coffee
 

Waves,


:hug::hug:
I do not understand the decaf.
My perception is that it is barely in the same family as coffee.
At most it is a fifth cousin twice removed.


Ice-cream in coffee. :) :circlelove:
I could get on board with that.

Mari

Do you like Vanilla Ice cream in a Coke a cola. If you have never tried it,you don't know what you are missing. I haven't had it in around five years,but it's good. BF:hug::hug::hug:

Isn't that called a float? I tried it -- can enjoy it once in a while. In general it isn't something I seek out -- too sweet. I think I had it with cream soda once, and with coke once.

Now icecream dowsed with coffee I could do. Unsweeetened coffee though.
THAT is goooooood. I useed to do this when I lived in the US:
-- Brew coffee, sometimes adding ground cinnamon to the filter, or using flavored beans (eg. swiss-almond) beans.
-- Half my normal sugar.
-- Large scoop of Breyer's Natural Vanilla Ice Cream (no milk or cream).
-- Drop (about half a shot) of Bahamian coconut rum.

Very yummy.

Right now I am having plain undecorated, undowsed icecream... usually once a day. (Yeah, I know, but so far I'm not gaining weight so who cares. D:rolleyes:)

Coffee, again plain, I have throughout the day.

Separate.

With the Neurontin I'm having about twice as much coffee as usual. The Neurontin does seem, to help which tends to confirm that this is a nerrve thing. Unfortunately it's also making me sleepy and giving me general woozy, googly feelings when it peaks. For now, I'm appreciating the reduction in the fizzy symptoms. The coffee helps a bit with the wooziness.

I will answer more later. It's too hard right now. My mom keeps trying to talk to me and I keep being, like "Whuhh?" We were trying to work out what moviee to see. Not sure how I will watch tv. It is on and I see that people move their mouths and sounds come out. They talk fast and move on even if I didn't understand or spaced. I am supposed to connect the sounds, relate different sounds sequences, form an idea, and do this fast enough to catch more of the sounds and movements to connect ideas. Brain is not happening fast enough to do all that, at their pace.

I am going to do something semi-mindless where I can set the pace. :o

waves

Yep. Are you talking about Gabapentin? That is my experience as well.

M

:highfive: That's the one! :o

It usually gets easier on me but I dove in at 1200 mg/day :rolleyes: so it takes a bit of getting used to.

I actually decided to try only 900 mg, spacing it out by 8 hours... 300mg, every 8 hours. I suspect this will not be enough... with the last dosee I started having sx again. But if they are milder and the fogginess is less, I'll take that for now.

I only have enough for a few more days. If my doctor doesn't agree with my using it I will be SOL after that. I hope to persuade him to let me have it as a palliative untiil they figure this out.

Neurontin is the brand name -- I used it way back but actually take generic now.

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I unwittingly drank too much coffee today/yesterday :o ==> I have slept a little, so even though it is just 3 am it is kind of tomorrow for me. Oh, that was clear as mud :rolleyes:... I mean that "now" feels a day later than when I had dinner. ;)

The coffee. I kept drinking coffee in an attempt to remain a bit more wakeful ==> I ended up feeling simultaneously strung out from the coffee and goofy from the gabapentin. Note to self: count cups tomorrrow, space it out and no more than 4. I'm not sure how many I had today. Maybe 6.

waves

I've never had a dentist explain it, but I've come across it in recent readings. Quite scary, really, so I'm trying not to think about it. Lots of people have major dental surgery and do not have problems.

Hehe, yes. And I will have to remember this when my dad's everyone's-out-to-get-hhim syndrome acts up. Grrrr, damn stupid letter-doubling keyboard.


Good for you. Later, I felt stupid that I had sat there and bothered to attempt rational conversation with him while letting him abuse my mouth.

Interesting. Right! I agree!
And if it's some kind of niche philosophy, thosee thinkers can stay in their niche -- away from us, thank you very much -- and bang on each other's teeth! :rolleyes:
:Soapbox:

:D Right! He told me just to stop by to show him the cat (no appointment and no charge), so it will be a brief and informal meeting: I am "safe" from copious writings this time. :winky::cool: If he has an idea of dx, or suggestion for further referral, I might request that he give me a note for my GP, though.
Excellent characterization! :cool:

waves

hi
am away from home for 2 weeks
this computer is missing the letters from the key board so am trusting my memory to type.
hope you get some answers to your liking.
(((((hugs )))))))
bizi

Thanks for the wishes Bizi. :) Have fun, wherever you are. :hug:

Sorry.
I brought it up because nerves can heal.

I do not study this stuff but maybe they often heal.

M

Yeah. That is big way to start.
That combined with the good amount of caffeine must have been a fun day.

My old pdoc said that Gabapetin only helps with nerve pain at 600 mgs.
It is not useful at higher doses -- or some such.
But he was a pessimistic by nature. He also distrusted people.(Maybe they are the same thing.)
I am off on a tangent any way so here goes. He served on review boards. When something went wrong, he was on a team that looked into it. So he was up to date on standard procedure and such.
That is when he told me to never see a nurse practitioner or PA and that MDs who hire them are practicing bad medicine.
I happened to dislike the four or five PA's I saw, but think I would be o.k. with a ARNP because they come from a different medical model.
The PAs' medicine was probably o.k. but their manner was mostly awful.



And HELLO. He was willing to prescribe Gabepentin for my bipolar even though, according to research, it does not work for bipolar.

When I am trying to keep track of things like how many 8 oz glasses I had a day, I write tally marks on a sheet of paper or white board. Because, really, doesn't every glass of water look the same?
Maybe you need to line up empty coffee cups.


M