Don't drink caffeine.

Drink caffeine.

Don't drink caffeine.

Drink caffeine.

Don't drink caffeine.

Drink caffeine.

This is the story of my life!

I wonder IF this could be in the formative years...I didn't drink much if ANY caffeine then. And I would feel much less guilty about letting my little Dr Pepper lovers endulge!!!

Usually at my new doctors office: Starbucks !

But, more often then not, I get my fix from the local AMPM gas station where it is half of the price (kinda like a generic med for DMD's).

I've been hit by lightning!

Well, it was a glancing blow. I was in my garage (which has a cement floor with metal rebar in the cement) and this blast of lightning came down and hit the street light across the street from our house.

I was wearing my hair in a pony tail, and at the same time the bolt hit the street light there was a burning pain in the side of my head and I saw a little flash to my right (inside the garage!). The pony tail holder was the type that had a piece of metal holding the rubber band together. I had a burn on the side and back of my head for a week or two. It hurt a lot.

I think I'm lucky that all it did was burn the side of my head next to where the pony tail holder was. (oh, and it burned my hair...yuck! smell of burned hair is gross!)

I think what happened was that I was standing in some water that had puddled just inside our garage, and I was standing on cement with metal rebar in it. Somehow the electricity traveled from that bolt, either thru the ground, or it was attracted by the metal in the floor or the metal in my hairband. It could even have been regular static electricity. Freak accident stuff...scared the crap out of me when it happened.

Generic caffeine..You crack me up..

Let me get this straight, you drank all of that this morning but are blaiming MS for bladder trouble? I'm not sure I'd get very far from the urinal after drinking that much. I'd have to just go sit down in the stall with a newspaper waiting for the flood.

In all seriousness, caffeine does help my headaches. Every year for Lent, I give up caffeine long enough to get over the addicition withdrawl (used to give it up for all of Lent) just to make sure that my headaches aren't from the caffeine. Once I know the caffeine isn't causing hte headaches, I go back to my 1-3 cokes a day. Gotta say, I'm a fan of the coke zero products, especially cherry coke zero

LOL. I was kidding about the tea. There is no way I could drink that much tea without getting such a buzz that it would make me a nervous wreck as well as have a huge blood sugar drop and an increase in tremors. Of course that in itself brings up another point.

Does anyone notice a difference in how they react with different sources of caffeine? For me 1 cup of tea effects me more than 2 cups of coffee. If I know that I really need to be on top of things in the afternoon, I will have a coke and that helps quite a bit.

Bird - I think you also brought up a good point. Is it during the formative years? The article does say prevent MS. We already have it so where does that leave one who already has it. They did discuss using this research to come up with meds but is that possibly a vaccine? It would be interesting to see which way this research goes and what becomes of it.

I bet it is the formative years and we all had mean depriving parents, who wouldn't let us drink coke and Dr. Pepper, or coffee or tea!!! LOL

We need to form a club....

Oh yeah .... we already did!!! :P

So, if I tell a lie and say the famous "Strike me is I am lying but substitute Jim's name he may walk again?

*tracking next storm*

Seriously, that is a cool story Becky! Electricity and MS, there is something to that.