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Lister
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ok so my stomic has been good to me lately, and i really want to treat myself to coffe or something else with caffine. so a few questions

1. starbucks is it safe? and if not why if so what to order?

2. sodas more specifacly Mountain Dew or Bawlz

im not planning on drinking caffine all the time, but i want some its been along time

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Guhlia Rising Star
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I believe Mountain Dew is gluten free.

CarlaB Enthusiast
CarlaB
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Any drink at Starbucks is okay, EXCEPT Frapps with the chips in them.

Lister Rising Star
Lister
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whats ina frap to begine with? i love the carmel frap but im thinking it probably has milk in it :(... i wanted a cold drink, are the tazo frozen teas gluten-free those are soo fricking good

CarlaB Enthusiast
CarlaB
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If you can't have milk, you are much more limited. The frapps have milk, which makes it so I can't have them. The Tazos are gluten-free, but I don't know whether they have milk. The ones that look creamy, I'm sure do, but the others, I would guess don't, but I'd ask to be sure.

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swittenauer
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Mountain Dew is gluten free. My husband loves those things & I've actually gotten in a bad habit lately of drinking one on the way to work.

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lorka150
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all of the frapps, even if made with soymilk, still have casein in the base.

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CarlaB Enthusiast
CarlaB
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all of the frapps, even if made with soymilk, still have casein in the base.

This is correct. The Tazo teas though, don't use either the coffee or the cream base -- unless you get the creamy ones.

floridanative Community Regular
floridanative
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Has anyone on here ever weaned themselves off caffiene? I have coffee and/or hot tea daily but now I found out it's undoing what I'm trying to do with Calcium/mag./vit D supplements I've recently been told to take due to Osteopenia. At first thought I didn't think I could give up caffiene (or cut back 90% at least) on top of this no gluten thing. Now that I'm not feeling deprived at all regarding gluten, I'm ready to take on the caffiene challenge. I found some imported veg. type drink mix that tastes like coffee and is recommended to wean on off coffee. Clearly on the label it states barley so I can't use it. I really want to start this Sat. so if I feel bad I won't be rude to a client.

The only thing I've heard of is to take both reg. and decaf coffee and brew 1/2 and 1/2 (of each) and drink that for a week. Then you do 1/4 and 3/4 and so on until you are completely on decaf. Has anyone tried this and if so, how long did you take to get totally to the decaf? I'm totally addicted to the real stuff because if I'm sick and don't get any I can't think straight by noon from the withdrawal headache. So I know I've got to cut way back. Studies suggest only 1-2 cups of coffee a week is good for people with any bone density issues. Please help if you can.

angel-jd1 Community Regular
angel-jd1
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Has anyone on here ever weaned themselves off caffiene? I have coffee and/or hot tea daily but now I found out it's undoing what I'm trying to do with Calcium/mag./vit D supplements I've recently been told to take due to Osteopenia. At first thought I didn't think I could give up caffiene (or cut back 90% at least) on top of this no gluten thing. Now that I'm not feeling deprived at all regarding gluten, I'm ready to take on the caffiene challenge. I found some imported veg. type drink mix that tastes like coffee and is recommended to wean on off coffee. Clearly on the label it states barley so I can't use it. I really want to start this Sat. so if I feel bad I won't be rude to a client.

The only thing I've heard of is to take both reg. and decaf coffee and brew 1/2 and 1/2 (of each) and drink that for a week. Then you do 1/4 and 3/4 and so on until you are completely on decaf. Has anyone tried this and if so, how long did you take to get totally to the decaf? I'm totally addicted to the real stuff because if I'm sick and don't get any I can't think straight by noon from the withdrawal headache. So I know I've got to cut way back. Studies suggest only 1-2 cups of coffee a week is good for people with any bone density issues. Please help if you can.

I don't drink to much caffinated stuff. I do go through phases where I drink more than other times. I haven't been to that headachey addicted stage for a few years now though. I would just go cold turkey when I wanted to quit drinking pop. I would pop a couple tylenol when the headache stopped and eventually they stop.

Now, I buy a 12 pack and it lasts me for a couple of months! I might drink a pop when out somewhere, but otherwise I'm just not a caffiene person. I don't drink coffee even!

Good luck getting weaned off of it :)

-Jessica :rolleyes:

CarlaB Enthusiast
CarlaB
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There are other teas that taste like coffee available in the health food section of the grocery. Why not just switch to something like green tea that still has caffeine, but not as much? I discovered in the end that my addiction to coffee was to the cream ... you know how they say you crave what you are intolerant of? I'm casein intolerant. The hard part for me was withdrawal from the casein, the caffeine was no problem!

I'd go cold turkey. Feel like garbage for two days, and be done ... but that's me. Decaf still has some caffeine.

floridanative Community Regular
floridanative
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I'm pretty sure I can't do cold turkey but I think I'll try 3/4 decaf and 1/4 reg. to start and see how that goes. I know decaf has some tiny bit of caffeine but if I only drink decaf and not two cups of reg. a week that's about as good as it gets for me. Tea is a huge part of my life and something in the tea (not the caffeine) has been proven to reduce risks of ovarian cancer. I'm not giving up my tea unless I become intolerant to it and it makes me sick.

Jessica - thanks for making me laugh. It took me a minute to figure out what 'pop' was. We call it soda here. I got a chuckle from you post!

CarlaB Enthusiast
CarlaB
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I'm pretty sure I can't do cold turkey but I think I'll try 3/4 decaf and 1/4 reg. to start and see how that goes. I know decaf has some tiny bit of caffeine but if I only drink decaf and not two cups of reg. a week that's about as good as it gets for me. Tea is a huge part of my life and something in the tea (not the caffeine) has been proven to reduce risks of ovarian cancer. I'm not giving up my tea unless I become intolerant to it and it makes me sick.

Jessica - thanks for making me laugh. It took me a minute to figure out what 'pop' was. We call it soda here. I got a chuckle from you post!

Good luck with it. My hubby has always had trouble getting off it!! He gets headaches.

Where are you from in Florida? My family has been in St. Pete since before 1904.

floridanative Community Regular
floridanative
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I'm from a tiny mill town called Port St. Joe but left at 17. My family now lives in Tallahassee - except for me and I like it that way. We're just close enough but not too close for comfort.

Oh I LOVE St. Pete! There is some engineering work there so I told hubby he should look for work there. He says it's not manufacturing engineering which is what he does - well he's a quality/reliability engineer. I'd love to get back to FL on of these days.

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BRUMI1968
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I am a great quitter. I have quit just about everything you can think of from booze and coffee, from animals to grains, from sucking my thumb to laughing nervously at the end of all my sentences. the one thing I haven't quit yet is quitting...but hopefully someday I'll manage that one. I'll tell you that quitting coffee was physically much harder than quitting cigarettes...at least pain wise.

I think it's possible that it's better to wean - I went cold turkey and the headaches are over the top bad. You might try green tea, if you like the taste of it (genmaicha is good - has toasted rice in it) ... it has a small amount of caffeine, has a lot of good antioxidants, and will help kill the headache pain.

Anyway, good luck to you. I still drink green tea - my goal was to quit coffee not caffeine, and it made a big difference in my digeestion (and my breath, probably -- I hate coffee breath!) black tea has less caffeine than coffee, but more than green tea, so you could go from coffee to black tea, and then to green tea, and then to herbal tea (but watch for gluten).

floridanative Community Regular
floridanative
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Thanks for the helpful tips Bully4You. I know cold turkey is out for me so I'm off to get some decaf. now and then I'll eventually get off coffee too - but for the occasional Starbuck's latte - decaf. I rarely drank coffee at home except when I had house guests. Then when the anemia hit I needed more than my usual tea to get through the day. I know I can do this. It may take a while but it will be worth the effort in the end. Thanks again.

queenofhearts Explorer
queenofhearts
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Thanks for the helpful tips Bully4You. I know cold turkey is out for me so I'm off to get some decaf. now and then I'll eventually get off coffee too - but for the occasional Starbuck's latte - decaf. I rarely drank coffee at home except when I had house guests. Then when the anemia hit I needed more than my usual tea to get through the day. I know I can do this. It may take a while but it will be worth the effort in the end. Thanks again.

I'm a java junkie, & I really think it stems from an attempt to combat my anemic fatigue, so I'm hoping that as I heal I can back off from the caffeine at least a little. But I will note that coffee is actually good for you in some ways-- recent studies have shown protective effects against several ailments. Most recently it was shown to be good for the liver. This is from moderate use though & I think I'm probably beyond the moderate level!

Leah

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Girl Ninja
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Excedrin has a little bit of caffeine in it. It was originally formulated for people experiencing caffeine withdrawal. I've always just quit cold turkey when I felt the need for caffeine becoming obsessive. I can't wean very well. :)

angel-jd1 Community Regular
angel-jd1
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Jessica - thanks for making me laugh. It took me a minute to figure out what 'pop' was. We call it soda here. I got a chuckle from you post!

Yep different regions call it different things.........soda....sod-e.....pop..........I've always found that wierd :)

Usually I just say "hey want a pepsi?" Which stands for any drink in a can that I have available! :lol:

-Jessica :rolleyes:

CarlaB Enthusiast
CarlaB
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Yep different regions call it different things.........soda....sod-e.....pop..........I've always found that wierd :)

Usually I just say "hey want a pepsi?" Which stands for any drink in a can that I have available! :lol:

-Jessica :rolleyes:

:lol: Growing up in Ohio, we used to ask, "Wanna Coke?" Then we'd ask, "What kind, I have Sprite, Coke, Dr. Pepper, etc." LOL I moved away and discovered other places took you literally when you said Coke. I mostly call it soda pop now so I cover all bases no matter where I am! Unless it's for me because Coke is all I drink if I drink it at all.

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CarlaB Enthusiast
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tarnalberry -- posted RED BULL has vitamins, caffeen and etc., on another thread and I found out when looking up info on Pedilyte, that Open Original Shared Link it's not as bad as you would think... Open Original Shared Link

My 16 year old son is staying with a friend in Indiana all week. His friend is one of 7 boys, so this mom is experienced with their energy levels. The first day there, his mom forbid my son to have anymore Red Bulls while he stays in her house!! :lol::lol: Can't wait to talk to her to find out why!! Apparently, they do help with energy level!!

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