coca cola dependence?

Teddy Chips

Do you think its possible for your stomach to become dependent on a coca cola fix? On the strict orders of my dentist I stopped drinking it about six weeks ago. This was after a period of probably twenty years of regular usage. The thing is my stomach has been all over the place in those six weeks, constipation, constant grumbling and the odd flash of diarrhea.

MaybeLogic

Teddy Chips wrote: »

Do you think its possible for your stomach to become dependent on a coca cola fix? On the strict orders of my dentist I stopped drinking it about six weeks ago. This was after a period of probably twenty years of regular usage. The thing is my stomach has been all over the place in those six weeks, constipation, constant grumbling and the odd flash of diarrhea.

Probably sugar withdrawal symptons.

biko

There's sugar and caffeine in it I think.
It'll take some time for the body to adjust.

Biggins

A sudden change of drastic diet would definitely have an effect.
Your body would have gotten use to certain chemicals and built up resistances to them.
The sudden lack of one incoming chemical then would have an effect alone on your body that was still producing corresponding chemicals to counter the damaging work of the stuff.

Its like mixing an acid with a base. Each cancelling the other out.
Take one away and what are you left with - and if it can't find something it was meant to work on, it still sits in your system and it won't sit there doing nothing!

genericguy

coca cola is fcuking horrible.

the_syco

When in college I sometimes had coca cola cravings, and found that the Tesco brand apple juice satisfied my craving. Dunno why, but you should maybe try it?

enda1

6 weeks is a long withdrawal time though.

QI seemed to believe crisps were far worse for your teeth than coke. You given them up too OP?

Carroller16

genericguy wrote: »

coca cola is fcuking horrible.

Blasphemy

bada_bing

OP, i'm curious to know how much/often you drank coke?? Was it every day??

AnonoBoy

Have you tried just switching to Pepsi or Score Cola?

genericguy

Carroller16 wrote: »

Blasphemy

hundred grand fine then? nah it's horrible. it really is.

mikom

Teddy Chips wrote: »

coca cola dependence?

Less a dependance, more a fizzical attraction.

waffleman

had the same thing with boost + sausage rolls breakfast habit a few months back. They were deep fried sausage rolls not baked! Only took about a week for the cravings to go away.

The cravings were bad though - my body wanted a big dose of fat, sugar and caffeine to get me going in the morning. I still miss that breakfast. Oats just arent the same

Teddy Chips

QI seemed to believe crisps were far worse for your teeth than coke. You given them up too OP?

I'm not really a crisp fan so never really ate them regularly.

OP, i'm curious to know how much/often you drank coke?? Was it every day??

Yes. I would have had a can almost every day.

Have you tried just switching to Pepsi or Score Cola?

I'd rather gnaw my own balls off.

Keano

genericguy wrote: »

coca cola is fcuking horrible.

such a generic AH answer

Teddy Chips

mikom wrote: »

Less a dependance, more a fizzical attraction.

I feel bad for you.

AssaultedPeanut

Teddy Chips wrote: »

I feel bad for you.

Ah c'mon now, you chuckled didn't you? In an almost embarrassed way, but you still did. Admit it

AnonoBoy

Teddy Chips wrote: »

I feel bad for you.

If you're having soft drink problems I feel bad for you son,
I got 99 problems but the cola ain't one.

bonerm

Teddy Chips wrote: »

The thing is my stomach has been all over the place in those six weeks, constipation, constant grumbling and the odd flash of diarrhea.

That's facinating! I didn't realise coke withdrawal could cause an increase in female characteristics? You'd better get back on the stuff before your lad drops off.

Elmo

dementedsoul wrote: »

Ah c'mon now, you chuckled didn't you? In an almost embarrassed way, but you still did. Admit it

Face-palmed here, but good bad joke all the same.

I am addicted to fizzy drinks its the sugar I guess. Have a cup of Tea or coffee instead.

NothingMan

mmm....Coke. Now I wanna go down and get a can, but i'm goin the gym after work and I always find if I have one in the afternoon I can't run for very long, but I still want one. If only they hadn't filled our vending machine with crap chocolate! Stupid Cadbury's Turkish and feckin Kit Kats and I like my Yorkies with honey comb not horrible raisins!!!! FCUK YOU vending machine filler guy!!! FCUK YOU!!!

stovelid

the_syco wrote: »

When in college I sometimes had coca cola cravings, and found that the Tesco brand apple juice satisfied my craving. Dunno why, but you should maybe try it?

Hopefully if this becomes widespread, Coca-Cola won't start setting fire to outlets that sell Tesco cola....

mikom

Teddy Chips wrote: »

I feel bad for you.

Says the poster with the squirts.

admiralofthefleet

as well as sugar and caffeine there is a whole load of secret ingredients that are probably addictive, i dont care though i love the stuff. nothing tastes better ice cold

the keen edge

NothingMan wrote: »

mmm....Coke. Now I wanna go down and get a can, but i'm goin the gym after work and I always find if I have one in the afternoon I can't run for very long, but I still want one. If only they hadn't filled our vending machine with crap chocolate! Stupid Cadbury's Turkish and feckin Kit Kats and I like my Yorkies with honey comb not horrible raisins!!!! FCUK YOU vending machine filler guy!!! FCUK YOU!!!

Booby trap the vending machine, till be the last time that fcuker force's people to choose rancid Yorkies with raisins.:rolleyes:

NothingMan

the keen edge wrote: »

Booby trap the vending machine, till be the last time that fcuker force's people to choose rancid Yorkies with raisins.:rolleyes:

The rollseyes smiley implies you're being sarcastic but raisins are rancid! You take a lovely juicy grape and suck all the good part out. Why would anyone do that! Same goes for all dried fruit.

--Kaiser--

Friends of mine told me before that if they didn't drink a bottle of coke every day they'd get terrible headaches. Madness

orourkeda

Go on the coke

the keen edge

NothingMan wrote: »

The rollseyes smiley implies you're being sarcastic but raisins are rancid! You take a lovely juicy grape and suck all the good part out. Why would anyone do that! Same goes for all dried fruit.

I was meaning to use the Wink smiley, not the rollseyes smiley. I fully agree with you. I have a deep hatred for raisins too. I cant count the amount of times that I've left my house in the morning, angered by some fcukers insistence on trying to fit 500 grams of raisins into a 300 gram box of muesli.

antodeco

Teddy Chips wrote: »

I'd rather gnaw my own balls off.

You mightnt be able to gnaw them off if the dentist wants you to stop drinking coke!

ChocolateSauce

I've been there too. I used to drink about 5 litres of coke a day, then I started getting diabetes symptoms, so I quit. I went through about a month of chronic fatigue before I felt normal again. I'm also heavily addicted to caffeine thanks to the 15 years of coke, which I now get through coffee.

artanevilla

6 weeks? See a doctor OP.

partyatmygaff

I'm a coke addict





:pac:

cleremy jarkson

ChocolateSauce wrote: »

I've been there too. I used to drink about 5 litres of coke a day, then I started getting diabetes symptoms, so I quit. I went through about a month of chronic fatigue before I felt normal again. I'm also heavily addicted to caffeine thanks to the 15 years of coke, which I now get through coffee.

:eek:

Did you drink water aswell? Your adrenal gland's must have been raped with all that sugar and cafeine!

partyatmygaff

ChocolateSauce wrote: »

I've been there too. I used to drink about 5 litres of coke a day, then I started getting diabetes symptoms, so I quit. I went through about a month of chronic fatigue before I felt normal again. I'm also heavily addicted to caffeine thanks to the 15 years of coke, which I now get through coffee.

You're lucky you didn't get diabetes from that :eek:

I used to drink 2 litres of diet coke a day a while back. Cut it down now by a lot :pac:

Scarydoll

I don't know how people can drink that stuff. Tis rank.

I watched an episode of How to look ten years younger once and there was this lady on it. She was addicted to diet coke and drank shít loads.
Well she said she bit into a sandwich one day and t'was awful crunchy. Turns out her teeth had rotten and she was eating them.

Felt ill for ages after watching that.

cleremy jarkson

Has anybody here ever given up coke (after drinking large amounts for many years) and also given up cigarettes? I'd be curious to know how difficult relative to each other the two things are to give up.

Shapey Fiend

I can drink 5+ bottles of Diet Coke when I'm stressed out. That aspartene stuff is hella addictive. I'd say sugar is a much better option, I just find the balance of normal Coke a bit too sweet. They'll probably put high fructose corn syrup in instead of sugar eventually, that ****s meant to taste horrible, and be really bad for you.

D_murph

antodeco wrote: »

You mightnt be able to gnaw them off if the dentist wants you to stop drinking coke!

Not to mention the fact that you would need to be a contortionist to be able to pull that off in the first place :pac:.