I had the mother of all migraines yesterday. Two days before I’d made up my mind to give up coffee. I usually took four cups of strong black coffee everyday. Two in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one early evening. It had never bothered me before. In fact it was the fuel I couldn’t do without. But in the past three weeks I’d been having problems falling asleep and staying asleep. For that reason and reasons related to aging gracefully🙃, I decided to give up coffee. So I went cold turkey.
First day I felt a bit disoriented and somewhat anxious, but nothing to be too concerned over. But at night I kept waking up sweating, and noticed one kind of strange head feeling. Something like cotton wool inside my head, and muscle aches, wanting to “crack” my joints, stretching my whole body to it’s extreme length, and not being able to “crack” the incredibly tight knots.
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Yesterday morning, it turned into a full-blown migraine. Felt like many many carpenters constructing different pieces with massive hammers, working in fast-forward mode. Duum-Duum-Duum, went my brain. Ah, the agony! Checked my temperature, BP…and everything seemed fine. Only it wasn’t fine.
After taking paracetamol faithfully for a while and sleeping intermittently, I desperately searched the Internet for answers. Alas, it was part of coffee withdrawal symptoms. Funny enough I had more than five of the symptoms active. I realized I was to withdraw gradually.
Anyway I took their advice and took a cup of coffee, slept and woke up thirty minutes later, weak, but free from the migraine.
I had my morning coffee today. I shall wean myself off it gradually. What this taught me is coffee is indeed toxic and plays with our brains and bodies.
I’m going for peace of mind and a happy soul…the coffee’s gonna go.
Happy Aging😉!
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