Posted by Questionmark on March 13, 2004, at 23:38:01
In reply to Re: COFFEE-Questionmark, posted by nicky847 on March 3, 2004, at 12:32:28
> Questionmark-
> can i get movie rights to your Pfizer antichrist scenario? i think that is a potential goldmine :P..Hah. Good, sure. And thanks.
> > > I LOVE COFFEE! I'm so glad to hear the positive benefits of it from those of you who posted. Normally all we hear is how bad it is for your body (& I'm sure there's some merit to that too). It just makes me feel so much more alert and present in the world, I make better decisions and can interact with people on a higher level - just one cup in the a.m. and maybe a caffeinated soda at lunch.
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> > > But, I'm afraid that it masks my depression/anxiety so I won't know if I'm still depressed or if the Lexapro is working, so I've been trying to cut back.
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> > > What do you all think? (Someone please tell me not to worry about this and just keep drinking my one cup a day - LOL!)
> > > ~ Lynne
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> > If you were having about a cup or so of coffee every day before you started the Lexapro, and you have not been off coffee too long, then it should not mask your depression/anxiety too much to know if your Lexapro is working. Cuz if you've consistenly been drinking coffee for long enough, then that's basically now your normal state-- you w/ about one cup of coffee in you a day (or whatever it happens to be). It could muddle things a little, but in my opinion you should not try to quit. In fact, if you are dependent on caffeine and you quit while on the Lexapro, your depression might get worse and mask the positive effects of the Lexapro.
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> > Green Hornet you said:
> > "I agree about the coffee -- works for me. But somewhere I heard that you should not use caffeine with dopamine reuptake inhibitors, that it cuts back or erases their effect. (ie Ritalin, Wellbutrin etc.) Anyone ever heard about this?
> > Lets not extol the virtues of caffine too much or some jackass will make it a controlled substance -- god forbid we should be "well"!!!"
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> > Caffeine should not cut back or erase the effect of DARIs (Ritalin, etc.)-- it compounds their effects.
> > Your last sentence was a great point. In fact i bet Pfizer and those guys detest caffeine. They think "Look at all those sorry b*st*rds who keep drinking coffee all the time. If it wasn't for coffee, they would hAVe to have our drugs!!" (Sorry, i just think Pfizer is run by the devil). But no, one time a few years ago, in a fit of coffee-induced manic passion, i was yelling to my friends about how i bet, within the next 30 years, caffeine will be made illegal (or at least controlled). i said that cocaine hydrochloride (the salt/ powder) was probably not much worse than isolated caffeine, and that many people in South America use coca leaves as a chew or a tea and are completely fine (except for maybe some enamel decay from the alkalinity). Think about it, if Vivarin or something had somewhat less fillers, and you snorted that, that would almost be as potent as cocaine. And then on top of all that, the government is going to figure out that the vast majority of people in this country (U.S.) who give a sh*t about things enough to do something about it-- the people who aren't just apathetic, conformist robots-- are those who drink coffee. And then they're going to start some major campaign of propoganda about the dangers and evil of caffeine (its addictiveness; its propensity to exacerbate psychoses, anxiety disorders, paranoia, and the like; its "negative" effects on the heart; and [turning around the point that i was trying to make] that it is almost as potent as COCAINE; etc. etc.), and before long it will be a controlled substance, and Pfizer's CEO will run for President and win, and then he will turn out to be the anti-Christ take over the world.
> > Okay i was actually starting to convince myself again until i added that stuff about Pfizer at the end. But you gotta admit, those are some interesting ideas, eh?
> > Alright, i know i sound like I'VE had way too much coffee, and i'm not sure whether pure caffeine is nearly as potent as cocaine (or whether caffeine-containing plants and coca are equally as benign), but, i duno. i had a point. Well anyway, thank God for caffeine.
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