Coffee update
Apr. 20th, 2011 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayfurrI haven't had coffee in over a week. I've had some small amounts of chocolate in that time, but no morning cup of coffee, no noontime cup of coffee, no afternoon coffee, no caffeinated soda, none of that. The woolly-brained dizzy feeling has finally gone away -- in the morning, I just have a cup of herbal tea and a big cup of water and I'm good to go. No need to drink even a small cup to be functional.
I think I'm sleeping better from not having all that lingering caffeine in my system at the end of a day.
I'm hoping this helps reduce my blood pressure and hope it also increases my hemoglobin. Unless I'm grotesquely mistaken, coffee/caffeine interferes with iron absorption. As a thalassemia trait human, I'm always going to be borderline anemic, and that makes the Red Cross very unhappy since I'm also O Negative. They call all the time letting me know how desperately they need my blood, but the last 13 times I've tried to donate I was just a bit too low. They need 12.5 grams of hemoglobin per deciliter of blood, and I've been coming in at 11.8 and stuff like that.
I've also got a bad cold, but it didn't start until Sunday and so I don't think you can blame the lack of coffee for my acquiring it. It's just one of those things. A lot of people around my office have one, unfortunately.
I think I'm sleeping better from not having all that lingering caffeine in my system at the end of a day.
I'm hoping this helps reduce my blood pressure and hope it also increases my hemoglobin. Unless I'm grotesquely mistaken, coffee/caffeine interferes with iron absorption. As a thalassemia trait human, I'm always going to be borderline anemic, and that makes the Red Cross very unhappy since I'm also O Negative. They call all the time letting me know how desperately they need my blood, but the last 13 times I've tried to donate I was just a bit too low. They need 12.5 grams of hemoglobin per deciliter of blood, and I've been coming in at 11.8 and stuff like that.
I've also got a bad cold, but it didn't start until Sunday and so I don't think you can blame the lack of coffee for my acquiring it. It's just one of those things. A lot of people around my office have one, unfortunately.
