RE: I'm So Sorry To Say...😭😭😭

I had to give up caffeine a few years back. I didn't drink coffee, but I drank cola a few times a week and tea like an English woman 😆every hour on the hour at work lol... and at one stage was drinking a couple of red bulls a day to chase the sun during a time of extreme work stress. At first, my eyelids started twitching when I would drink tea from the machine at work. I was convinced there was something wrong with the machine. But then I started getting heart palpitations and panic attacks and my doctor said he thought I had developed a sensitivity to caffeine (i happen to think it was a combination of excessive caffeine intake for my body together with hormonal issues). I dropped the red bulls, the cola, and the tea, opting only for decaf tea. I went through headache withdrawals and things stabilised a little. But then when I would on rare occasions have a couple of cups of regular tea with caffeine... It would start all over again with an elevated heart rate. My doc said... Did you cut out caffeine? Yep, I said... Altogether? Yep! Noooo he said... have a little each day because having none means that you will now become more sensitive to it than you were before! Now I don't know how true this is, but I started drinking a healthier version of cola called Green Cola - one a day to get some caffeine in my system. And it helped. Now I have a little balance of having something to kick me when I am tired at night but want to be awake a bit longer... and I don't suffer from palpitations... granted... I am now on HRT patches too... but I know for sure that the reduction in caffeine saved my life first... and HRT rescued me all over again. I hope you find the perfect balance for you. The side effects of too much caffeine in our diet are not to be sneezed at... at now I have a new fabulous friend... Oat Chai Latte! Smitten! !LUV !hivebits