I feel recovered from caffeine withdrawal symptoms ;) It was a hard week. Even I just drunk one or two mostly one cup of coffee a day. Sometimes Japanese green tea in addition. Ja but I did it almost for 30 years. Probably this long time intake made the symptoms worse.
Here I write down what happened to me:
- Day 1: I feel my body heavy and sleepy.
- Day 2: Sleep through until morning. Headache starts. I find a cheating technique to use chocolate to relieve the headache ;) Some muscle sore around thighs. 2 hours of nap.
- Day 3: 10 hours of sleep + 1 hour of nap. Headache gets better. Pain relive with ice cream ;) A glass of wine (big mistake!).
- Day 4: 11 hours of sleep + 2 hours of nap. Dizziness comes. I couldn't stand up in the morning time. Is it because of the wine yesterday??
- Day 5: 8 hours of sleep + 1.5 hours of nap. Dizziness gets better but still hard in the day time but gone in the night time. Some muscle sore around thighs and hip.
- Day 6: 7.5 hours of sleep +1.5 hours of nap. Small dizziness remains but feeling better! Still some sore muscle.
- Day 7: 8 hours of sleep (no nap). A bit dizzy but away better. I think I'm in the end of the caffeine withdrawal process. Half glass of beer as my partner bought a bottle for dinner ...
Looking back the process, the second to fifth day was quite physically hard. The headache was the strongest one I had in my life. Dizziness was tough too. It was like morning sickness.
Some people recommend to take one week off from work for caffeine withdrawal. Now I can agree with them. If you were lucky you don't have any symptoms but if you were not ..... it's too tough to work 8 hours with the pain. Or reduce the caffeine amount gradually is an option too.
Anyway I don't want to experience the pain anymore. So I may have coffee for social purpose once or twice a month but quit drinking it as a morning routine. I still eat chocolate though ;)
カフェインが断てたようです。6日目の昨日あたりからすっきりして、今日も大丈夫そうなので。一日コーヒー1、2杯とはいえ30年くらい続けた習慣ですからおそろしいですね、、、途中数日の頭痛とめまいはもう二度と経験したくありません！！
せっかくなので一週間の記録を残しておこうと思います。
- 1日目: 体が重くてだるいのは気温のせいなのか、カフェインが入っていないからなのか・・・。
- 2日目: 夜はぐっすり朝まで寝られたけれど頭が痛い。チョコでやり過ごす。筋肉痛？昼寝2時間。一応まだ動ける。
- 3日目: 10時間寝て昼寝1時間。頭痛は昨日よりはまし。アイスを食べてワイン1杯。
- 4日目: 11時間寝て昼寝2時間。朝からめまいがきつくて午前中は立つのもやっと。頭痛よりもつらいかも。昨日のワインのせいなのか。
- 5日目: 8時間寝て昼寝1時間半。めまいがちょっと改善。頭を上げ下げすると依然くらくら。足腰筋肉痛のようなムズムズ。夜はめまいがおさまる。
- 6日目: 7.5時間寝て昼寝1時間半。だいぶん調子がいい？めまいは午前中少し残っていて、腰から太ももにかけて筋肉痛。
- 7日目: 8時間寝て昼寝なし。ちょっとくらっとすることはあるものの生活の支障なし。カフェイン抜けたかな。ビール半分。
せっかくすっきりしたので、今後しばらくコーヒーはお友だちとカフェにいった時など社交目的で月に1-2回程度とゆるくカフェインレス生活をしようと思います。
カフェイン断ちをしたいと思う人は、少し休暇をとるとよいかもしれません。いろいろな体験記でも勧められていますし、もし離脱症状が激しくなければのんびりすればいいし ;)
そんなこんなのカフェイン断ちでした。健康増進計画の1ステップを終えて、次はアルコールを減らしつつ（日々晩酌はしない程度）、子どものお迎えで片道歩いて平日10000歩を目指します。
As it was nice to be at SteemFest last year and would like to support participants this year, 50% of my reward goes to 
Half of my reward goes to SteemFest Travel Reimbursement Fund / SteemFestの旅費サポートプログラムに報酬の半分を寄付します