Subj : Shots
To   : Daryl Stout
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Sep 26 2021 17:45:00

Hello Daryl Stout!

** On Sunday 26.09.21 - 12:59, Daryl Stout wrote to Mark Hofmann:

 DS> [...] But, I've quit drinking soda and caffeine (iced
 DS> tea). Yet, that has brought back the migraine headaches
 DS> due to caffeine withdrawl. I'm still drinking a half
 DS> gallon of liquid a day, but not just water.

I drank coffee non-stop throughout the day many years ago. I  
carried caffeine pills incase I missed having a coffee at my  
prescribed intervals inorder to avoid the withdrawal headaches.

But eventually I decided "no more coffee". Going gold-turkey  
wasn't working. But I learned that I can wean off caffineated  
gradually by reducing the strength and substituting decaf. From  
8-10 large cups per day down to 1 half-strength is amazing for  
me.  I'm hanging on to that one half-strength coffee in the  
morning though. The goal is to just have decaf.


 DS> As the late W.C. Fields said "I don't drink water. Fish
 DS> [have sex] in it". <G>

He shouldn't be drinking from lakes or pond. That's his  
problem.


 DS>   I'll take it for taking medication, but otherwise, I
 DS>   just don't care for plain water. The flavored water is
 DS>   carbonated, and the carbonation might have had an effect
 DS>   on the kidney stone formation. I try to avoid stuff with
 DS>   citric acid, including lemonade, as it tends to give me
 DS>   canker sores with my dentures.

Have you tried the water/flavour enhancers?  I'm trying one of  
these recently:

 https://susepaste.org/16716151


 DS> I'm on medicine to control the heart rate, as well as a blood
 DS> thinner to prevent clots. [...]

And you are probably destined to be on other meds to control  
the side-effects of the previous meds.  :/

I know several people who began taking ONE medication for ONE  
thing and have ended up with taking a cocktail of 8+ meds every  
day.
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  ../|ug

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