SpillthebeansW58: My story without caffeine, a stage passed.

Hi friends, today I share with you my weekly entry in Spill the Beans, Coffee Prompt Week 58, you can join this great challenge and tell us about your experience.

Debatable Prompt: Sometimes illness makes it impossible to enjoy coffee. Tell us about a time that you were very sick; did your relationship with coffee change during this time?

For many it is incomprehensible to think of a day without coffee. For those of us who love coffee, this delicious nectar that revitalizes our mind and body impregnates every day of our lives with energy.

Although I have never had a serious illness, I have had terrible discomforts that I do not wish on anyone. Anyone who has experienced stomach pain due to gastritis can understand what I am talking about. I identify that pain as if a stake were being driven through my stomach. Something similar to what they do to vampires in a horror movie. But I clarify, I'm not a vampire. 🤪

 
It all originated in my college days because of the black soda drinks, a hallaca with Pepsi for breakfast and on another occasion 5 days in a row drinking coke at snacks, were the poison that together with the student stress for so many academic projects to do, triggered the most terrible pains I have lived in the history of my life.

My stomach was very sensitive, it was a time when many foods affected this organ of my body. Drinking coffee more than a delight became a torture for me, although I wanted to drink that wonderful nectar it was no longer so wonderful, immediately a burning and an acidity invaded my stomach and stole my peace. 😔

Then I had to make some adjustments in my diet. By my own decision I was taking out of my daily diet those foods that made me feel bad. Disciplinedly I complied with my medical treatment and for 3 months I followed a rigorous diet and this included a life with zero caffeine Can you imagine that? It is not a day without coffee, it was 3 months without coffee and by my own decision.

For many this may be something impossible to achieve, but there comes a time when health and wellness must prevail. Believe me, I did not miss drinking coffee, neither did my head ache, I could be next to the coffee pot and smell that irresistible aroma without feeling anxious about drinking coffee. The pain that my body had suffered was so horrible that it led me to the determination that for anything in the world I wanted to live it again and that is why I did everything possible to avoid it. Today I affirm that the power is in the mind.

The best of all was that after three months following my medical treatment and eating healthy my stomach overcame that illness, the most fabulous thing was that I was able to drink my delicious coffee again.

 
A cup of coffee in the morning and another one in the afternoon, is the routine I have daily, without abuse and without limitations, I think that this drink well administered can become medicinal since it has helped me to control other diseases in my body such as allergic rhinitis.

I hope you do not have to live this experience and can enjoy your daily coffee. Best regards to all of you.

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The content is my authorship, the images are my own and the digital editing has been done by me. The original text has been written in Spanish and translated using www.DeepL.com