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December 02, 2005

Cold Turkey

There's nothing quite like a nice cold turkey sandwich in the days following the Thanksgiving holiday, but going cold turkey is another matter entirely. This past Tuesday I inadvertently went cold turkey: on caffeine.

I'd been thinking to cut back on my intake of soft drinks. Not to replace them with harder stuff, mind you, but just to cut back on the caffeine and sugars. So on Monday I had lightened my intake slightly and had felt okay. Tuesday and the rest of the week were to follow the same lightened regimen. But I screwed up.

Tuesday: I went without soda at lunch, but planned on having a Coke later in the afternoon. However, when I later visited the soda machine, I found myself a nickel short; so no soda. I got distracted with work and forgot about it. Dinner didn't lend itself to a soda either. I opted for water. I wasn't exactly feeling well by this time (due to no caffeine :P) and drudged off to play computer games with the fami.

Right around the time I started to get thirsty again, I ate this cupcake thing (I will not call it food!) which was so sickly sweet that the last thing with which I wanted to wash its memory from my mouth was a sweetened, fizzy beverage. I again opted for water… and a toothbrush. Gah! That thing was nasty!

I go to bed late and wake up at 4:10 AM with a horrible migraine!

I medicate, miss work, sleep, medicate again, and try to generally ignore the pain. At 5:45 PM I am finally able to function like a normal person again.

So here I sit. Back at work. Bleh. The migraine is now just an ever-present headache. Yep, it's still there. I'm on the Cold Turkey Express and I'm not getting off (for a little while longer at least). Too bad we're out of turkey. Maybe the triptiphane would help me through this. :P

Posted by Tacitus at December 2, 2005 01:31 PM

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