On 1/17/2012 1:51 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 1) I've been experimenting of late -- as I am wont to do.  I've never 
> been a coffee drinker, so I am a virgin laboratory in that sense.  I 
> started with good, whole bean, single source coffee.  The result has 
> been interesting.  Dry cough, itchy, almost rashlike skin, and 
> something I'd never before even experienced: gastric reflux.  Add bad 
> sleep to that and it's been an outright disaster.

I too have recently tried coffee.  I did not get the symptoms you 
describe, but I did have a rather dramatic increase in average heart 
rate -- not just 2 or 3 beats a minute, but 20 or 30!   I'm not 100% 
sure it was the coffee, but it seems likely.  I will be experimenting 
further to find out.  If it truly is to blame, it's outta here.

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   Robert Kesterson
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