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Heya,

Just wondering if anyone has any problems having tea or coffee, I have read in different circles that you shouldn't have caffine for a while, does this include cups of tea, what can you subsitute it with? Also what about diet cola with no caffine?

Suzii

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Here is my experience with coffee and tea. First, let me say this is my personal opinion and personal experience. Second, no doctor told me to avoid coffee and tea.

I have found that drinking any form of caffeine can over stimulate the gastric juices in my tummy and cause some indigestion. So keep that in mind when drinking caffeine. I have also found that a diet cola or any diet drink just isn't worth the aftertaste to me. I try to stay away from any kind of carbonated drink. It just fills my stomach too much and doesn't leave me room for the good things. Caffeine is just not good for our bodies in general.

Now having said all that, I do find an occasional cup of coffee after a meal to be rather enjoyable. LOL!! So I find a substitution for the coffee fix. I drink Raja's Cup which is an Indian Coffee. Very NICE and gives me the coffee flavor without the caffeine. I was a HUGE VENTI CAFFE MOCHA STARBUCKS fiend for a long long time. I have broken that habit now. If I want that coffee flavor I fix a cup of Raja's or drink some herbal tea all Decaf I might add.

The caffeine does horrible things to my body. I get headaches, heart palpitations, and I am bouncing off the walls. So I avoid it now. I find I am feeling lots better.

SORRY this is so long but had to share. LOL!!!

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Thanks for this thread cause I was wondering the same thing. It seems everyone has been told something different. I LOVE coffee...can't be without it. My Dad was/is a huge coffee drinker, and he has switched to decafe...and is trying to get me on board with him...but I dunno...Maybe one day....I have given up so many things and this is one Im not ready to give up yet. I threw out the regular sugar even and am now using Equal. I dont get Starbucks coffee anymore...and I don't get Dunkin Donuts coffee anymore...Just plain ol' java made at home....Folgers coffee bags..so I make it by the cup rather than the pot! I love it in my blue spider coffee mug :rolleyes: (Yes, everyday is Halloween for me!!)

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coffee COFFE COFFEE-YES YES YES

I play on the Jack Team, except for a shot of half&half. No sugar, flavorings, etc.. Just a good bean!

The only carbonated beverage I've had is Mike's Hard Lemonade...I pour it over Ice and that takes care of the small amount of carbonation in them..I've happily said good bye to Diet Coke/Pepsi. I had a small taste a couple of weeks ago. I had actually stopped the soda a couple of weeks prior to surgery. I seem to have lost the taste for it.

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I too love Starbucks, and haven't had one in three months WHOA!! I am so afraid of the "liquid calories" that I just completely stay away.

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I went to see the dietician and she said the same thing that coffee and tea are ok but just be careful the first little bit. I love my coffee so this is the best news ever! but she also mentioned about the gas, so i will just have to see.

*hugs*

Suzii

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Coffee! Coffee! Coffee! but with 1/2 & 1/2 and some dark muscovado sugar. (I had to buy a new french press when I got back to ID because I left mine on the counter... next to the butter bell... sigh. I suppose one can't have too many french presses...

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Vines, what is a butter bell?

I was told that for ever cup of caffine you drink you have to drink 2 cups of Water to make up for it, as caffine adds to dehydration. Anyone else ever hear this?

I have Dunkin Doughnuts Decaf with a shot of french vanilla (all of their flavors are sugarfree) and a splenda and some fatfree cream, it is really good and takes care of that coffee craving. I also have them iced and they are also good. I make iced coffee at home as well with the DD Beans as I am fond of the rich flavor they seem to have. Not sure if this helps anyone but this is what I am doing. ~Mandy

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Heya,

Just wondering if anyone has any problems having tea or coffee, I have read in different circles that you shouldn't have caffine for a while, does this include cups of tea, what can you subsitute it with? Also what about diet cola with no caffine?

Suzii

(full of questions)

i was told you can have Decaf only

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Didn't have any coffee for the first 6 weeks after surgery, was drinking lots of tea, but then was able to drink coffee, and I am having several cups a day, even an iced trippio expresso at Starbucks in the afternoon. I don't have iced or hot coffee after 5pm.

The doc told me that I have to have to drink the same amount of Water if I am going to be drinking this much coffee. I am drinking alot more coffee now than I did before the surgery though.

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The first couple of weeks post-op I could not handle coffee at all. It tasted weird and made my tummy cranky. I thought "Oh no! I've lost my best friend!! (cue sappy organ music)" :angry: But, over time my taste for coffee has returned, although I drink MUCH less that I did before surgery. Almost never have any after my morning mug - and if I do, it's Decaf. :biggrin2:

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