Caffeine Addiction

I continually cycle on&#x2F;off caffeine when needed. I can usually drink about one coffee&#x2F;day and the positive effects will last about a month (hyper-focused, etc). After this, it no longer works. If I drink more than this, I start getting anxiety and have a hard time working and sometimes even going out to meet people.<p>So, I usually stop completely for a few weeks. This results in headaches, pains in my legs and sometimes arms for about a week.<p>After a few weeks, I can start again and the positive effects will continue.<p>When I was in high school, I didn&#x27;t think about my caffeine intake and would regularly drink a 2-litre of mountain dew&#x2F;day. I never understood why I had tons of anxiety....

I am one of the people who can experience painful withdrawal effects: upon significant disturbance of coffee intake amount(less)&#x2F;time after a few days at 3&#x2F;4 espressos a day, I would experience a painfull and incapacitating headache in the following 12 to 24 hours.<p>I tested it, yep, was coffee (did not test with another source of caffeine though). Had 100% &quot;success&quot; over a few tests.<p>It is vicious: I don&#x27;t need to &quot;stop&quot; drinking coffee to experience the headache, just need to disturb significantly the amount(less)&#x2F;time of intake.