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Looks like I scheduled this wrong and the Tuesday and Wednesday posts both went out at once. Oh, well. Enjoy hearing from me entirely too much today.

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Nov 22, 2022Liked by James Breakwell

My heart likes to jump around with too much caffeine, which is totally unpleasant, so I limit coffee and sodas. The sleep/no sleep didn't seem to be an issue for me when I had them more often. Lola's right - when those weird effects are noticeable, it's time to choose otherwise.

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Can she see sound and the future yet? 😆 After all my years in the airlines, I'm pretty much immune to caffeine. "Airlines run on coffee, jet fuel, and rumors."

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When Red Bull was just getting popular about 15 yrs ago... they gave out free samples at work.. I was so jittery.. i drove my coworker nuts. Tmtried making her go for a walk around the building

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When I was younger I could, and did, drink every caffeine beverage I could get my hands on with little affect. Now? I cup of real coffee in the morning and decaf ice tea the rest of the day. I can’t abide anything with bubbles. Weird how your taste buds change, but they do.

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Tell her I relate. I had a Red Bull once, because it was free. It melted the 'off' switches for speech in my brain, so for the next four hours or so I DID NOT SHUT UP. Now I'm at the point where I can't eat chocolate after 5pm, or it'll keep me awake. It's a sad state of affairs.

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Caffeine is my drug of choice. If I don't have coffee first thing in the morning, I might as well be a dog!

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I tried an energy drink once and thought my heart was going to explode cuz of how fast my heart was beating. Caffeine in coffee has a different effect on me. I once had coffee at a training and the carafe was marked decaf. It was not. 10-15 minutes after drinking it, I had to run to the restroom. My body rejects it almost immediately and exits as fast as I drink it.

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OMG, I can totally relate to Lola! I accidentally had a huge caffeinated iced tea at lunch one day 30 years ago...and had to go home from work early - I couldn’t speak, couldn’t think, and the walls were twinkling (was I seeing time?). I went home and to bed in the middle of the afternoon! I have never had a cup of coffee, don’t like most soda (and what I drink isn’t caffeinated), and don’t really drink tea. Caffeine terrifies me!!

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I suffered from migraines for years and tried every imaginable medication. Some doctors said caffeine would cause them, other doctors said a jolt of caffeine would help alleviate them. I don't drink coffee or soda but always had iced tea. The caffeine in the tea or meds would make my heart race and I'd be so jittery I couldn't even sign my name. These days I only have tea in restaurants and drink only decaf tea or seltzer (or wine) at home. I feel Lola's pain.

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Most caffeine doesn't bother me. Never really keeps me up, but coffee can have a little more impact than tea. I don't get jittery. It doesn't even raise my heart rate. I kinda wish caffeine would wake me up more, but I think my blood type is sweet tea.

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