Caffeine

Headache will last about three days, be careful and do not take migraine over the counter pain relievers as they contain caffeine. Hang in there. It does get better. If you get in really bad shape have something with only a little bit of caffiene once a day for one week and then stop that. It worked for me. Drink more water.

water. you need to start drinking lots and lots of water. i have given up smoking and drinking soda. and i never felt those feelings before when i gave up drinking caffeine. i do know lot's of water does help alot

sorry u r going thru that...it must be hard...i've never had an "addiction" not to say u do...but i drink coffee n i can then go without it...i once drank coca-cola daily..but i needed to give it up to try to lose weight n it wasn't hard at all..just stopped n didn't feel any withdrawls from it.

my suggestion is to quit slowly not cold turkey. caffine can be a hard one to kick. the only pain killer that will probably work is the tylenol ultra because it has caffine in it.

Hi, 3cardmonte! Yes, I drink cofee every blue moon. But when I do drink coffee, I make sure that it does not have any caffeine in it. Maybe you should lie down for a while and relax. I hope that your head will stop bothering you.

I've never given it up, but have had friends and relatives who have had to for health reasons. Most did better if they tapered it off slowly, they didn't get so many headaches. Why don't you try it that way?

You should do a gradual caffeine withdrawal to avoid the headaches. I've never tried to quit cold turkey like that but do try to drink non-caffeine soft drinks now. I love my coffee too much to give that up. I'd rather make sacrifices in other ares like the soft drinks! Good luck and maybe go ahead and give yourself a treat...a cup of weak coffee and see if that helps. Reduce the number of cups you have each day and make it weaker each day until you can get off of it without headaches. My mom had this problem and it took awhile to live a day without headaches.

I couldn't imagine giving up coffee all together! It gives me that jump start in the morning, lol. I get headaches if I don't drink ENOUGH of it, let alone noe at all. Good luck in your attempt!

Hi 3cardmonte, I drink coffee occasionally. When I was in school, I used to drink it for the caffeine. Nothing worked for me (slept 5 min after finishing the coffee) except a double shot expresso. But, that's kinda not nice and pocket-burning. Now, I just drink it for the taste normally and not for the caffeine. Anyway for your case, you might want to try weening i.e. drink less each day till you stop totally. If you stop abruptly (and especially if you used to have a high dosage each day), the effect would be painful as you said you have experienced. So, my suggestion would be for you to take it gradually.

I drink coffee before and i love it but i started to stop for no reason. I just skip to chocolate drink or milk coz i want to gain some weight. I been thin since i was a kid. But i dont remember having a problems like yours. I drink paracetamol whenever I have headache.

I drink quite a lot of coffee, and I have never actually given it up although I know that I should really! When I have gone out for the day before now I have not had coffee and the headache I end up with is absolutely awful, so now when I am going to be out all day I make sure I get a coffee break! I have recently cut down on the amount of coffee I drink and I replace certain cups with water instead, I found that I was unable to sleep properly and I was having nightmares! Its crazy to think that it does that to a person!!!

I would love to help but I have not mastered my own addiction. Mine is more to soda than coffee although I drink coffee sometimes, too. My headache medicine is caffeine based and works better than anything I have ever tried (the rest hurt my stomach). It requires a doctor's rx and it's called Fioricet. It has a brother (or cousin) Fiorinal but that one does not work as well for me.

i drink coffee 2 times a day and this habit i cannot stop i try to stop but sometimes i feel theres something missing and till now i cant stop to drink coffee

Why do you have to leave caffeine in so short a time? Shouldn´t you go little by little if it´s bad for your health? I couln´t stop drinking coffee altogether but I could slow down with it if needed. Relax, take it easy. Take care

I drink a lot of coffee every day. I refuse to drink decaf because to me it defeats the purpose. I have gone without for a total of 2 weeks at a time a few different times, but I always go back to it. I know that Excedrine Migraine medicine is a combination of tylenol and caffeine and is great for migraine headaches. Because it has a small amount of caffeine in it, it may help your heaaches.