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Posted: 8/24/2004 6:23:23 AM EDT

I am on my 4th cup for the morning! Can't seem to function as a normal person until I have had most of a pot of coffee.... what is this doing to my insides?

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:29:05 AM EDT

[#1]

Turning them black

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:29:27 AM EDT

[#2]

Raises your heart rate, and blood pressure a little bit, and can give you jitters bad breath.

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:31:27 AM EDT

[#3]

I never aquired the taste for it. I bet I haven't drank 6 cups of coffee in my whole 42 years. It smells great. It tastes like sheet.

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:31:46 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
I am on my 4th cup for the morning! Can't seem to function as a normal person until I have had most of a pot of coffee.... what is this doing to my insides?

don't know, when you work midnight shift like me, you gotta drink so much coffee to stay awake, you end up like Beavis ODing on sugar.
I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:31:49 AM EDT

[#5]

i have decaffeinated myself and can now see people moving in and out of the matrix.

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:35:36 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
I am on my 4th cup for the morning! Can't seem to function as a normal person until I have had most of a pot of coffee.... what is this doing to my insides?

Not much, really. What it's doing to your brain, well, that's something else. Studies have shown that while caffine makes people work faster, it also makes them sloppier, so the benefit isn't really there (you do a lot of a shitty job).

I'm trying to cut down on the stuff quite a bit now. I'm still going through withdraw, but it should get better eventually. The physical dependency is kind of scary.

Check this out:

home.howstuffworks.com/caffeine.htm

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:39:44 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Check this out:

home.howstuffworks.com/caffeine.htm

now that is some interesting reading! Looks like I am an addict...

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:42:18 AM EDT

[#8]

coffee good!

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:45:44 AM EDT

[#9]

I was on a tea(Earl Grey) kick for a couple years then found out that I had Fatty Liver Disease, come to find out that there is something in Coffee that'll help repair your liver so now I'm back to drinking coffee(2-24oz cups a day) and taking my Milk Thistel and I'm feeling fine. Not sure what my liver ensyems look like now but heck, somethings got to kill ya'. LOL Anyway, as long as you're not having a problem with the caffinee in the coffee I wouldn't worry too much.

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:48:36 AM EDT

[#10]

Never have acquired a taste for it, outside of an occasional frappucino (sp?) that my wife will get me
at Starbucks. She's always, "I wish you would learn to like coffee, so there'd be somebody else in
the house that drinks it." Still haven't figured out why though.... I set up the coffeemaker for her
before I go to work, so it goes off abt the time she gets up, and according to her, I can make great
coffee. I just can't stand it unless it has so much sugar & cream in it, that it's a 'What's the point?'
type of thing. Even after 8+ years in the service.......

And there are times that the smell of it can almost make me nauseous. I guess it's the type or
something.

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:49:28 AM EDT

[#11]

On the very first day God made a pot of coffee.

Caffine is GOOD for you. If I could have my blood replaced with coffee I would..

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Sgtar15.

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Posted: 8/24/2004 6:50:26 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
And there are times that the smell of it can almost make me nauseous. I guess it's the type or
something.

My wife hates the smell of it too, I usually have to wait until she leaves for work before I start firing up the coffee maker....

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:54:19 AM EDT

[#13]

I used to be an addict. 6-8 cups per day. I quit cold turkey (bad idea, massive headaches which could have been avoided by tapering off). Now I sleep much much better and have more energy during the day.

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:55:35 AM EDT

[#14]

Talking about coffee....

www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=267223

Sgtar15

Posted: 8/24/2004 7:01:29 AM EDT

[#15]

I am up to about 10 cups a day, but I always cut off my intake by noon or it keeps me up at night. I acquired a taste for it while in the army pulling all night duty. I take it hot and black. I can't stand it with sugar or cream, and I don't like the fancy "gourmet" brands either.

It gets me moving in the morning and keeps me moving. I am unsure of any benefits, but I know this much: I get severe headaches if I go with out it.

There is also the social interaction; the short BS sessions in the morning over a cup of coffee with my employees before we dive into our work.

Yes, I am addicted to it.

Posted: 8/24/2004 7:04:09 AM EDT

[#16]

My doc has told me to stay away from coffee as much as I can.
The caffeine is killing my stomach.

I've cut it down to about 2 or 3 cups a day! Woo Hoo!

Posted: 8/24/2004 7:05:27 AM EDT

[#17]

I stopped drinking coffee about a year ago after having drank it since I was 8. That would have been 36 years. I thought it was coffee that was making me feel funky when I'd drive but I subsequently discovered it was nicotine saturation from dipping Skoal.

I've recently started up (again) drinking green tea and I'm "weaning" myself back into caffeinated coffee-I have been drinking decaf for about a year.

A little caffeine is supposed to be good for you and even when I did drink coffee I usually only had 2-3 cups a day, but I know people-like my brother-that drink the stuff all day and function just fine. Hell, he can drink a cup of coffee at 9:00PM and go to bed at 10. I'd be up until 3.

I quit drinking coffee and dipping within a week of one another. WHAT A HELLISH TIME.

But now I'm glad I did it.

Posted: 8/24/2004 7:06:02 AM EDT