July
2008
Skin Less “Coffee Sensitive” When Often Imbibed?
Sorry for the use of the word “imbibed” in the title there, but I couldn’t decide whether “drank” or “drunk” would be more appropriate, so I chose to go with neither and use a less often used word there! This is really a lame post today, so sorry, but you know I post any and every thought that goes through my mind when it comes to my skin and acne, and my personal experiences no matter how small, or observations, no matter how trivial, whether everyone agrees with them or not. Be warned, this is an example of one such trivial observation!
I’ve been drinking a half a cup of coffee lately - about five days a week. You guessed it, the five days a week I work, usually, and maybe one off or so on the weekend too, because I need to wake up in the morning, and coffee is the best tasting way to do that for me. What I’ve been doing though is diluting it just a bit, and only drinking a half a cup, with lots of cream and one packet of artificial sweetener.
I’ve noticed that my skin’s grown “accustomed” to the coffee, and I haven’t experienced any breakouts from drinking it, aside from the first day or so I started my spree in drinking caffeinated coffee. I’ve often written about how super sensitive my skin usually is to caffeinated beverages or any sort of “speedy” medication or pills (we’ve talked about Vicodin, ephedra, and other medications that seem to make me break out, and others have shared that sentiment as well), so I was kind of surprised when I didn’t break out at all for the next few weeks of my coffee binge.
I’m thinking my skin has become accustomed to it, but I’m also thinking that if I were to quit drinking it for a while and cut out all caffeine for a few weeks, and then went back to it, I would probably start to break out again -no? Just a thought. I told you this was trivial 
