Oh, yes, Kaliope, and since you have a sensitivity to it, you should remove it from your diet permanently, especially since you're a bipolar patient. (It makes bipolar illness worse, according to my psychiatrist.)

Please see http://www.DoctorYourself.com/caffeineallergy to learn the full effects of damage to the brain caused by those sensitive to caffeine.

I have such a sensitivity and, honestly, chocolate is worse than coffee for me. (It's the theobromine in chocolate, a close cousin to caffeine that is the problem.)

The "lemon thing" will take care of it, though, if you just once in a while "must have" a little taste of chocolate. Do you know the "lemon thing"?

Squeeze 2 fresh lemons into an 8 oz of water; drink it. If you aren't much better in 4 hours, repeat the process. It usually works for some of us. You will be amazed at how calm it makes you feel. I use it on occasion when I've had something I shouldn't be eating.

(The lemon tastes very acid, and it is a citrus fruit, but in digestion it undergoes transformation and becomes one of the most alkaline foods we can ingest. That's its benefit: it corrects an over acidity and brings about a slightly alkaline state to the fluids and tissues, a very welcome appreciation for the body. It isn't the same as the ph of the system; that is regulated by the brain and varies only a minuscule degree in ph.)