Realization last night

[queenrobot]

Yesterday, I had a cup of coffee and some ice tea. I am used to drinking caffeine but lately have been trying to "ween" myself off of it.

Anyway, I laid down for bed at around 10pm and COULD NOT sleep. I had been up since 7am, and my body was tired but I just kept tossing and turning.

I think that is my cue to stop ingesting caffeine completely.


Anyone else experience this?

 

[irishScott]

Yeah, and I found the best way to quit was cold turkey. Just suck it in and endure the headaches for a few days. You'll feel awesome when it's over.

That said, 1 cup of coffee and ice tea shouldn't have that effect if you drank it earlier in the day unless you've already got something in your system. If you took it 3 hours or less before bed, then it'd probably have similar effect on anyone, although staying up all night while tired is a bit extreme.

 

[queenrobot]

Yeah, I don't know what the deal was. I drank the caffeine at least 4 hours before I laid down. I didn't have anything other than water in the last few hours before laying down.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

seeing online that it takes 10hrs to leave the body