I drank a lot of coffee until I forgot to pack instant on a 3 day backpacking trip. Headache the whole time that I cured in 5 minutes by drinking a mt dew the minute we got back to civilization. Figured it wasn't worth it and weaned off.

Then it turned out my rate of getting migraines dropped off considerably. But I love coffee, so I tried decaf. Migraines returned to being more frequent. So that was that.

If I could get it without the side effects, I surely would. Right now I'm drinking a hot cup of delicious roasted barley tea. But it's not the same.

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Nifty3929 2 days ago | parent [-]

PSA: decaffeinated coffee contains about 1/3 as much caffeine as regular - so far from caffeine free.

	▲	mbil 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It depends of course but typically it’s more like 3% the caffeine of regular coffee
	▲	culi a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's not accurate. In an 8oz cup of decaf there's 2–15 mg of caffeine. Regular coffee is about 91 mg for an 8oz cup