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0 pointsthrowawaytwit91mo ago0 comments

It may not work for you but I had years of chronic heartburn. While sick with covid in 2020, I stopped consuming coffee and alcohol. It took a few months and for the long covid symptoms to subside, and then no more heartburn. At all. I felt really dumb that I never connected it to coffee before. I didn’t experience direct symptoms from coffee and I didn’t consume an excess amount. But it definitely was the cause.

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jb19911mo ago

The kind of coffee you drink can make a huge difference as well. Filter coffee is typically larger in volume so there’s more acidic liquids going in to trigger your heartburn. Compared to espresso which is usually a smaller volume. It can be a huge difference in heartburn between coffee types.

reverius421mo ago

I'm a couple weeks into giving up coffee because of heartburn, and yeah, this tracks... unfortunately. I've replaced heartburn with heartache (having given up a beverage I've enjoyed daily for over 20 years).

jb19911mo ago

What kind of coffee were you drinking? I replaced filter coffee with espresso and my heartburn went away.

throwawaytwit9OP1mo ago

Good luck, my friend. I’m right there with you. It’s not the physical effects but the rituals and the social connections that I miss. I felt the same with coffee as I did with smoking, which I quit about 20 years ago. It’s remarkable how much these simple vice shape our daily lives.

wafflemaker1mo ago

Yup. Discovered me and my dad have ADHD at pretty much the same time. In our case (very stimulant sensitive) we had to quit coffee to use ADHD meds. While I eventually switched to Inka (a roasted grain coffee substitute) when I saw how my heart results get better without coffee, he still struggles. He recently quit meds for some time due to unwanted symptoms and told me how he was away with some friends and deeply relished being able to normally drink coffee again.

james-bcn1mo ago

I can confirm that eliminating coffee can make a big difference.

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jb19911mo ago

reverius421mo ago

jb19911mo ago

What kind of coffee were you drinking? I replaced filter coffee with espresso and my heartburn went away.

throwawaytwit9OP1mo ago

wafflemaker1mo ago

james-bcn1mo ago

I can confirm that eliminating coffee can make a big difference.

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