Rough Day

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Veronica,
Hope you feel better soon! Sounds like a real drag....
Try to not BLOW your nose- it just irritates it and causes it to create MORE mucus to try to protect itself. Just squeeze your nose gently with the tissue, or blow gently without squeezing your nostrils closed while you blow. Hard to do, but it will let your nose start healing.

Why not make the coffee change in two steps rather than cold turkey? Buy equal amounts of caff and decaff and mix them together and use that for a couple of weeks before making the final switch. Those caffeine withdrawal headaches are PAINFUL and needless.
DH and I reached a compromise in our house- he loves regular caffeine coffee, but it was making me too jittery. So we always mix them half and half as a compromise. Coffee is always 1/2 caffeinated at our house, it works well for both of us. I get organic freshly ground at the health food store and have them mix it right there for me.

Feel better....and remember that SLEEP is the greatest healer of all.

[roguedog]

hope nyquil did its magic last night. here's to free breathing and lots of rest!

[Veronica]

Feeling much better today - not 100%. Gonna take another day off the bike , won't get to ride tomorrow either since I'm helping to interview for a new teaching position. Sometimes life gets in the way...

V.

[Offthegrid]

I stopped drinking caffeinated beverages for the most part last month, and it was a tough week with a lot of headaches. If you can go more gradually, it'd probably help.

Now it just stinks if I go out to eat or something because I have to choose between a diet soda with caffeine, a high-calorie soda without caffeine or water (which I drink a ton of already so gets boring). And of course the Gu I already own has caffeine in it.