

This morning I felt quite refreshed, but now at work, I was starting to feel sluggish so decided to have a coffee.

I’m wondering whether I should give up coffee for a while and try to sleep more.

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I’m unapologetically dependent on my morning coffee.

I think, however, that it’s not the caffein, but rather the routine that I need. That 15 minutes of peace, where I am free to contemplate life, the universe, and everything, fresh brew in hand, sets me up for the rest of the day.

Downing a cup as I dash out the door gives me the same caffein, yet I still am left feeling grumpy and fuzzy-brained.

One of the blessings of growing older is there seems to be less need to dash out the door these days, and more time for the luxury of a quiet morning cuppa.

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I have a couple of tablespoons of espresso from the Jura with a quarter-cup of hot milk. I think it’s really, as you say, the ritual rather than the caffeine. It could just as well be a cup of tea, watching the sun come over the mountains and the neighbour’s hens start their messy foraging…before I go out and replace all the mulch they’ve thrown out of my flower beds.

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There are probably better things to give up than coffee.

It’s got many health benefits including reducing risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke (if you drink it in the morning).

So, if you’re worried about it’s affect on sleep, drink it in the morning and perhaps change the way you drink it:

Arabica beans have less caffeine than Robusta.

Coffee which isn’t brewed at a high temperature but under mechanical pressure has less caffeine drawn out of it.

So forget the Mokka pot, drip filter and so on and have an espresso or cappucino!

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I’m the same but with tea rather than coffee.

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I have one coffee a day, max. 1st thing in the morning. If I don’t have it, for whatever reason I get irritable, according to others.

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I rarely drink coffee. In wintertime when I may want a hot drink in the morning instead of a cold one, but that’s it. Same with tea in the afternoon.

My main drinks are ice tea - a glass with breakfast and another for morning break - and water for anything else that’s not a hot drink.

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I am totally dependent on coffee. Like many if I stop drinking it for a longer time I’d get a headache. But I am mostly enjoying the taste, not the kick. I can also give you a recommendation for coffee beans.

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Me too, hiwever I do, or did, like the coffee at the Aral station just before getting on the A96 in Munich.
It was a good coffee but recently the crew has changed and the coffee is now a weak and bitter tasting yuk that looks like the waterbowl of an aquarelle painter, the machine is the same the price is the same but these buggers cant make a coffee to save their lives.
So rant over!

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It may not be the making of the coffee, but the cleaning of the machine. A machine in a location like that likely needs to be cleaned multiple times a day.

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Ew!

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I also only have a maximum of one coffee a day but that’s mid morning, I couldn’t stomach a coffee first thing in the morning.

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Is that available at Starbucks..?

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A few years ago I made the mistake of self medicating due to migraines and decided to give up coffee. I suffered a few weeks of withdrawal headaches. I missed my daily hit but perservered for nearly a year. Then the migraines came back. I saw a specialist. Firstly he pointed out that such infrequent migraines were nothing to worry about. Then he laughed at me for giving up coffee for no good reason. I abstained for a year for nothing. So now I’m never giving up my sweet sweet drug ever again.

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For some reason I also have to sleep much more these days. Coffee doesn’t really help, it keeps me awake but like a zombie, totally unproductive

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I can function within coffee but it makes it easier to deal with lack of sleep and waking up early.

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I was just reading this in some Reddit channel and found it funny:

Vietnamese Coffee Will Ruin You

I visited Vietnam two weeks ago. And while visiting I decided to try some coffee at the hotel.

(I wasn’t sure when I’d be able to find another coffee)

At home, I drink a lot of coffee it’s basically a religion.

Two steps out of the hotel, bam a cafe with coffee.

So I stopped there because, who knows when I’d find another coffee place, and wanted to try the difference between the hotel coffee and a cafe.

Bam, my taste buds smashed, with a more delicious cup of coffee. Saigon iced this time.

Dark, rich, sweet, chocolaty all the notes where there.

Suddenly my fingers started tingling, palms sweaty, beads of sweat swelling on my forehead.

I asked for the bill and left…

For about 15 minutes I was at a near half run moving aimlessly through saigon. The world appeared as if I were looking through a fisheye lens.

I could hear my veines swelling of caffeine, almost like leaves blowing across concrete.

Thrump, thrump, thrump.

Damn, this shit is strong… I mumbled to myself.

I meanderd around looking at the sites getting a feel for the city.

Until I started to feel like myself again. But without that caffeine I was dragging.

So again I stopped. By this time I realized their a cafe every 5 meters. You can’t miss, kinda like a homless person in Portland Oregon.

I ordered an egg coffee, because why not? No sooner had the mug left my lips that my cheeks were aching with the joy of a creme bruleish flavour with… You guessed it, another coffee injection.

That all to familiar and now we’ll received caffeine pulsing injection my body was aching for.

So a few weeks of traveling and drinking Avery coffee Vietnam had to offer.

I get up and make myself some coffee… A pour over v60 with one of my favourite arabica beans…

I brewed it, put it to my lips… And nothing.

My heart sank, oh, right maybe I’m drinking hot water, I forgot to brew the coffee in my sleepy morning ritual.

I looked down… Damit, I was drinking coffee.

But it was tasteless, weak and worthless.

Now… I’m stuck drinking what can only be described as burnt water…

Waiting until my phin filter and condonesed milk with dark roast arrives by mail, before I can feel like myself again…

Your coffee has changed me, and I’m a better person for it.

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Do you snore? Check your sleep oxygen levels. Feeling sleepy during day, headaches in the morning, falling sleep while traveling in bus/car etc could be signs of Sleep Apnea.