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Can you please describe what you mean by “feeling like crap”? Trying to understand if I have the same issue.

Basically very agitated, anxious. It's the same as with regular coffee, though perhaps slightly less.

Do you drink tea as well? Tea contains a lot of caffeine when compared to decaf. You might also try another decaf. The amount of caffeine in different brands may vary. I could drink 7 cups of decaf Lavazza without feeling any caffeine at all and I'm very susceptible to it. I can't suffer even a single cup of normal coffee per day or few teas without getting anxious and twitchy fairly quickly.

It sounds like you are reacting to the caffeine. Decaf still has somewhere between 5 and 20% the amount of caffeine as regular coffee

Yeah, this is what I thought at first. However, I can drink 2L of cola and still have no problems whatsoever.

Now that I think of it, I do feel bad one or two days after I stop drinking cola.

Perhaps it is the caffeine but it's acting in a different way, more like an addiction.

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