“Any particular reason you've come off?”
Yeah, I have been completely out of control with it since the wife went in back in January, basically addicted. I could not do anything without first firing up my cns. My creativity had gone down the toilet, and I really did not feel like doing anything what so ever. Had to force myself to do the most simple est of tasks. Hard to get out of bed in the morning, etc, etc…. To be fair I was slowly getting out of control even before the wife incident as I was not taking any breaks what so ever from it. In the past I would always take one or two days a week off, and one week a year. However, it has probably been 2+ yrs without taking a break. I can pinpoint the moment it all started spiraling downhill.
It was to the point I needed a fix from morning to night and basically was turning into a speed freak. Really had no choice earlier in purging earlier in the year with the wife and all. Lately even caffeine was not getting the job done. Basically I have all the symptoms of major adrenal burnout, per our other thread.
My body temp has been really inconsistant. Though I have yet to get it tested, I think it is messing with my thyroid as my morning waking temperature is really low 96.4 on average. So the purge is on, till I can get back to normal.
You will love this too, while searching for the above problems, I also discovered a problem with black mold in one of my work places, which you guessed it has all the same symptoms as adrenal burnout. So I got double whammied.
“What were you using?”
Black tea (strong) in the am, Coffee PM, vivarin (caffeine pill) usually just bit off a little through the day as needed, and through the last few months in the morning to wake up, and of course I went back to our favorite jack3d to get through my workouts.
“Have you completely come off all caffeine based items?”
Yes, cold turkey. Everything!
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