If You Have to Stop Drinking Coca Cola For Medical Reasons like Diabetes Here’s Some Advice
I was just diagnosed during my regular 6 month routine blood tests, that at the age of 52 I had type 2 diabetes and that hopefully once I follow a different diet routine and take diabetes medication and exercise more, my blood sugar levels might be normal in a few months and I won’t be considered diabetic. Hope that makes sense, if it doesn’t let me know, I’m only into week two and I have a standard upcoming appointment with a diabetes dietitian. The reason I’m writing this post is because I had to stop drinking Coca-Cola, I was averaging 4-6 12 ounce cans a day and I’ve been doing this for the last 10 years starting when I woke up in the morning. Well I got to tell you the moment I stopped it was pure hell for a week.
Initially I tried to ween myself off gradually but when I totally stopped drinking Coke I thought I was going to die. I had awful migraine headaches followed by less severe headaches daily but they were still awful and in different spots – at times it felt like supreme eyestrain and at other times it felt like I could feel my scull stop my brain from falling out, incredible fatigue, I’d sleep like 20 hours a day, no desire to do anything, I’ve never experienced anything like it. Then out of desperation, I drank a Coke and it tasted like rat poison. A friend recommended I try Diet Coke which I hadn’t drank in years. I bought a 2 litter bottle and surprisingly the Diet Coke agreed with my system and didn’t taste sharp and nasty like it had in the past. It actually tasted surprisingly sweet. I also tried Coca Cola Zero and I guess that was too much like Coca Cola as it also tasted to me like Rat Poison with the diabetic medicine inside me. So I started drinking Diet Coke and all the headaches, fatigue and depression seemed to be going away and I was beginning to feel like my old self again. Everyone I know said I had been experiencing caffeine withdrawal. So if any of you have to stop drinking Coca Cola or any similar type soft drink in the future, try doing it by replacing Coca Cola with Diet Coke right away, and hopefully you won’t be experiencing the withdrawal effect so much or at a much more minimal level. The weird thing is Diet Coke for some reason tasted better and sweeter to me from the 2 litter bottles than the cans so I’m just drinking from the bottles only. I’m not a Doctor though, so what worked for me might not work for you.
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