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    No CAFEEN?!?

    So, I was having chest pains, as well as other weird things, and I had the doc check it out and I was something like 147/95, which is very high blood pressure. I got off the caffeine for a few weeks, lowered salt intake, excercised daily...Basically did everything I had to in order to not be on meds.

    The good news is I haven't been having any chest pains or weirdness since I've been off the caffeine, and I'm down to 127/83 now. My weight is at 184, which is the lowest it's been in years (was around 189 when I had the high reading), and I have a 32 inch waist. The bad news is...he wants me to stay off the caffiene. This sucks, because I love to at least have a diet coke w/ my meal...I mean, I'd at least like to be allowed that. Plus, it's hard to keep focus w/out it on these 13 hour days I'm working.

    Blah. I just had to vent somewhere. Maybe I can have caffeine if I keep the excercise & water drinking up, and salt intake down.
    Last edited by Kire; 11-28-2007, 01:01 PM.
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    ?
    Last edited by Smurf Taco; 11-28-2007, 01:49 PM.
    Do what you wish

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      #3
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      Yeah, but most places don't offer a caffeine free diet anything usually.

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        #4
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        You know, they DO sell caffeine Free diet cola- it is usually in a copper can. As a bonus to you, it is sodium free!!!!

        I have abnormally low blood pressure (97/59 when I haven't eaten in the last few hours), so my extremities are usually ice cold. That 147/95 reading you had is high, but not VERY high.


        EDIT- Ah, smurf taco beat me to it. Kire, you say "most places don't offer a caffeine free diet anything"- I see caffeine free cola in all the grocery stores I go to, so if these "most places" you are referring to are fast food joints, I think you have a bigger problem than caffeine consumption.
        Last edited by Sezjeuric; 11-28-2007, 01:55 PM.

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          #5
          Re: No CAFEEN?!?

          I stopped drinking soda or pop or whatever the hell you like to call it about 2 years ago. I dont drink coffee either. Its scary to think tons of people rely on the stuff to get them through the day. I seem to do just fine without it.

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            #6
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            It's all for the best to kick your drug habit.

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              #7
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              Ugh, I don't like the smell of coffee and have never drank it. My energy level is through the roof at work in the morning. In fact, I won the "Best Morning Person" award at the annual Holiday party.

              I do drink waaay too much diet pop, cola included (just to clarify for Crunk, Cola is a type of soda, it is the brown stuff. Calling it Coke is like calling a tissue a Kleenex or a photocopy a Xerox). I love the feeling of the bubbles on my tongue. I am hoping to give it up for Lent like I gave up chocolate one year and popcorn the other.

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                #8
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                I drink a lot of coke. A lot.
                And by coke, I mean pepsi.

                Im from the South. :3
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                  #9
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                  I frequently imbibe refreshing carbonated beverages in great quantities. However, it's been a while since I've been to the grocery store (not having a car and working 50+ hours a week for the past three weeks AND 1-4 overnights a week will do that), and my supply is currently depleted. I've actually got one 2 liter of Vernor's ginger ale left, but I'm just not in the mood to drink it. I feel like I'm a damn addict, jonesing for my refreshing carbonated beverages and energy drinks (which I am currently out of as well). Wait, I AM an addict. Just not a practicing one.

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                    #10
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                    The Cyclops having only one eye, needed to seek shelter from the harsh sun. The shadow cast by the spheres gave him temporary respite.

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                      #11
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                      I usually buy a Vault every day in the morning. It's 79 cents I can't pass that up. Plus a sandwich is usually $4.00 ugh.

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                        #12
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                        I had a problem like this a few months back. It was my heart, it was skipping random beats, So no caffine. The meds I could have taken had a 25% chance of killing me, Because of my ADD.
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                          #13
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                          You know what Grims? I think you pointed out something kind of ironic. In the world of medication today, do you notice that side effects are sometimes worse than the actual problem you are treating?

                          Even with my low blood pressure, my heart rate used to be through the roof. There was a topic made back when I had to wear an electrocardiogram. Even though I was a fit person and consumed a lot of caffeine, that wasn't the culprit- it was my birth control

                          My sister had constant dizzy spells and she went through a rigorous testing regime. My mom panicked when she found out it could be a tumour. In the end, all the dizzy spells were the result of crystals forming on the tiny hairs in her ears that detect balance. The doctor told her the only medication they had to treat it would make her infertile. She loves kids, so she passed.

                          Caffeine is commonly blamed for a lot of things it isn't necessarily the culprit of. It's true that some people can be sensitive to it. Keep in mind though, while energy drinks say to not consume more than 1-2 cans a day, you have people like Britney Spears who will knock back close to a dozen during a video shoot.
                          Last edited by Sezjeuric; 11-28-2007, 06:08 PM.

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                            #14
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                            Again of the topic of medicine side effects, when I had cancer they would give me all these chemotherapy drugs, that usually had like an insane side effect like 'Heart defects' or 'Bone tissue loss'. Which, led them to give me even more medicine to counteract the side effects. Well of course the medicine for the side effects had side effects of it's own.

                            And now, on the topic of caffeine, I stopped drinking caffeine a few years ago, while I still have it every once in a while (Maybe 1-2 times a week.) I drink about 8-10 bottles of water a day now.
                            1) Statement 2 is true
                            2) Statement 1 is false

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                              #15
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                              You will never take me off caffeine. It is my sanctuary. I made art about it.

                              ... said Denethor.
                              Last edited by Kirin; 11-28-2007, 07:13 PM.
                              In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and is widely considered as a bad move.

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