Caffeine Free Diet Blackpetero

This may be considered oversharing (the driving need for bloggers to include the internet in the most intimate and mundane parts of their lives, for the best oversharing story read Emily Gould's NY Times magazine cover story). Yesterday I went to the neurologist. I have always suffered from headaches, but since coming to Israel these have turned into at the minimum weekly migraines. I was given serious meds to deal with the migraines and the pills work (after an hour or so). But, in the last few years I find I am swallowing at least 2 to 4 Exedrins (called Acamol Focus here) a day.

The (new) neurologist heard this and promptly decided I was addicted to caffeine and needed to stop the pills cold turkey (interestingly enough is disagreement on the derivation of this term). He decided no more Diet Coke (god's drink), no morning espresso. He decided that I get two types of headaches, migraines (which the Relert works well on) and tension/stress headaches, which are now being accelerated by the addiction to pills/caffeine. An Acamol Focus tab, apparently has as much caffeine as 5 cups of coffee (the internet seems to think there is roughly the same amount in a pill as a cup of coffee, but you cannot believe everything you read).

So what this means for you, is that blackpetero is probably going to be grumpier, more irritable, have less patience, and just generally be more miserable than ever. I wonder if anyone will be able to tell?