Does two pieces of Warburton's small Toastie (toasted, obviously), butter, 2 coffees and 1 tea count?
There is no Marmite or Bovril in the shops and I don't do sweet things on toast more than once every 3-4 months.
Was sleeping wonderfully peacefully this morning for a change, thanks to the lovely cool air from the rain.
And then my phone goes off. Medication delivery to book. Put head back down, cat joins and claims 3 pillows as his own. Just closing eyes again, phone goes. It's the hospital, checking that I am coming to my appointment tomorrow. Yes, I am. Put it down, head back down. And then the reminder texts about the various appointments tomorrow, Wednesday and the medication delivery start pinging through.
However, in terms of cutting down caffeine, it's definitely something to do gradually. It never used to affect me at all and I'd have a coffee just before bed and sleep for 9 hours - but these days, no chance; so with the things I had to keep on top of about 4 years ago, I drank more and more Diet Coke, Red Bull, stronger coffee, etc, just to get through the day - and then I was signed off work with a huge PsA flare.
Felt a bit weird the first day, bit headachey by the evening. And then the headache hit. Paracetamol didn't touch it, codeine didn't touch it. Proper, wearing sunglasses in the dark because a chink of a street light 30 foot away on the other side of the road got through the closed blind and felt like my eyes were going to burst, pain. Thought I'd done something horrid to my wonky neck because of where the pain originated. I was constantly clasping an ice pack to my head, taking decongestants in the hope that it was a sinus thing and generally wishing for a quick death.
I realised I hadn't had a single caffeinated drink since the Friday, so I sent Mr D out for three Red Bulls. Caned those, along with some chocolate (which I don't even like) and I started feeling better immediately.
The idea of being dependent upon anything really pisses me off (I'm one of those people who, if prescribed strong painkillers, asks how long before I can come off them again, rather than any other questions), so I drank enough caffeine to not feel like that again but gradually reduced it by firstly winding back the time I had the last one, then gradually reducing the numbers I have - I'm down to two coffees a day, never after 12pm and some teas after that.
I found out that green tea makes me feel sick and that some herbal teas are nicer than others, but the most noticeable thing is that, unless I am actually feeling ill and need a sugar hit, I don't miss fizzy drinks at all. I've always disliked water unless it was straight from a chilled and filtered cooler, so I still need drinks that taste of something - using actual fruit to infuse things is nice and I make an exception for fizzy elderflower and rose lemonade on the rare occasions we're out. But I don't actually need them. And yesterday's single glass of wanky orange juice was the first time I'd had that in months - was very nice, too.
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rare roast beef horseradish and yorkshire puddings are gorge.
