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A terrifying realization.
Dec. 14th, 2004 09:47 pmI think my body just can't handle caffeine anymore.
Over the past week-and-so-many days, I've been troubled with constant headaches. I usually wake up fine, and am okay for a while...but the second I get moving, the thudding and the eye-gouging pain begin. This is obviously a sign of a sinus infection that I need to get treated SOON, as in tomorrow....I've been feeling it coming on for weeks now, and I hoped and preyed to the Other Gods that it would just fix itself and save me the trouble and money of going to the doctor's, but no such luck: I think it's actually getting worse.
The thing is, though: whenever I drink anything even vaguely caffeinated, such as green tea at dinner, my head really begins to ache shortly thereafter. And if I don't have a headache at all but suck down a bit o' caffeine just to help me wake up, I will almost immediately start feeling the bulging sensation behind my eyes. My blood pressure is fine...everything else is fine save the sinus infection, which is annoying but tolerable...but, apparently, I just can't drink caffeine anymore without it making my head hurt.
We'll see how this goes after I eat a few pounds of antibiotics over the next week, but I fear the worst: my body has begun to reject one of the last few chemical pleasures it would still accept.
I can't drink booze anymore because it tears my stomach to pieces and I literally have to eat a bottle of Tums to settle it afterwards.
I can't smoke anymore (not that I ever really did that all too much anyway) because if I even smell cigarette smoke now I start coughing up my lungs in gelatinous chunks.
Now...if I can't swill caffeine by the gallons like I used to, what's left? Vicodin? Shit, I only take that when my knees or my shoulder hurts me and I take more than one pill per week it makes me feel all nauseous and dumb.
Goddamnit, Huey Lewis, where are you now? I NEED A NEW DRUG! One that won't makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you, caffeine.
Over the past week-and-so-many days, I've been troubled with constant headaches. I usually wake up fine, and am okay for a while...but the second I get moving, the thudding and the eye-gouging pain begin. This is obviously a sign of a sinus infection that I need to get treated SOON, as in tomorrow....I've been feeling it coming on for weeks now, and I hoped and preyed to the Other Gods that it would just fix itself and save me the trouble and money of going to the doctor's, but no such luck: I think it's actually getting worse.
The thing is, though: whenever I drink anything even vaguely caffeinated, such as green tea at dinner, my head really begins to ache shortly thereafter. And if I don't have a headache at all but suck down a bit o' caffeine just to help me wake up, I will almost immediately start feeling the bulging sensation behind my eyes. My blood pressure is fine...everything else is fine save the sinus infection, which is annoying but tolerable...but, apparently, I just can't drink caffeine anymore without it making my head hurt.
We'll see how this goes after I eat a few pounds of antibiotics over the next week, but I fear the worst: my body has begun to reject one of the last few chemical pleasures it would still accept.
I can't drink booze anymore because it tears my stomach to pieces and I literally have to eat a bottle of Tums to settle it afterwards.
I can't smoke anymore (not that I ever really did that all too much anyway) because if I even smell cigarette smoke now I start coughing up my lungs in gelatinous chunks.
Now...if I can't swill caffeine by the gallons like I used to, what's left? Vicodin? Shit, I only take that when my knees or my shoulder hurts me and I take more than one pill per week it makes me feel all nauseous and dumb.
Goddamnit, Huey Lewis, where are you now? I NEED A NEW DRUG! One that won't makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you, caffeine.
