Hey guys! Hoping that ya'll can give me some insight on coffee. I am 3 weeks post op today. I miss my coffee so much. I realize I will not ever be able to enjoy a large cup of coffee because it will take so long to drink it. When did you start coffee and what about creamer? And also, dare I ask, what about Starbucks?????

Thanks guys!

Hey guys! Hoping that ya'll can give me some insight on coffee. I am 3 weeks post op today. I miss my coffee so much. I realize I will not ever be able to enjoy a large cup of coffee because it will take so long to drink it. When did you start coffee and what about creamer? And also, dare I ask, what about Starbucks?????

Thanks guys!

I am now 3 weeks and 2 days out (december15). I tried my first Starbucks 11 days out. It was a tall skinny vanilla latte with soy milk and an extra pump of sf syrup. After my 2 week post op check up, I moved to the same latte with regular skim milk. I have not finished a coffee, but it goes down well and sure does hit the spot.

You do not want coffee your staples are healing why chance any ulcers?

I drank coffee two days after surgery, at the clinic! Then it was only a couple off sips, but now im up to one cup a day, but sometimes i splt it in two, so i can drink it hot!

I have had no trouble, and my nut says a cup a day doesnt hurt.

But then again, listen to what your clinic says...

Coffee(for my program) is discouraged only because of it's diuretic effect. Once I was around 6 weeks out, I could have coffee because I was able to get in my 64+ ounces of clear fluids and hydration was not so challenging. I don't drink Starbucks because we have a little locally-owned coffee house here that I frequent because I like to support our small businesses.

And, just to let you know, the whole sipping, and taking tiny drinks is not forever. I drink like a normal person now without issue, and have been for about a year.

I also drink about 20-30 ounces of coffee on any given with full fat creamer. I do not(have never) used fat free or sugar free creamers. I do keep my coffee in an insulated coffee mug, but that's because I drink so much at one time, and if I use a regular cup, I'm hitting the microwave when it cools off.

Hey guys! Hoping that ya'll can give me some insight on coffee. I am 3 weeks post op today. I miss my coffee so much. I realize I will not ever be able to enjoy a large cup of coffee because it will take so long to drink it. When did you start coffee and what about creamer? And also, dare I ask, what about Starbucks?????

Thanks guys!

i totally love the "I realize I will not ever be able to enjoy a large cup of coffee" part. . .OF COURSE YOU WILL. . . only size small will seem Large! I started drinking coffee (decaf at about 4 weeks out with creamer and enjoyed Starbucks at 3 months out and totally drinking whatever coffee i wanted after that. . . doctor didn't say either way if it was bad or good. His concern was weight loss. . . at one year out I'm livin life to the fullest, still loosing, slowly, but loosing! and lovin my cup of java EVERY DAY

I started drinking coffee about 3 months post-op. I drink probably 4-5 cups of coffee a day at work, and 1-2 when I'm at home. I use creamer, but I have switched to the sugar free kind to keep my carbs down.

coffee is discouraged on my program, as well, because it is so highly acidic. My NUT told me that if I must drink coffee, drink Decaf (less acid), and cut it with half milk.

It also doesn't taste the same to me... tastes bitter and nasty. I started getting Lattes but don't usually even finish them. Just a couple of sips will do ya.

Cinderella

I'm drinking about 3 - 4 cups of coffee a day -- now, I was only drinking tea for the first month or so because I had problems with acid. But now that that seems to have gone by the way side, I'm enjoying my cup o' joe every day

I get an entire cup of milk and heat it up. I add a little bit of de-caf and splenda. That way, I get Protein from the milk. I am allowed coffee, just only de-caf. I just keep it in one of the coffee mugs that keeps it hot and it does take quite awhile for me to finish it.

On my first weeks list of drinks, there is decaff coffee and skim milk. So, throw those together with a little sugar free vanilla syrup? and it's a drink! I wonder if Bux makes a decaff skinny vanilla latte???

I haven't had coffee in almost a year and you guys are making me want a cup. lol

Love my Keurig!!! And you may not have to always "sip, sip, sip"... I'm 4 weeks post op and as long as I'm 45 minutes past a meal, I can drink like I use to. True that!! I know not everyone is like that, but there is hope!!

I have one medium sized cup of Tim Horton's coffee every morning and I drink it as fast as I ever did. No difference at all! Oh and I'm 8 weeks out.