![]() From then on, I stuck to pre-capped caffeine over the powdered stuff, for no reason but ease (though there are safety reasons to make this switch too-more on those later). I was able to find a $10 bottle of 100 200 mg capsules (so, roughly five cents a pill) in the supplement section at a local pharmacy, and my body was immediately appeased. I didn’t even realize I had been hooked until I came down with the cold sweats, migraines and body convulsions a few days after being caffeine-free, as I went through withdrawal from my 120-ish mg daily caffeine habit. When I moved back to Brooklyn after graduating, I quit cold turkey without giving it any thought -unlike its liquid equivalent, there is virtually no routine in terms of powdered caffeine consumption it is to coffee what Soylent is to food. Periodically, the caps would open before I swallowed and my mouth would be filled with the harsh, bitter taste of powdered caffeine. I was dosing on average 30 or so milligrams a piece, three to four times daily, whenever I began to feel sleepy. A two-inch tall mountain of the dusty substance sat Scarface-style on a piece of paper atop my then-boyfriend’s desk next to the scale and alongside a baggie of caps. In college, I used to measure out small amounts of caffeine powder on a milligram scale, put it in a gel cap, pop and repeat throughout the day.
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