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01-11-2012, 06:40 PM | #1 | ||
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I know alcohol is a really bad idea dealing with PCS, but is coffee a bad idea too? It seems like a caffeine buzz is something you'd want to avoid, but I'm having a hard time going without it but I'm scared to have any. Does anyone else have trouble with coffee or received advice not to have any?
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01-11-2012, 07:23 PM | #2 | ||
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From the reading I've done, experts recommend that people recovering from or dealing with tbi stay away from a lot of caffeine. Although one cup of something caffeinated is considered to be ok.
I drink a cup of tea in the morning. Whenever I've tried to drink a cup after 12p or so, or had more than one cup, it really messed with my sleep in a bad way. I tend to get much worse cognitively when I'm tired so I've learned the hard way to not have more than one cup a day and to not drink it past noon. |
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01-12-2012, 12:43 AM | #3 | ||
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What is the 'hard time' you are having going without coffee?
Is it just a habit or do you rely on the caffeine to wake up?
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01-12-2012, 07:49 AM | #4 | ||
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I drink one cup of coffee every morning. No problems for me.
Drinking it all day long or even multiple cups a day might be a problem - too much stimulation for our PCS brains.
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01-12-2012, 10:10 AM | #5 | ||
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Just lack of focus, before PCS made EVERYTHING 100x times it's importance and supremely distracting. I don't know if that makes sense. :/ But I have ADD too and coffee was usually a simple stimulus to help me perk up and focus on achieving my goals through the day. And I have a really hard time getting motivated in the morning. So both. I know it SEEMED like once I had too much espresso and hard a pretty bad dizzy spell for a couple of days. But I'm trying to figure out if this is my imagination or if I'm blaming the wrong thing.
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01-12-2012, 10:52 AM | #6 | ||
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