Anyone given up coffee?

[idahoblues]

Yea but it's shite coffee and I have to wait for you to concoct your double expresso fancy name thing while all i wanna do is pay for the petrol ,not listen to the moaning when the coffee isn't like in a cafe !!!

You don't pay at the pump?

 

[lonestay]

Na fuel card so gotta go in to garage and stand behind the coffee buyers cos they only got one cashier on !!

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Has this link been made by other sufferers do you know?

Yep. And salt. Im loads better for it

 

[buckshot]

Never tried coffee, can't stand the smell

 

[denislawsbackheel]

As a fellow sufferer I'm aware of their generic advice about caffeine etc but my specialist seems much more concerned about sodium/potassium restriction. I was just interested in your own direct experience of coffee and that of other people that you may know with the condition.

It is such a shit experience as you know, vomiting, vertigo so bad you cannot stand, etc., I did the lot.
No coffee
No booze
No salt
Gallons of water
Epley manoeuvre whenever I feel the eye aura coming on.

 

[bluethrunthru]

My gf is absolutely buzzing in the mornings - always smiling & full of beans. How she puts up with me being groggy, dopey & generally half asleep for at least an hour is beyond me. And that's without ale... I just cannot wake up.
She says it's because I'm addicted to coffee. She doesn't drink it. Any thoughts?

On the list of things I could do with giving up coffee isn't near the top TBH

 

[El Gringo]

I had really bad Gerd and was reliant on Ranitidine and omeprozol. Was advised after an endoscopy to give up coffee, which I did 4 years ago. I no longer have acid reflux and don't need and medication any more, which is a godsend, as omeprozol is a horrible drug.

 

[George Hannah]

Yep. And salt. Im loads better for it

It is such a shit experience as you know, vomiting, vertigo so bad you cannot stand, etc., I did the lot.
No coffee
No booze
No salt
Gallons of water
Epley manoeuvre whenever I feel the eye aura coming on.

Thanks chaps. I've had my eardrum pierced and use a Meniett pump when things kick off but when the next bout is starting I'll follow your advice on coffee etc.

 

[normskih]

I have to stop temporarily when I have a spell of Meniere’s syndrome.

You poor devil. I have had Meniere's since I was 24 years of age, at the time was one of the youngest to be diagnosed with it. Hope you don't have too many episodes. At my worst, which is over 30 years ago, I had to limit tea but didn't drink coffee. I now have the occasional coffee but do drink tea, very little alcohol due to other health issues.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

What I hate, and frightens me, is it can come on at any time.
Last time, two weeks ago was in a hotel on the eve of getting the morning ferry home from France.
I put my head down on the bed to go to sleep and suddenly the whole room was going round. I couldn’t see properly, the wall was just flashing back and forth and I started throwing up into the bin. This went on for an hour or so until it had settled down enough for my Mrs to do the Epley manoeuvre on my neck and head. She did it a couple of times, and I threw up again but was then able to settle to sleep. If I’d shown up at the ferry port like that they would not have let me travel. By the morning I was OK enough to travel but the time before it lasted two weeks of utter hell.