Hi Mary,

You asked about getting off caffeine. If you've tried going
"cold turkey" and that doesn't work, maybe try tapering off
little by little, every day increasing the percent of decaf
in your cup and decreasing the percent of real coffee, until
you eventually get it so it's 100% decaf.

Then next try drinking fewer and fewer cups per day of the
decaf, and then after that a smaller and smaller cup of it;
while at the same time adding some other herbal tea or other
hot drink you like, so that you can continue to have
something hot to drink like you're used to.

(These suggestions are based on the assumption that it's
coffee you're hooked on, rather than caffeinated sodas. Is
that right?)

Usually reducing it this way helps avoid the horrific
headache and shakes and so on. Have you tried to do it like
this yet? Also, have you thought about other reasons you
might be wanting the caffeine - like - are you getting
enough sleep? Loads of coffee drinkers are just simply
old-fashioned exhausted. (Aren't you a mother of seven or
eight or twelve children - something wonderful and
superhuman like that? Or am I mistaking you for someone
else?)

Or are there blood sugar problems going on, and the coffee
is part of the "cycle?"

Hope this helps.

Love Liza
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