The people who say they need 3 cups of black coffee to start their day are just addicts with a high tolerance that experience mild withdrawal symptoms each morning.

If you feel like that, it’s your body crying for you to take a break.

If you like an occasional cup of coffee or energy drink to get through something, then that’s fine. But if you ever feel like one isn’t working like it used to, you should take a break from caffeine to reset your tolerance, not up the dosage like an addict.

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      8 months ago

      It’s a double whammy too because occasionally I’ll just get bored of coffee and drop it, then a few days later I’m wondering why I have a gnarly headache.

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      8 months ago

      That is a whole other problem with the medical care that I’m not ready to cope with.

      Do your best not to build a tolerance if you can! Your poor kidneys will thank you.

      (But if it’s working it’s probably super hard to take tolerance breaks)

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        8 months ago

        Take tolerance breaks for mental disorders? Are you actually insane?

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        I make sure not to overdo it because too much coffee gives me major heartburn, so I guess I have a built-in dosage limit. And luckily I don’t have terrible withdrawal symptoms if I miss a dose.

        But it’s definitely better than the 2 liters of Coke I drank every day in high school.

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          8 months ago

          Your post is idiotic. 2L of coca cola is two cups of coffee so your nonsense tale is meaningless

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            Completely unnecessary, and you shouldn’t blame the other person because you didn’t understand their point.

            Two cups of coffee is a significantly healthier choice than 2L of coca cola. That was obviously the point they were making. There’s no need to jump down their throat about it, and it’s telling that you jump to that over something relatively innocuous.