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Posted 1/31/2013 7:19 PM (GMT 0)
iSpark,

I am a data guy. For 18 months I measured everything on a laboratory scale. I weighed every drop of pee - from piddling in a pee pad to dribbling in the toilet to moistening my undies. I also recorded input volume, output time, bladder capacity and bladder pressure (don't ask).
I found no difference between drinking water, fruit juice, coffee, beer, carbonated vs. noncarbonated, alcohol.
By far, the most significant factor was the quantity of fluid I drank. Period. It was not the type of fluid I consumed. I could not measure any significant difference nor see any difference in my incontinence.
This was true for me. Your mileage may vary.
Sadly I was one of the "lucky" 1 in 9 guys that are still incontinent at one year. I had surgery that fixed it.

Odds are very good that at 3 months the only use you will have for pee pads is for waxing your car or soaking up oil spills in the garage.

Good luck to you.
Jeff
Posted 2/1/2013 3:02 PM (GMT 0)
New member after RP on 01/21. I was wondering about my green tea habit. Just wanted to state how grateful I am for this forum (esp Gedman's timely links above) and discussions like this -- among many things for which I am grateful.
Posted 2/1/2013 3:35 PM (GMT 0)
tjell,

Welcome to the forum. I think the general consensus would be that your green tea is one of the better things you could drink. That is, of course, if one likes green tea.
Posted 2/1/2013 5:46 PM (GMT 0)
tjell,
I should have added green tea to my list. I drink a lot of green tea Japanese, not Chinese.
I Tomo Sencha, House Sencha/Matcha, Hojicha, Genmaimatcha, and my favorite because it can be reused for many cups: Okumidori sencha. At the time, I could not see any difference in my bladder or control performance.
Volume was the only deciding factor. If I drank a lot, I peed/leaked a lot.

I even... I even... (I'm almost too embarrassed to say this so I'll just get it out of the way.) I even measured what I call "sub-measureable leak". That is, leakage that is lost due to evaporation on cold dry days with low relative humidity. (Yes, my equipment is that sensitive.) Even factoring for that, I could not see a difference.
Pity my poor, poor wife.

Welcome to HealingWell by the way.
Jeff
Posted 2/1/2013 7:35 PM (GMT 0)
Hojicha is a favorite of mine. I also like Lapsang souchong -- a much more strongly-flavored smoked black tea from China.
Posted 2/1/2013 8:47 PM (GMT 0)
Worried Guy... I laugh to myself every time I read one of your 'calculating' posts. I thought i was bad measuring volume with a stop watch to calculate flow rate. I've been a coffee drinker all along but since the fall have been experimenting with herbal tea. Never thought I'd like it but it is a daily treat now. I buy from "Davids Tea'.
Posted 10/22/2015 11:38 AM (GMT 0)
Worried Guy, what kind of surgery cured your incontinence? Thanks.
Posted 3/14/2024 5:37 AM (GMT 0)
Reported.
Posted 3/14/2024 2:06 PM (GMT 0)

Steve n Dallas said...
Reported.

Reported what? To whom ?
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Posted 3/14/2024 10:04 PM (GMT 0)
After surgery I couldn't drink coffee because it caused extreme urinary urgency. I tried decaf coffee, and it still had the same effect, so the culprit must not have been caffeine. I switched to tea, and was fine. Based on the reports here, individual experience varies hugely. You should drink coffee after surgery, but only if you like it. If coffee causes problems, stop drinking it and try something else, such as tea. Over time -- eight years -- my sensitivity to coffee has almost entirely gone away, but I still drink tea mostly because I don't need cream and sugar to enjoy.

If I drink 700 cups of coffee a year and add 40 calories of cream and sugar to each cup, that contributes 28K calories to my annual diet, which is about 8 pounds of fat in my belly.
Posted 3/15/2024 4:50 AM (GMT 0)
No one ever mentioned coffee being a potential problem to me (until I just read this thread), so I resumed having my morning cappuccino then a cup of drip coffee later in the morning the day after surgery, as was (and is) my morning routine. I felt no affects from doing so.
Posted 3/15/2024 12:11 PM (GMT 0)
I am always amused by comments like “ I HAVE to have my morning coffee or I don't function….” which is pretty common. Then I hear someone decrying the “drug problem” in the country. Hmmmmm….
Posted 3/17/2024 9:27 PM (GMT 0)
Always amazing (and sad really) to see the old names from posts10+ years old. Sigh.....
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