Searching for treatments, I came across a number of sites including WebMD and a couple science journals (as well as plenty of health blogs nobody would consider reliable sources) stating that caffeine could be the cause of arthritic, tendon and joint pain such as osteoarthritis. Enter frantic self-diagnosis mode via WebMD-everyone's favorite form of science you can mock and thus attempt to destroy an argument you don't like, but wait: this was way too coincidental.*įUCK! Do I have that? Cartilage deteriorating in my joints? Probably. I figured I must have banged it during yoga because I had a bone spur on the front of my tibia. Same with my right knee, which seemed to be getting worse. I thought it was a yoga injury, but I couldn't figure out how. Toes - one day, my big toe just started to hurt. Lower back pain - yoga is the only thing that helped this, and the rest of my pains, actually - but with the increasing joint pains, yoga became impossible to do. I kept trying to change my sitting position so that my wrists and elbows wouldn't be in the same position too long, but this didn't really help. Wrist and elbow pain - kept getting worse and this I blamed at my desk-based computer job. Knee pain - kept getting worse, even though I was not running, playing basketball or anything like that.Īnkle pain - same as knee pain, kept getting worse despite lack of high-impact activity. The first moments walking were very painful, thus the first thing I did was step out of bed carefully and immediately start stretching by leaning against the wall. Every morning if I didn't stretch my feet first thing, my hamstring and heel would be quite sore for most of the day. "Plantar Fasciitis" - I even bought night braces for this. I couldn't stand for long periods of time at all, couldn't walk for very long at all hell, my feet hurt just sitting on the couch or laying in bed. I bought 8 pairs of shoes in the last 2 years trying to find anything that seemed to help my feet. Within a week, all my pain was gone, even the caffeine withdrawal headaches I had at the beginning of the week. I read about this and, having struggled with what I thought was plantar fasciitis for the last 2 years as well as an increasing number of pains throughout my body, decided to stop eating chocolate and drinking coffee. I know you are all familiar with the research that pops up constantly on your Facebook feed, Reddit, and everywhere else which says it's good for your heart, good for your liver, good for longevity, good for your brain, good for your eyesight, and anything else they can dream up, but there are also studies that have shown it may be causing you incredible pain. I know this is an incredibly unpopular thing to say because coffee is so ubiquitous and seemingly benign, who but a crazy Seventh Day Adventist would suggest it might be the cause of various muscle & joint pains? Well, scientific research, actually.
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