Unfortunately chocolate does just contain straight-up caffeine as well, and dark chocolate contains higher concentrations of it :-( I've been able to get away with it so far but I know footpad can't; he's the only comparably-caffeine-hypersensitive person I've met, so I sort of knew it was coming but was trying VERY HARD to pretend otherwise.
But I spent a lot of this afternoon/evening miserable and jittery and wanting to cry under a table in exactly the way I do when caffeinated; I was off enough A was noticing, and it's something I've had a creeping suspicion about for about two weeks now. So AUGH.
Clearly the solution is to desensitise myself by just starting to subsist entirely off espresso. (This is not a good solution.)
WRT espresso, I've worked with Italians, they thought Macchaiata was the only proper coffee to subsist on. (Italian and programmers, it's a dangerous mix for localised caffeine levels).
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Date: 2016-02-26 09:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-02-26 09:46 pm (UTC)Though IIRC theobromine and caffeine are chemically similar, so there's a sort of sense to it.
A Murphy hates you, utterly unjust sort of sense.
Crossing everything a bendy can manage that this is purely temporary and/or down to brand or batch.
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Date: 2016-02-26 09:49 pm (UTC)But I spent a lot of this afternoon/evening miserable and jittery and wanting to cry under a table in exactly the way I do when caffeinated; I was off enough A was noticing, and it's something I've had a creeping suspicion about for about two weeks now. So AUGH.
Clearly the solution is to desensitise myself by just starting to subsist entirely off espresso. (This is not a good solution.)
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Date: 2016-02-26 10:13 pm (UTC)We live in an unjust universe!
WRT espresso, I've worked with Italians, they thought Macchaiata was the only proper coffee to subsist on. (Italian and programmers, it's a dangerous mix for localised caffeine levels).
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Date: 2016-02-26 09:58 pm (UTC)I have a face-space friend who is sensitive to caffeine in that degree. Hoping that isn't the case for you.
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Date: 2016-02-26 09:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-02-26 11:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-02-27 02:32 am (UTC)(Dark chocolate is a migraine trigger for me; fortunately, I don't like it much.)
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Date: 2016-02-27 12:39 pm (UTC)