Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Safe coffee or coffee substitutes?

Wow, I miss coffee too. I've only been doing Heather's diet for a week and a half, but I drastically cut down on my coffee probably about two years ago - when I finally put two and two together that coffee was causing me to have cramps and sometimes D about 75% of the time I had it. I cut back to about ONE coffee a week and I got much better. I continued this way until about two months ago, when even the one a week became too much for me.

I find that there is a HUGE discrepancy between brands and types of coffee, though. Starbucks regular hot coffee is like Ex-Lax to me - I can not tolerate it one bit. However their iced frappacinos, for some reason, were much more tolerable. For regular hot coffee, I found I was able to tolerate Tim Hortons when I only had it once a week (until, like I said, about two months ago). Now I don't drink any.

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IBS-A since age 12, and fructose sensitive; with the exception of my pregnancy, have been following Heather's diet since Nov. 19, 2007.
Taking 12g of Acacia per day. Relatively stable since March 2008!

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