Thursday TeaDay 4/02/09 Caffeine WD?

[tea-guy]

Since I switched from soda and cofee to tea almost full-time... I no longer have caffeine withdrawals.

[kymidwife]

I answered Not Really, but I can't honestly say for sure because I don't remember the last time I went more than a few waking hours without some tea. When I go all day without tea, I want it because I miss the flavor and pleasure of drinking it, but I don't really get headaches or crankiness (my coworkers might disagree?).

Margaret's Hope White Darjeeling FF 2009 in my cup... reallllly good. I am in love with Darjeeling.

Sarah

[teachaite]

Good morning! The rain here in Boston is really taking a toll on me. Thank heaven for a warm cup of tea.
Drinking Jasmine Oolong with a little Six Summits Oolong mixed in.

As for caffeine...I feel like the caffeine in tea does not effect me the way it does in coffee. Before I started drinking as much tea as I do I was drinking 4-6 2-3 shot lattes a day. I stopped drinking Caffeine all together for 7 days and I had the worst headache I have ever had. I was in bed for all of those seven days. On the eight day I had a latte in the morning and the rest of the day drank tea.

And thats pretty much what I do now. I love coffee and I have to have it in the morning. Two cups black when I wake up, a latte when I leave the house...and then about 10 cups of tea through the day.

[murrius]

Muscari and Narcissi

Thank you for the photos from your garden. Where I am it snowed again last night. Just looking at your picture warmed me up!

[brlarson]

I don't get headaches but I do get cravings, especially since I started with the Japanese greens -- but that's probably just a coincidence.

I broke down and opened Ippodo's Kaboku sencha last night. It's amazing how dramatically its astringency changes as you change the brewing temp. You can dial in a range of tastes depending on your mood from fat smooth and rich (140F), to balanced richness and crispness (160F), up to lean with almost a tree bark kind of bitterness (176F). And the leaves are really beautiful. I'll have to spend more time with this one.

Upton's Spring Dragon in my cup this morning.

[murrius]

I sometimes miss my morning or evening tea but don't have any physical symptoms from it. I do have a sense of loss but it passes. I drink black tea in the evening without it effecting my sleep. However, if I am dragging myself around at work mid afternoon I do have a cuppa and it perks me up.

This morning - BANCHA!!!!

[auggy]

Nope, not really, at least not from tea. I was addicted to caffeine via coffee many years ago, which lead to about 6 years being totally decaf. Ironically, when I got a heart arrhythmia, I started drinking caffeine again (cardiologist kept giving me grumpy looks but ultimately things turned out just fine and it ended up being a good thing but that's another story). Now the only symptom I get when I don't have my morning tea is a general fogginess that lasts longer than normal, but that's no so much from the caffeine as it is from not having the overall tea experience - even low caffeine teas perk me up in the morning.

Vanilla orchid this morning. My medication + slightly strong tea is making my hands shake. But they were shaking before the tea so I'm putting most of the blame on the meds.

[Cinnamon Kitty]

I don't think that I get an caffeine withdrawal symptoms. I am not a morning person so I am naturally rather foggy when I am forced to get up in the morning. Tea helps to unfog me, but very rarely do I get headaches from lack of caffeine. I do get irritated if I don't have tea though that is more of a personal preference that a withdrawal symptom.

My teacup is currently empty and I am still deciding on what to steep.

[Katrina]

Not with tea. I was in a coffee phase for awhile and started noticing headaches if I didn't have it. I never have this problem with tea.

Right now I'm drinking Earl Grey Cream in the midst of a very grey day...April showers and all...

[Chip]

I noticed that if I sleep in really late, BAM, headache. I have a headache til I drink tea and it goes away pretty quickly. So, if my morning caffeine dose is 3-4 hours late, I get a headache. I am not sure about any other symptoms since I have tea every single day.

Started the TeaDay with Takumi sencha from Zencha. It was quite excellent today. SweeTea would agree. Pyrit was just concerned with head and belly rubs.

[olivierco]

No.

Kanro gyokuro in a few minutes.

[geeber1]

I try to avoid those pesky withdrawal headaches by keeping a steady supply of caffeine flowing through my system at all times.

I do get them, but not as bad as when I was a diet soda only drinker. I also don't get jittery with tea the way I used to with soda.

This morning at home I had some Adagio Cinnamon for a change of pace. At work I'm enjoying some Nilgiri Glendale.

[Smari]

My withdrawal symptoms include: grogginess, zombie-like movements. And headaches

This morning, ginger peach oolong from Zhi tea. yum.

[Intuit]

"I noticed that if I sleep in really late, BAM, headache."

Sounds like mild low blood sugar. Caffeine helps. If you feel faintly nauseous as well, that would be a stronger indicator of this problem.

I don't seem to have many symptoms of caffeine withdrawal, but too much can play havoc with sleep quality. I've never been a coffee lover, either.

Keemun Supreme this morning, leftover sencha later on.

[Victoria]

In my work cup:
Yulan Dancong from Red Circle Tea
Quite unremarkable; wishing for more of my morning Darjeeling.