Who loves coffee?

Does anyone hear find that coffee, or even black tea, aggravates your UC, but love it so much that you just cannot stop drinking it?

I try to stop, but I just love it so much that I don't think I will ever be able to walk away from such a delicious and comforting, at least going down, drink.
J

YES! this is a biggie for me, hence my screen name!

In a flare coffee aggravates my uc.  I did give it up for many many months trying to get into remission. i have been in a lingering flare since 2009, with 4 bms and blood and urgency and no improvement, even without the coffee. so then i added the cofffee back in, and did not get worse, so i kept the coffee in. now a few months later i am giving up coffee again while i try a couple of new meds to see if i get improvement.  i drink green tea instead. yes it has caffeine but not as much and i see no diiff than wiht the green tea decaf for my symptoms.

my goal is to get to remission, and try and reintroduce the coffee again.

what do you put in your coffee?

i used to use those flavored creamers (taste delicious but r bad for the colon) now i try and use silk almond milk vanilla flavor.  every once in a while i have a cup of coffee with the flavored creamer and its so good....

 

I am having a cup right now with some vanilla creamer.

I could NEVER drink coffee when I was in a flare....would kill me. Tea was fine. When I had brief periods of remission, I could drink coffee again...I just took it with cream.

i used to drink a lot of coffee when i was a teenager. i was a Splenda addict and would only drink black coffee with Splenda. it tasted really good to me, but looking back on it, i think all the Splenda usage caused me major digestive problems. after i stopped the Splenda, i stopped drinking coffee, too, because i ONLY like it with Splenda haha

I am starting to really enjoy the slippery elm powder tea with cinnamon, too.

It is definitely not a substitute for coffee, but it is warm and good.
I love a decaf Americano coffee with half and half. I might take a quick walk over to Starbucks and get one in just a little bit. I have a gift card to redeem; it was given to me for helping out with the under age 5 Sunday School at my church.
J

Walked away from coffee in May when I started this journey. I just knew the cold winter months would be miserable because my boss is a coffee addict! The first day it turned cold, I made warm decaf green tea. I didn't really like it at first, but now I have 1 cup each morning when I get to work. It seems to help when the boss starts brewing her gourmet coffee.

I don't miss coffee and I don't do soda. Once you survive the detox from the lack of caffeine, you can give it up! I am a plain ole water girl now. I drink ALOT of water. Definitely more than 8 cups a day. I have started drinking about a half cup of Almond Milk. Get it cold enough and it's like having a milkshake.

I like coffee, drink it black and strong and at least one big mug (2 cups?) around noon, each day. Sometimes I make it latte, with frothed almond milk, yum. Never add any sugar or sweetener. To indulge myself, I sprinkle it with ground raw organic cocoa nibs - anyone tried those? I love dark, unsweetened chocolate and those nibs are perfect in taste.

It's not the caffeine for me; I can do really good on light green tea as well. It's my "comfort item", when I have moment to relax during a day.
I love coffee smell, much more than taste. But whenever just a smell makes me nauseous, I know my body doesn't want it. That was during first months of both my pregnancies as well as during the lats-year flare. So really I don't know if it would aggravated my symptoms during flare-up. Regular cup sometimes makes me go.

Me, me, I love coffee!! I couldn't drink it at all when I was flaring but now that I am remission, it is like back to normal and I am fine with it. I can't remember about tea when I was flaring, I think I likely didn't drink it either. But now I do.

JayGuitar said...
where do you get coconut nibs? are they chocolate covered? i do eat a lot of coconut with the paleo diet and would like more coconut options.
j

These are cocoa, not coconut, nibs. Never have tried coconut nibs.

The cocoa are delicious, if you like dark, unsweetened chocolate. They are rich in magnesium and iron; don't even bother to compare with any other kind of coca on the market. But still, they are hard (like nuts) and chocolate, so for UC it's a challenge. I ground them and sprinkle on my coffee, sometime add to my shake.

Oh im craving my starbucks iced coffee! Cant drink it in a flare and its almost been a year.

I could not give up my coffee, i think i could quit smoking quicker than quit drinking coffee. :) I drink any good quality coffee, stay away from those instant coffee drinks. nasty. :)
Marty