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Depends on the person. I used to get a splitting headache after ~36 hours of not drinking coffee (i.e. sunday mornings) and would be useless for that day until everything was fine again Monday morning for work. Took me a while to realize it was caffeine withdrawal.
At that point I might do a full medical checkup. If it's so easy to get headaches and become "useless" for the day just because of coffee, that sounds like something else is going on in your body that makes you extra suspecible to these things, but I'm no medical professional, it just sounds extreme/rare to me, something worth checking out
No, your experience is yours, others have other experiences. We don't all have the same exact reaction to caffeine. Don't project how things affect you on others.
I understand, but coffee is amongst the most consumed things in the world, yet headaches from it is something I don't really hear around, so it's not completely wild or out of the blue to suggest a check-up. Something similar was happening to me with energy drinks 10+ years ago, which was related to my blood pressure.
The headaches are not from coffee, they are from the caffeine withdrawal. Try drinking 5-7 cups of strong coffee per day 5 days a week for an extended time and I'm sure you'll see some kind of withdrawal symptoms on Sundays.
Oh, I thought caffeine is the active ingredient in coffee, and so you consume it, and talk about it, just like when people talk about weed, they talk about THC, even tho still saying weed, but okay.
Anyway, I've done what you told me to do for half of my life, and like I said before - I have not noticed withdrawal symptoms whatsoever.
Then you are exceptionally resistant. Congrats. Caffeine withdrawal is super common.
I feel safe saying feeling no withdrawal from coffee isn't exceptional, it's borderline normal. From quick googling, only 10-20% actually have withdrawal symptoms that ruins your day. Up to 40-50% can have mild/noticeable effects, so it's safe to say I'm majority, not exceptional or special.
so by your own numbers, 50-70% do have withdrawal symptoms. While not lotto-win unique, you'd still be in a (large) minority, while most people have some symptoms.
The 10-20% are part of those 40-50%, like levels.
I do a coffee detox every Sunday, and can tell you that the brainfog and lethargy is real. In my case, it's 2-3 cups a day Mon-Sat for this effect to occur on Sunday.
If I limit myself to 1 cup of coffee a day, and do the Sunday detox I just generally feel irritable and eat more sweet things to compensate but without any headaches
Folks who drink coffee consistently are likely perpetually dehydrated and get worse sleep on average cuz they use the coffee to counteract the effects of less sleep daily.
Coffee literally hydrates you. The fact that you believe a popular myth makes me assume you don't really understand coffee.
The worse sleep is a fair argument, but coffee drinkers generally live by a golden rule - no coffee 6 hours before bed.
EDIT: Ffs Lemmy, it really isn't that hard to search and learn something new instead of just downvotting.