Giving up/reducing coffee intake

waves · 06-21-2014, 02:29 PM

I am having a hissy fit.

No, I am having an EP version of the mother of all hissy fits.

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAGHHHHHHHGHHHHAHRRRHHHHHGHGHHHH! !!!!

I have been hissy-fitting for the past maybe 6 hours. A few of those I was asleep (inadvertently dropped off after the beer had right at gabapentin peak.

). So you'd think sleep would nix a hissy fit, right? Wrong! Right back where I was emotionally when I woke up.

It isn't about the coffee or the reflu or the gabapentin, directly. But kind of indirectly. We are having food fights, so to speak. Mom is trying to be nice and her version of nice is making me stuff or buying me stuff or suggesting stuff for me to eat that I am not intterested in. Also with the sleep/coffee being a mess, I dont' like to have to commit to being awake for food right now, and I don't want to have to commit to eating any specific thing.

Result: I feel presssured, and kind of fenced in, and that upsets me.

Tomorrow is a special occasion. I should be happy instead all I can think is there's more food pressure, and how the hell am I going to be able to eat all the salmon for dinner. It's filling and I can't seem to handle a normal-sized meal (my normal is already small).

waves

waves · 06-21-2014, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Mari

Waves,

The "observe" part was what I saw.
Thanks for explaining that you want to observe better.
I understand that observing is easier than limiting.

The obseerving wa already there... but not written. I wrote it in so I can "get credit for it" if that makes sense.

There, I grinned. I am trying to bootstrap myself into a good mood somehow. I need to work myself into a good mood by tomorrow.

Mari · 06-21-2014, 07:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by waves

I am having a hissy fit.

No, I am having an EP version of the mother of all hissy fits.

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAGHHHHHHHGHHHHAHRRRHHHHHGHGHHHH! !!!!

Waves,

That's an intense hissy fit --- go to sleep, wake up, and hissy fit is still there!!

Oh and I only have curse words thinking about when someone starts making food suggestions. !! (My mom used to do it but not very often. She was too self-involved)

Quote:

Result: I feel presssured, and kind of fenced in, and that upsets me.

That majorly stinks. Sorry you are upset.

The post was nonspecific so I had to laugh when you mentioned the thought of eating the salmon.

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and how the hell am I going to be able to eat all the salmon for dinner.

Feel better, man. I don't know how. But feel better.
Know that I thinking about you.

Mari

Mari · 06-21-2014, 09:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brokenfriend

From regular doctors,to allergy doctors,they do not comprehend. They cannot seem to get it. They do not understand. No one at anytime seems to comprehend the deepness of this issue. I've given up on having this understood. They don't get it,but it's a real problem for me. I've never heard anyone say that they have the same thing. It just launches misunderstandings,and I guess that they think that it's a mild problem,or that I'm exaggerating. I'm not. It's a very serious problem,and I guess that no one will ever understand. It may be irritated by my mental health issues,or maybe that's a part of it. I sure don't know.

When I was getting help with my allergy shots,the insurance companies brought a end to them. Then the medication that helped me with allergies was stopped being made,and I'm trying to figure out how to help myself with these over the counter medications.

I think that my throat,down to my lungs is a very sensitive(Supersensitive)area. I started having these problems when I was about twenty. It affects my ears to. They get congested at the same time. Then they start to pop,and get better after a while. My chest gets conjested,but I cough it out until the episode calms down.

Saltine crackers help me with my throat,and has helped with these attacks.
If I am having a allergy attack in the car,I steam up the windows,so I have to roll down the windows in the Winter until the whatever subsides. I use to get red circles of redness on my face,and neck. Sometimes there would be red areas on my chest. That went away when I stopped drinking alcohol.

Thanks for caring. It's another problem that I have that I,and no one understands. BF

Dear Steve,

That is good that the saltine crackers work.

It is one battle after another to get could care.

I wish you were better.

Mari

waves · 06-21-2014, 10:17 PM

Thanks Mari.

I am doing better.

I got distracted enough... gaiined some mental distance between me and stuff.

I will need to get some sleep. Hang on to your hat and talk to you soon.

waves

waves · 06-22-2014, 06:39 PM

Coffee log for 6/22:

-- 2 cups sl.weaker (rounded tsp/ 1.5 level tsp).
-- 2/3 cup sl.weaker, level tsp.

== Total: 2.5 cups / ~ 4.5 level tsp.

-----------------
Recent/typical consumption, for comparison:

-- 1 typical cup: strongish, ~2 tsp (1 more or less heaping tsp.)

== Total: 4 cups / ~8 level tsp, per day

waves · 06-22-2014, 06:59 PM

Observations and gabapentin:

The nose/burning drip and corner-of-mouth/palate/tounge sx come and go -- hard to peg any association. I screwed up the gabapentin today (12 hours between doses) so that confuses things even more.

I did have sx on a 300mg q8h regime. I am supposed to be trying a q6h regime again, but screwed up, am trying to do a little loading/catch up:

I took 2 doses 6 hrs apart yesterday.
Then skipped 12 hours, took 400 mg tonight at 6, then another 400 mg at 1.20 am.

I am to resume at 300 mg at 6 or 7 am, depending whether I can force myself to sleep at night.

waves

Mari · 06-23-2014, 01:38 AM

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QUOTE=waves;1077449]
Observations and gabapentin:

The nose/burning drip and corner-of-mouth/palate/tounge sx come and go -- hard to peg any association. I screwed up the gabapentin today (12 hours between doses) so that confuses things even more.

I did have sx on a 300mg q8h regime. I am supposed to be trying a q6h regime again, but screwed up, am trying to do a little loading/catch up:

I took 2 doses 6 hrs apart yesterday.
Then skipped 12 hours, took 400 mg tonight at 6, then another 400 mg at 1.20 am.

I am to resume at 300 mg at 6 or 7 am, depending whether I can force myself to sleep at night.

waves[/QUOTE]

Oh. I almost missed the update.
Good for logging.

Hope you feel better at some point.

Lara · 06-23-2014, 03:39 PM

Throwing a couple of other thoughts your way, waves.

I'm trying to follow your train of thought and the last post regarding the Gabapentin threw me off.

Are you thinking the Gabapentin is causing some issues?

Quote:

I did have sx on a 300mg q8h regime. I am supposed to be trying a q6h regime again, but screwed up, am trying to do a little loading/catch up:

I understand you were trying to catch up but why were you taking 400mg of Gabapentin at 1.20 in the morning? Wouldn't that keep you awake?

waves · 06-23-2014, 05:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lara

Are you thinking the Gabapentin is causing some issues?

No. I am taking gabapentin for the prickling oro-naso-facial sx, which are thought to be of nervous origin.

I am not having sx due to gabapentin.
It merely failed to work at the lower dosaage/frequency

Hence the need to return to my typical dosing scheme.

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I understand you were trying to catch up but why were you taking 400mg of Gabapentin at 1.20 in the morning?

The time is qquite normal.

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Woudn't that keep you awake?

LOL, no, if anything at all it makes me sleepy. That effect lessens as I get used to it.

Hope that clears things up.

I've taken gabapentin before at 1200mg a day for migraine prophylaxis so I'm quite familiar with it.

I am aware of a possible issue with the reflux due to its mechanism of action. The doctor said it was fine (he might not be aware). In regards to that I'm being vigilant. A palliative for the prickling is very desirable at this point, so I hope it does work for that, and give no problems otherwise.

waves

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