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Crohn's Disease
Did you drink coffee, caffeinated tea or eat chocolate daily befor you developed Crohn
Never - 30.0% - 3 votes
1 cup per day, or a little chocolate - 10.0% - 1 votes
2 cups per day, and moderate chocolate - 30.0% - 3 votes
3 or more cups a day, can't get enough chocolate! - 30.0% - 3 votes
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Posted 5/6/2017 9:15 PM (GMT 0)
How many people that have crohns also drink coffee, tea (with caffeine), or eat chocolate before you developed Crohns symptems.

Post Edited (Matthew Sawrie) : 5/6/2017 3:19:04 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 5/6/2017 9:21 PM (GMT 0)
I used to drink 3 or 4 - 10oz cups or two 20oz cups. Almost a liter a day in metric terms. Now I try and stay away from it because it gives me gut pain.
Posted 5/6/2017 9:38 PM (GMT 0)
I have never had coffee or tea in my life. But chocolate is one of my trigger foods. And anytime I have constipation, doctors recommend coffee as a natural laxative.
Posted 5/6/2017 11:51 PM (GMT 0)
Never drank coffee or tea but ate about 10 chocolate bars a day since I was about 3 years old. Upped that to 20 a day when I was about 14 years old. Was in olympic shape and had to eat a lot of sugar to train 18 hours a day. Got Crohn's through food poisoning (bad food poisoning nearly died) at age 38 and a half.
Posted 5/7/2017 1:07 AM (GMT 0)
Before I was diagnosed Crohn's, I very rarely drank any coffee or tea (maybe once in 3 months). But I ate chocolate bars almost every day. I believe there could be a strong link between chocolate (refined sugar) and Crohn's Disease.

Now more than 20 years after my diagnosis, I am drinking coffee these days quite often. Because I do not think coffee has any role in Crohn's.
Posted 5/7/2017 3:56 AM (GMT 0)
I drink coffee every day and have a bite of chocolate probably every day as well.
Anybody who thinks that coffee and chocolate cause Crohns is smoking crack.
Posted 5/7/2017 11:35 AM (GMT 0)

NickyFurlano said...
Never drank coffee or tea but ate about 10 chocolate bars a day since I was about 3 years old. Upped that to 20 a day when I was about 14 years old. Was in olympic shape and had to eat a lot of sugar to train 18 hours a day. Got Crohn's through food poisoning (bad food poisoning nearly died) at age 38 and a half.

Bloody hell. It's almost worth training to become an athlete just to be able to eat that much chocolate a day.

Anyway, I drank tea and coffee and ate chocolate before developing Crohn's but not to excess. But anyone who thinks that is relevant is smoking crack, like gypsyfp said. I've got one other brother with Crohn's, who does drink tea and coffee but doesn't have a sweet tooth, so never ate chocolate as far as I could tell (i.e. didn't keep any in his flat). Meanwhile the brother with the sweet tooth never got Crohn's.
Posted 5/7/2017 1:39 PM (GMT 0)
You dont think that caffeine is an irritant? I can tell you that when I drink coffee my crohns gets much worse.
The only two things that have stopped my crohns dead in its tracks has been daily exercise one hour per day at 85% of my mhr. And removine caffeine completely from my diet. Until then my body was a train wreck. So I guess in your words I must be on crack but at least i no longer have crohns!

Post Edited (Matthew Sawrie) : 5/7/2017 7:44:45 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 5/7/2017 2:04 PM (GMT 0)

Matthew Sawrie said...
You dont think that caffeine is an irritant? I can tell you that when I drink coffee my crohns gets much worse.

Yes, that's normal for some people. Coffee has a well-known laxative effect, but not everyone gets it. I don't, so I can drink a cup of black coffee without any issues.

It obviously makes sense not to drink or eat anything which exacerbates your symptoms, but if you think just stopping drinking coffee is enough to make Crohn's go away you are living in a bit of a dream world. Also, there's no reason why intensive exercise would make Crohn's go away either. Exercise is good for your health, but it's not going to have any effect on gut inflammation.
Posted 5/7/2017 3:42 PM (GMT 0)
Well perhaps for you but since I started intense exercise and not drinking coffee my crohns symptoms have gradually disappeared. Before that I was scheduled for surgery but that has changed. Previous colonoscopy could not get the scope past my illium but last weeks scope not only were they able to get past my illium but my dr said it is remarkable that the crohns has abated so much. I say dont knock it and always look for ways to stop this disease. I have many patents of products people said were impossible and in one case they had to rewrite the university physics books. Just because one person says something is impossible it doesnt mean it actually is otherwise if it was true we would all believe the world is flat...lol
Posted 5/7/2017 5:17 PM (GMT 0)
Sounds like a buddy of mine who is a marathon runner.
He also believes that intense exercise helps with his Crohns, but he still takes his meds and is mostly asymptomatic.
Nevertheless, last fall a routine colonoscopy showed precancerous results in his colon and in December he had a colectomy.
You can do everything right, abstain from irritants and take your meds, but your Crohns will still find a way to try and kill you.
When you get really sick again and have your come to Jesus moment, feel free to come back here and ask for help! Most of us were in similar states of denial at some point and this community still welcomed us back.
:D
Posted 5/7/2017 7:56 PM (GMT 0)
It sounds like you have discovered ways to alleviate your Crohns symptoms that works for you. Congratulations!!! It is good to be observant and analytic. Please prepare yourself -just in case- those things no longer work. Keep doing what works for you and keep all your medical appointments. Try to cover all your bases.

Many of us here are envious and many will be skeptical because most of us have tried darn near everything and it probably didn't work. And the group really does welcome you back without any I told you so's. Lol.....

I was healthy until I got food poisoning (52 and 53 when I got food poisoning--the second time I just could not recover--)and then Crohns set in.....and even though I tried anything and everything I ended up on Remicade and eventually had an end colostomy. So diet may not be a contributing factor for some....but I understand what you are trying to do. There IS scientific data that indicates that food poisoning can be a trigger. (Although when I kept saying that at 53 and 54 everyone looked at me like I was crazy.....)

Regardless, I did drink soda-3 cups daily ...but no chocolate.....and every colonscopy prior to food poisoning showed a healthy colon....

Hope your regime keeps you in remission!

Clo
Posted 5/7/2017 11:40 PM (GMT 0)
When I was about 14 I had (completely unrealistic) dreams of being a pro tennis player (I wasn't NEARLY good enough, but a kid can dream).

Anyway, I gave up sugar/sweets entirely. No junk food. Ate as healthy as I could and exercised and ran and played tennis. And I never tried coffee. And I didn't like tea.

Yet I got sick at age 17 with what was later found to be Crohn's.
Posted 5/8/2017 12:29 AM (GMT 0)
about food poisoning and crohn's. For me I still can't believe it even to this day. I had tins of Puritan meatballs and gravy and tins of Puritan Chilli. I was working 70 hour weeks and this was one of the very few times I didn't wear my glasses in the morning when I got up to eat. I was in a rush to eat and go to work so I opened up a tin out of the cupboard and threw the whole contents into a pan to boil on the stove and eat. Something looked strange but I thought it was the lard from the tin of chilli on the top. Well it turned out it wasn't a tin of chilli it was a tin of meatballs and gravy and what looked like lard wasn't lard it was biological poison. I ate the whole tin and 20 minutes later all my muscles seized up I couldn't even move to the point where my breathing started to shut down. I got rushed to the hospital where I barely survived. I still have the internet article that was posted 3 years after the fact (I got poisoned in 1997 then they poisoned people again in 2000 that one made the internet) where the exact same company poisoned everyone again and people died. That year they incorporated and changed their name to Home Foods Incorporated to avoid lawsuits.
Posted 5/18/2017 10:15 PM (GMT 0)
You could be on to something. I live in a mostly Chinese city and the rate of IBD is almost zero for the Asian race. One thing that's true of the Asian race is very, very few eat sugar and the Chinese food they sell has far less sugar than American food products.
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