Ragamuffin
08-02-2002, 04:00 AM
After seeking proper medical help, for most of my adult life, I finally took things into my own hands. I am severely allergic to caffeine, and never knew it. Caffeine and theophylline are often given to stop anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction. The drugs mask their own symptoms. An allergy to caffeine causes anaphylaxis, a true chmical imbalance, which is often mistaken as panic disorder. Caffeine allergy causes many other disorders. Sleep apnea, TMJ, and bruxism,are just a few. Caffeine allergy induces ADD-like symptoms, loss of focus, change of thoughts, leading to the inability to make a clear cut decision, change of intellect level, mood changes, anxiety, OCD, BPD, and schizophrenia. Exhaustion is a sign of caffeine toxicity. A loss of "self" is a sign of allergic toxicity. With caffeine cessation, all disorders vanish, when the hypothalamus returns to its natural state.
Hope this has helped someone. God bless.
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Hope this has helped someone. God bless.
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allowed on these boards, please. Thank you.]
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08-02-2002, 01:01 PM
Yay, you. :) You are so right. Please everybody. Listen to posts like these. We must search out why we feel so rotten. We are all sufferers of 20th century ills. We eat so terribly, we drink poison, we use awful, awful drugs. We are killing ourselves. Caffeine is but one "allergy" we have.
mel333
08-11-2002, 01:10 PM
I agree with this. As a coffee addict with tmj, migranes, neck probs etc, it makes alot of sense. I am trying to quit the caffeine but am so exhausted cutting down even, probobly a symptom.
The interesting thing is my migrane med cafergot contains caffeine. I am wondering why it is present in pain meds. I know it helps pain somewhat but it also seems to cause a rebound pain cycle.
Mel
The interesting thing is my migrane med cafergot contains caffeine. I am wondering why it is present in pain meds. I know it helps pain somewhat but it also seems to cause a rebound pain cycle.
Mel
Jay Tor
08-11-2002, 02:04 PM
This article discusses what caffeine actually does and lists side-effects and drug interactions.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/uspdi/202105.html
Your body can habituate itself very easily to caffeine, and this is the primary reason for withdrawal or rebound symptoms. This is actually very similar to the habituation process that occurs with some steroid use.
After a while the organ that normally produces the compound to regulate certain functions begins to shut down. This occurs because the caffeine interupts the signalling, basically telling the body that this compound does not need to be produced. [Think of a short-circuit in a feedback loop.] If a person stops drinking coffee abruptly, this leaves the body unable to produce any/adequate amounts of a necessary compound. I realize that this is a vague description, but necessarily so as caffeine acts on several systems.
Consider switching to instant coffee; most brands provide only about half the caffeine of drip coffee. Just don't 'cheat' by making the coffee extra strong. To avoid painful rebound effects, reduce the amount you consume gradually i.e. from 6 to 5 cups/day during week 1; 4 cups/day during week 2, etc.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/uspdi/202105.html
Your body can habituate itself very easily to caffeine, and this is the primary reason for withdrawal or rebound symptoms. This is actually very similar to the habituation process that occurs with some steroid use.
After a while the organ that normally produces the compound to regulate certain functions begins to shut down. This occurs because the caffeine interupts the signalling, basically telling the body that this compound does not need to be produced. [Think of a short-circuit in a feedback loop.] If a person stops drinking coffee abruptly, this leaves the body unable to produce any/adequate amounts of a necessary compound. I realize that this is a vague description, but necessarily so as caffeine acts on several systems.
Consider switching to instant coffee; most brands provide only about half the caffeine of drip coffee. Just don't 'cheat' by making the coffee extra strong. To avoid painful rebound effects, reduce the amount you consume gradually i.e. from 6 to 5 cups/day during week 1; 4 cups/day during week 2, etc.