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pegmarie 09/04/2013

last night I stayed up late watching a movie, so when I got up I was tired, and decided to have some coffee this morning. Since my surgery I haven't drank much coffee because every time I do my tummy gets upset.
Well I think I know why. I drink a shake every morning so I can take a pile of pills, several need to be taken with 'food'. Of course my shake is cold, but the coffee, which tasted wonderful, was hot. I sipped my coffee while I made my shake, and when it was done I worked on both, for about 45 min. I still had about 1/4 of my shake and my coffee left to finish when all of a sudden I started to feel really bad. Light headed, heart pounding, really shaky and cold, and I urgently needed to head to the bathroom. I am sure this was dumping, but was it because of the hot and cold or something else?
BTW I got up early and was sipping on ice water for about 2 hours prior heading to the kitchen for 'breakfast'. By itself ice water doesn't bother me unless I drink it too fast, and if it's not ice water I can't stand the taste.
Thanks for any help you can give!!

deleted_user 09/04/2013

I have not yet had dumping so I can't say anything about that however .... I can not drink anything that's ice cold . I'm almost 3 weeks post op and ice water hurts. Coffee is a natural diarrhetic, do you think that might be the issue ? If I drank coffee I'd be running to the bathroom in less then 30 minutes.

deleted_user 09/04/2013

Was the coffee caffeinated because that would do it.

Lcat4 09/04/2013

I have protein coffee every morning so I don't have any suggestions. It is not normally a problem. Did you use milk? I find my stomach likes silk soy milk better for mixing coffee and protein

pegmarie 09/04/2013

no caffeine too much arthritis for that
I use no cow's milk at all I am WAY to intolerant to lactose since my surgery.

What I want to know is if the mixing of hot and cold could do that.
Has anyone else had that experience?
I had soup this afternoon and that was fine, but had nothing else that was cold out of fear of that happening again.

Boo1962 09/05/2013

Peg,

Are you saying if you have arthritis, that you shouldn't have caffeine? I have never heard that.

I'm a coffee drinker, and I have osteoarthritis in knees, hip, back...but drink coffee. I am pre-op, and would like to find out.

Thanks,

Boo

goldenrivers 09/05/2013

I don't think I have heard of anyone mixing hot and cold and dumping, but everyones tummies are different. Early on I had the same thing but with sf pudding mixed with tramadol for pain. I added vanilla pro powder instead of unflavored, and it hit me like a truck. :)
I make mocha pro shakes, no coffee, brewed yet. I was a big fan of vreamer, and don't want to mourn that loss yet, so I avoid the coffee maker.

SgtSmith 09/05/2013

I drink coffee regularly. for the first few months it wasn't allowed. The cold drinks were hard to take for several months.

rbd74 09/06/2013

I don't think it is the hot cold combo. I think it is the drinking and eating combo. Now I know technically a protein shake is a drink, however it has a lot of nutrients. If your shake has a bit too much sugar and you are flushing it with coffee then you can get dumping. And if you are using sweetener, sugar or substitute, and if your milk replacement has sugar the dumping effect could be stronger.

Try checking all the labels. Then do an experiment, drink the shake and ice water, if you still dump then you know temperature has nothing to do with it.

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