Do You Guys Drink Coffee/Caffeine?

I've always loved coffee, one of my few vices. But I'd like to start transitioning away from drinking coffee, at least for a period of time. It gives me some energy and has often helped with headaches, but I wonder if it keeps taxing my adrenals and if this may be having an effect on my testosterone levels (which have consistently been low). I don't know how strong a relationship there is between adrenal fatigue and testosterone production, but I figure this experiment can't hurt...

I figure I'll switch to mostly drinking matcha tea for now. I can still get a bit of caffeine but from a less acidic drink, and I think it has less effect on the adrenals. Plus I can tell it has a bit of activity against my babesia, which is a bonus.

How about you guys? do you drink coffee/caffeine? or do you avoid it with this health condition? and if you have any info in regards to coffee/adrenals/testosterone I'd love to hear about it.

Good luck with the green tea Alxander!!! I hope it will be tolerable and hope it helps with the liver enzymes.

It's interesting how for some patients coffee eases symptoms, at least temporarily. Really helped with my pressure headaches. And others react badly, like in your case.

For so long life has been quite rough, and coffee was one of the few bright spots that helped me transcend that momentarily and feel slightly normal (and it helped me get work done). But I feel better overall at this point in time, still working on healing, but well enough that I think I can do without the band-aid of coffee at least for a while.

I love coffee and, yes, I take it every morning. That is my daily indulgence. Some days I have a second coffee, but this time decaffeinated. I haven't noticed any unpleasant reaction. In the past I took three a day, but now limited to one.

I have never liked the taste of coffee - so I am not a coffee drinker

But I do drink earl gray tea - I like it weak - so I don’t get much caffeine - don’t drink it daily.

No but I drink Bai drinks which have caffeine. I have probably 210mg total a day. I feel different from this caffeine than I do with coffee, or soda, though people deny they are different I know they affect me differently. Coffee I only use for enemas lol.

I drink a few cups with stevia and a bit of organic heavy cream. It often makes my head feel better and a bit clearer.

I get massive migraines from withdrawl though if I don’t drink it, which is probably not good.

have to agree with whoever said coffee was a "poisoned bandaid" because that's definitely what it feels like to me. I'm a student and ive got to work. i literally can't push myself through the day without coffee. I know my adrenals are shot so i know cofffee's terrible but I wonder if it's actually taking the place of all the cortisol i'm not (?) producing.
the year before my diagnosis, coffee would have really weird effects on me. I would actually act high when on coffee (laughing hysterically, hyper, talking nonsensically) just really wierd, i'd also get hot flashes (and I was 18, should NOT have been having hot flashes),a nd I'd get really dizzy. now i know I have lyme, i wonder if that's why it had that effect.
When I drink coffee now it mainly just wakes me up enough to keep functioning and ignoring all the aches and pains. It definitely exacerbates my psych symptoms: while it helps me to think clearer it also sends my lyme-caused OCD/anxiety/mood swings into hyperdrive.... but what can you do when you HAVE to get through the workday, right? I would love to give it up but i can think of no other option right now.

Oh. one more thing. I am a big peppermint tea drinker, imagine that . But, I just ordered some Cistus tea on Amazon as another replacement for my afternoon coffee. Check this article out https://www.prohealth.com/library/cistus-a-natural-antibiotic-antiviral-and-biofilm-buster-6292

Warmly -

Peppermint Tea

Yes I too have a cup every morning. I need it to wake up but can feel nauseous after it sometimes.
It also makes a strange body odour happen.

I hear you, borrelioburgdorferii. Have you ever drank Kombucha? I swear it gives me a pick me up.

1000Daisies said...
I think there is something wrong with me. Well, there is plenty wrong with me, but that's for another thread.

In regards to coffee, I literally have no desire to drink it at all. The smell and taste do not appeal to me at all. Like NO DESIRE at all for coffee. I would have to force myself to drink/gag it down. A friend gave me a "coffee-flavored" hard candy, and I immediately gagged on it and spit it out. Another friend took that same type of candy and loved it (he loves/addicted to coffee).

I'm guessing if I ran a genetics test, I'm missing the gene to appreciate/like coffee.

PS Caffeine does NOTHING for me. I've been told it's because I have adrenal fatigue. I could easily drink a can of Mt. Dew and go right to sleep!

I thought I was the only person alive who doesn’t like coffee.
Plus I don’t like coffee flavoured candies or icing or ANYTHING.

I can’t understand the love for coffee people have. It’s bitter.



I.dont.get.it

1000Daisies said...
Girlie, we must have a mutant gene defect to not like coffee.

You ever get grief socially for not drinking or liking coffee? I do sometimes. I really don't care if others drink coffee, but I don't get why it strikes a nerve with some others that I don't drink coffee. Like, why do they care what I drink or don't drink? It's a huge social thing though (at least around here).

LOL - I don't really get hassled...but people are usually surprised. At first they think it's some kind of health 'kick' I'm on...and then I explain I don't like the taste.
They go on to say things like they couldn't function without coffee...and how do I wake up in the morning....etc. etc.
At work, everyone chips in to buy good coffee. And I refuse......that must p-ss them off.

I just remembered my mom (RIP) never liked coffee either. She forced herself to drink it (the neighborhood ladies would get together in the afternoon after the kids went to school).
She said after several weeks...she grew a taste for it.

...and I can say she turned into a coffee 'connoisseur'. Ground her beans every morning...lol. Couldn't start the day without it.

So....I think maybe if we wanted to 'fit in' we could force ourselves to drink it...and eventually it's possible we would like it...too?

So when I 'go for coffee' with a friend...I have tea.

Perfect time for this thread for me!

I didn't start drinking coffee until I was around 28. I had only been drinking it for about 9 months when I contracted Lyme. I continued to drink it for a few months but it made me feel SO bad that I quit for nearly 2 years.
I picked it back up late last year.

I adore coffee. It really is addicting. I crave the taste and feel of it in the morning. That being said, when I started to relapse this spring I started to become unable to drink it. It would make me feel way worse and my anxiety and then symptoms would go through the roof.

So that brings me to today. I have been treating since August pretty aggresively. My kidney pain has been mild/moderate with what I assume is my kidneys trying to filter crap out. I decided a week ago I wasn't drinking coffee anymore. It made me feel too bad. Today, I talked myself into it by saying I was going to go workout and get the sauna after drinking it this morning. Thirty minutes after drinking the coffee I started to have SEVERE kidney pain. I thought I was going to throw up. I have to attribute that to the coffee. (Please don't be a kidney stone!)

Bye Bye coffee, I love thee but it's time to flee