What doesn’t kill you makes you want stronger coffee.
Charlotte Gomez for BuzzFeed
Hello, my name is Erin, and I'm addicted to caffeine (in particular, coffee).
I started drinking tea when I was 8 — my mom is very Irish, so a cup every day was normal — and by the time I got into middle school, I'd have coffee every morning. I was a little caffeine addict at the tender age of 12.
Since then, I can't remember a day when I've gone without coffee. I only wake up in the morning because there's coffee there, and I let it lull me back to life each afternoon at work when I really need it most. A typical day for me is two to three cups of the stuff, and I would drink more if I could.
But turns out, I can't have coffee, or caffeine. I recently discovered that I have an ulcer, and of all the things I temporarily have to give up (red wine, chocolate, tomatoes), coffee is by far the hardest one for me.
So since I ~had~ to follow the doctors' orders, this is my tale of the horrible, excruciating pain of the first week without coffee.
1. I could not, under any circumstances, have caffeine — including, but not limited to, coffee, tea, soda, espresso, or those tasty chocolate coffee beans.
2. I could have herbal tea, which has zero caffeine.
3. I could also smell or gaze upon coffee, just no touching.
Charlotte Gomez for BuzzFeed
Day 1: When my caffeine withdrawal shut down my entire body.
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