Coffee has become my friend

Lots in here may disagree but I believe coffee has helped me. At least it's helped me cope.

Here's how:

Every morning I make several cups of strong "low acid blend" coffee. Within fifteen minutes it kicks in and I pretty much empty out. It may continue for 30 minutes or so and then I'm good for the day. The benefit is how it makes me alert and in a good mood at the same time!

Anyway, sometimes I follow up the above routine with a mesalmine enema (and I again empty out) or a Canasa suppository. I don't always empty out after the suppository.

In general, I'm good to go for the day. Empty and alert!

John

I think cocoa beans work the same way, in that they both stimulate peristalsis of the GI tract. Believe it or not, but dark chocolate also packs a decent punch of caffeine and gives me the same kick in the morning.

For more on how to enhance the benefits of coffee, I highly recommend searching for how to make bulletproof coffee. Dave Asprey has popularized it and people are seeing good results with it.

That seems an odd strategy to start the day....clearly the coffee is aggravating your colon, not sure that's a good idea long term..just my view of course.

Now I'm in remission I have introduced various foods that I couldn't touch before, but coffee is still the one thing that I can't have, and alcohol of course!

Coffee stimulates the peristalsis...not aggravates the colon...it doesn't get that that quickly.

if you have stool in the lower part, it'll help the urge.

Probably half the world has coffee in the morning to help a bm. 2 glasses of water when you wake-up can do the same thing as can eating.

q

Do it right when you get up....I do that on the days I go out for breakfast. It sometimes takes longer, however.
q

I think the point of the thread was to purposely aggravate the colon to get everything out and then the OP would be fine for a long period after that, since there wouldn't be anything left inside until it built up again. I think some patients can be in this kind of sweet spot where you could successfully do this. Probably wouldn't help you get better long term though but it is a way to manage the disease during certain periods so that you can live your life, at least for several hours anyway and then you are back to square one all over again. Kind of like a Groundhog Day movie. Most patients probably wouldn't be able to do this but some patients, like this one, have found a way to run their UC's life instead of UC running their life.

I could not drink coffee or caffeinated tea before remission. In fact it was a happy time to reach the point of being able to drink caffeinated coffee again. It's (2) cups of half-caff in the morning for me.

Research shows that coffee (not too much daily) is beneficial to us. But a UC colon will let you know whether caffeine will be tolerated or not. Weirdly my gut does not like green tea but coffee is fine. Boohoo because I love tea too.

What's a low acid coffee, I'm interested please.

I know lots of people who have a cup of coffee in the morning to have their "morning poo," including me. As others have said, it's not because it's aggravating your colon, it's because it's triggering peristalsis. However, I do feel that coffee might aggravate your colon if you're in a flare.

All that said, I don't really think it's a good idea to be using a mesalamine enema to trigger a BM.

arizonahiker....you have very interesting (meaning weird) concepts and word choices that are incorrect and misguided....you need a different map/gps methinks.

Pretty expensive waste of meds.

We all sh t....what goes in eventually gets variedly processed and comes out. If you're flaring or have IBS, bms can be faster or even stopped.

So coffee makes you go...that doesn't have any bearing on the quality of your UC at any given point.

I drink coffee(about 5 cups) breakfast and (1 - 4 cups depending if I'm home our out) supper....I have morning bms, not evening. But if I'm flaring and depending on how fast my colon is functioning, if there's stool or whatever in the lower colon, anything will trigger a bm.

I miss the concept of "it's working" pertaining to your situation...scheduling bms with consistency in the morning seems the best time for most people.

q