As part of a general 'healthy living' week (aside from yesterday's carb overload) I decided to stop drinking coffee on Monday, slowly easing myself out with a nice cup o' earl grey tea. Tuesday morning - green tea with honey, mmm. Tuesday midday - complete exhaustion, could hardly move. Tuesday afternoon, the headache started, and boy was it a doozy! So after popping a few hundred headache pills I felt back on track and the evening went quite well.

I've realised now that was just the coffee pixies massing their forces for today's second assault. Yowch. They don't like it when you try and escape them... I've not been as sleepy today, but the headache is back with a vengence. So much so I got worried - until I read this site, where a whole pile of people list their symptoms. Dizziness, tiredness, crazy headaches and so on. Apparently knocking out caffeine severely lowers your blood pressure, which also explains why I felt really woozy the other day. Lovely.

The worst part is that this might go on for another 5 days or so! So apologies to everyone if I don't seem more cranky than usual. Will give you further updates as they happen. Or don't.

Labels: health, life lessons