Exercise doesn't lower blood sugar, it USES it. So yes, expect perhaps a bit of a drop, but it actually helps your sugar level in the long run. Coffee lowers it in hypoglycemics for one important reason. Caffeine isn't really the reason that people feel a high after drinking it. It's actually because it causes your liver to release stores of glucagen, which increases the level of glucose in the blood, leading to the 'high.' In hypoglycemics, this is just interpreted as yet another sugar drop and bad stuff happens. That's it.

I know I am sounding like a crybaby but ... I have tried to cut back on coffee but I get so down and depressed that I have to drink more. I have been drinking 5 to 7 cups a day for 17 years and I think my brain is so used to it that it can't function without it. I mean, I went down to a half cup a day for a month and then nothing for a few days and I could never feel normal". Caffeine is the only thing I haven't mastered in this three month quest to "feel normal". Bummer.

Well, you're going to have to do it. If you want to end up with diabetes or something more serious, keep drinking it.

it can take months for you to get over caffeine. keep that in mind. i had a tough time with this one as well. i experimented with just a decaf this past weekend could feel some of my old symptoms returning. it does something to your adrenals. i think it's important to stay away from it all together - 100% no caffeine. try herbal tea or pero. it gets easier, trust me.....

lulu? (Or anyone) Can you describe in detail the benefits you have found with eliminating caffeine? It is strange, but when you put in the search "benefits of eliminating caffeine" into Google. There are very few stories of people stating how much better it is being without caffeine.

I'm not sure why that's strange, it's a stimulant, and thus can be quite nasty if you have too much of it over an extended period of time.

i have actually found a lot of stories of the benefits of eliminating it. there is a good book - i think it's called caffeine blues. but either way, waht do you have to lose? give it up a few months and see how you feel. for my body chemistry, stimulants do not work. it has the same effect as sugar. i get the initial high followed by a low. over long term, you are just going to be on a roller coaster ride.

caffeine is the most widely used drug in the world and it is that - a drug.

I'm drinking roasted dandelion tea ( no caffeine) for liver support now and I read somewhere that it can be used to wean yourself off of coffee. It tastes like coffee to me. It's going to be rough. Maybe switch to green tea first.

Green tea has A LOT of caffeine in it.

Does this sound weird or what?

Mornings are fine, but around 1pm everyday I start to get depressed with the worst part of the depression being around 4pm. And then around 5pm everything starts to go back to normal and by 7pm, I feel great the rest of the night . This happens almost every single day.

Pretty normal, sugar levels are higher in the evening. Anything in particular you're doing around the time you get sick or about two hours before? Eating something consistently?

I drink alot of coffee in the morning, about 3 cups from 7am till about noon. Could that be the problem?

Ummm, yeah.