Drip Coffee very painful
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For some reason regular drip coffee causes me immense intestinal pain and cramping. It does not necessarily cause diarrhea or a Bowel movement but causes immense pain, depression, anxiety , headache, urgent urination, tunnel vision etc. It is not the caffeine content as I consume about 3 or 4 cans of 8 oz redbull daily. I also find espresso to not cause such severe symptoms and be more tolerable. Anytime I look online I just see garbage about caffeine causing this, which is clearly not the case. Tea also produces similar effects especially with painful urinary urgency. I have had severe gut problems for the past 10 years, which I have found to be helped by thiamine. Thiamine changed my life, but still even with it coffee is not very tolerable despite how much I enjoy it.
Background:
I had taken 4 months of antiobiotics for acne and then 5 months of accutane about 14 years ago. I noticed some changes in my body after taking these but always was tolerable until about 2-3 years later when all hell broke loose and I simply wanted to die from the severe GI pain and 24/7 nausea that I suffered with. I don’t know what happened to me and I’ve never been the same since. -
Have you tried the carrot salad? Not to be a meme, but it really is one of the seven habits of highly effective people.
It sounds like it's not just drip coffee or teabags that cause you GI pain. Have you figured out what foods do or do not cause you noticeable discomfort? Do you have a bowel movement at least once per day?
As an aside, I avoid drip coffee in general. You should not drink boiling hot water that was inside a plastic container. A French press or a pour-over is the way to go.
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when was the last time you cleaned its insides? mold and yeast can occur in the internals of drip coffee makers. you can add white vinegar + water to the reservoir and run that through a brew cycle to sanitize the insides of the machine, then run a couple more cycles with just water to remove the residual garbage + vinegar solution.
many drip makers don't get hot enough for an ideal brew so that could be throwing something off as well.
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@AstralPMP I've tried the carrot salad, but has not helped this issue. No other food causes such a severe reaction like coffee does. It is also near instant and can even be within minutes after taking the first sip where I am experiencing severe intestinal pain/cramping. I don't make my own coffee only get it out at coffee shops. Espresso and espresso based drinks don't cause as severe of a reaction.
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@bubble Hmmm. That's puzzling. I know that drip coffee is often ground when it is packaged and that pre-ground coffee often harbors more mold than packages of whole beans.