There is also caffeine free Diet Coke which I love.
Or, as I often disparage it: the least Cokey of the Cokes. (I still drink it from time to time.)
Punctuation and capitalization can help.
“2 K-Cups”
Instead of
“2 k cups.”
I’m still curious about:
“one Pepsi one”
That’s a little like Spanish with the question marks at beginning and end.
Or legalese sorta:
“one Pepsi (1)”
Or maybe just overemphasizing:
“One Pepsi. One. Just one, I swear I only had one.”
Sorry for the hasty post earlier.
I meant Pepsi Zero - years ago a similar product was called Pepsi One for awhile.
But I do like your description!
I started a 10 day prednisone taper this week and it inevitably impacts everything I write and say so I am trying to limit myself until I am done with the meds. It tends to make me manic and fragmented. I lose attention to detail and focus.
Potential confusion has been known to arise while I am on this RX and in fact I had a bit of a situation at work today lol.
One Coke Zero, too.
Everyone seems to be skipping over the “diet” part. Did you ever consider that the artificial sweeteners are the problem? Switch back to regular sugared drinks and see if the situation improves.
If it does, find another place to reduce the 120 calories you were saving with the diet drink.
“And she wouldn’t give it to me!”
Every time I go to dialysis they hand me a can of regular coke or sprite.
For unforseen glucose drops.
I’ve rarely drank it.
Ivy usually has it.
I have other ways to bring up my glucose level that I can stomach easier.
I don’t understand how anyone could drink a whole bottle of pop.
I know they are addictive. My grandkids would chew their leg off to get to one. Kids should never get the first taste of it til they’re in their teens. Supervised.
I always say that was one thing my mom got right. We never had soda when we were kids. When I was a teen working at McDonalds, I got to drink all I wanted, thought I was in heaven. But the habit didn’t stick. These days I’ll theoretically have it as a treat when I don’t feel well, but it rarely seems to happen.
Also known as rebound headache. Lisa Kudrow’s dad was one of the first to describe the phenomenon.
I’ve never drunk a lot of soda. Three cans a year would be a lot for me. I have to limit my calories and caffeine intake, and I’d rather eat my calories than drink them. I also prefer coffee to sweet drinks.
The two are not mutually exclusive. I just finished a bottle of Starbucks caramel (I think it’s latte?). I strongly prefer Wawa’s brand. Besides IMHO tasting better, they are half the price.
I used to occasionally drink a small mocha (not for years, though), but those super sugary coffee drinks nauseate me.
If caffeine is your problem then the Excedrin is your problem. 3 Diet Cokes equals about one large cup of coffee caffeine wise. Those pills are more than double that depending on how much you take. And you take it all at once when you pop a pill, not gradually as you sip a soda.
Knock off all caffeine and then use just enough that you don’t feel crummy but you’re not using that much. Report back with your results.
I used to drink energy drinks as my caffeine vector. Then one morning I had an especially egregious hangover. Usually chugging an energy drink would help but not that time. I near instantly barfed it all up. Now all energy drinks taste like barf to me, so problem solved. I only drink water now. Or beer.
I’m glad I’m not the only one to think the same thing!
To put numbers on it, one Excedrin is 65 mg of caffeine and one can of Diet Coke is 46 mg of caffeine. I don’t think the headaches are from losing the soda caffeine given the number of pills you’re taking.
Yeah, not coffee. Dessert.
Are you 100% certain the issue is caffeine?
If you have given up diet soda and you are following the advice of a nutritionist it is likely you are changing the flora in your gut. AIUI, Aspartame has a negative effect on internal bacteria. Cutting it out of your diet and eating things that feed the good bacteria might cause some issues. Issues that do go away sooner rather than later.
I quit drinking Coca-Cola about 5 years ago. I was having one at lunch time and
sometimes a second one in the afternoon. I quit by slowly pushing back the time
that I would have the coke. I would eat my lunch for about 5 - 10 minutes before
taking a sip of the coke. About a week later I pushed it back to 10 - 15 minutes.
After about another week I would drink water for the first half of my lunch and
then switch to coke for the second half. Eventually I got to the point where
I would just drink water but would buy a coke to drink at my desk after lunch.
After a while I pushed this back to 10 minutes after lunch, then 15 minutes,
20 minutes, etc. until I was getting through most of afternoon with having
a coke. At the end of the day I would dump any remainder into the sink.
I kept pushing it back until after about 5 - 6 weeks I stopped drinking it on
a daily basis. I still will have one occassionly but don’t really like the stuff any
more - it tastes sickeningly sweet now, probably due to the fact that I’ve mostly
given up sugar also.
I an very sensitive to caffeine. Every year, in preparation for fasting on Yom Kippur, i cut back on my tea consumption over a week or two. I never go cold turkey. That leads to headaches, tiredness, etc.
I actually measure out my daily doses of loose tea to make sure i decline gradually. Some years i go right back to tea after the holiday, other years i stay off caffeine for a month or more.
I took a no-doz once. Never again. I’ve never taken Excedrin. But the caffeine pill was pretty potent. There are other painkillers that don’t come packaged with caffeine.
I also can’t take caffeine after lunch or it disrupts my sleep. Ymmv. But you might try drinking soda only in the morning, and see if that helps the issues you are having. Most people can safely consume the equivalent of a could cups of coffee a day.
A No Doz is 200 mg or three Excedrins. A standard 8 oz cup of coffee is around 100 mg