coffee

Hi all, been finally able to have a coffee decaf, missed it so much, how many in a day is ok?

I also have no problem unless I go over 4 maybe and drink later in day (not sleeping so well).  NO problem with the UC however.

ElaineNY

Sometimes I'll have a coffee in the morning because it clears the deck, so to speak. If I have to be somewhere at 10:30, Ill have a coffee at 8:00. Then I'm good to go

I know it would be better not to drink it but I look forward to it so much, it's what gets me up in the morning, especially on weekends! I guess I'm addicted.

I try to drink just one large cup. I agree, it's also good for getting my gut cleared out before I have to get in the car and drive to work.
If I drink too much more -- which I do when I'm at a boring meeting in a hotel or something like that -- I feel like crap after.

When I was flaring badly I would give it up, however, and drink tea instead.

It has been two years since my last flare and I finally got up the nerve to drink a soda one day and then coffee. I decided that the soda didn't affect me but it tasted like crap after several years of not having any. The coffee though tasted delicious. I have found that I can drink one or two small cups but not every day. I drink any more and I feel crummy.

Experimenting is definitely the way to go to see if you can tolerate it at all.

and you're still on rowasa nightly?

In the morning, after breakfast, it'll help trigger my bm...but never any other time of the day.  But, that's my time to go and I wait for it. 

q

quincy-

i am on rowasa 5x a week these days

and looks like i typed to soon, my cup of coffee today triggered 3bms, which would have been  fine since there was no pain, a bit of urgency, but on my third bm, i saw a tiny bit of blood streaked on my bm.....

maybe it was too soon to start coffee?

i have done the rowasa the last 4 nights in a row.  the nights i took off, fri and sat- there was no blood at all.  call me crazy but i think its the coffee

i have my gi appt tommorow

it's not the coffee...it's because you should still be on the enemas nightly, no holidays from it.

Triggering bms, yes...it can when there's stool in the sigmoid considering it's a stimulant of the digestive tract. That's in truth why many people ONLY drink coffee in the morning..lol.

How long have you been on the rowasa?

q

I think because you missed two nights in a row wasn't a good thing. But it should be from every night to every second night.

If you bled after the third bm...things could still pretty fragile in there, but if it was only a bit of blood at the end, it could be a fissure?

unless it was around the stool or in with the stool.

What other meds are you on?

q

I can't have coffee at all, regular or decaf. I figured out it was a trigger about 2 years ago and gave it up. Caffeine doesn't bother me (I can drink black tea or sodas without any problems), but coffee will affect me whether it has caffeine or not.

A few months ago, after feeling pretty well, I decided to give some decaf a go. One cup and it affected me within hours and I never got back to normal for 2 weeks (this was on nightly Rowasa). No more coffee for me!

As you can see, some people can have foods/drinks without any problems (many people can't drink sodas but they don't bother me at all, but then I don't have them very often). It really is such an individual thing, nobody can really tell you what is and isn't ok for you. You really do have to figure it out for yourself. Keeping a diary of foods/drinks and symptoms is VERY helpful.