Tips for Decreasing Caffeine?

Question

Anyone willing to share how you were able to decrease or eliminate caffeine while TTC?  I currently have switched from coffee to tea in the morning, and then I have one caffeinated soda each afternoon.  I would love to eliminate caffeine altogether, but I am afraid of the headaches.  Is there a way to quit caffeine without headaches?  Or should I just suck it up and go cold turkey?

Answer

I steadily decreased for about 2 months and then stopped all together. I had a terrible headache for 4 days, but by day 5, my body felt so good without it. For the first two days without caffeine, I did take tiny sips of pop a couple of times and that helped  lessen the headache. I've gone without for 4 weeks now and feel such an increase in energy! It totally surprised me!

Answer

Oh the headaches. I love my strong tea. I buy loose tea and I asked the lady at the store this exact question. She had an answer and said it works for bags as well as loose tea.
​
​What you do is Boil the water and pour it over the tea. Then wait until it brews and then dump it. 
​
​Refill with water and drink it that way.  
She said you will weaken the caffeine after it brews the first time. That's how I switched off caffeine to decade tea

Answer

My suggestion would be to do half regular coffee and half decaf and then slowly add less regular coffee each day. I've done that before and it does work!

Answer

Be sure to reduce coffein slowly. Also you can take a swig ( or two) coffe if you get headaches - it will immidiately dissapear! So within one week you should manage to wean coffein.

Answer

I don't have any good suggestions but I recently went cold turkey and cut all caffeine. I was probably having approx 3-4 cups of coffee a day (total of 24-32 oz - ie 2 Starbucks grandes). 
​
​I must admit that the headache was pretty bad. It was on and off for about a week. Then, nothing. At the time I didn't give myself any options. I thought I might be preg so I did what I thought I had to do. (I was not preg, but got my bfp the following month). 
​
​To be honest, I don't even miss it now.

Tips for Decreasing Caffeine?

Let’s Glow

Glow is here for you on your path to pregnancy

25+ million

4.8 stars

20+

Getting Pregnant

Pregnancy

1st Year (Baby & You)

Baby Products