To wonder why drinking 2 cups of coffee in the morning gives me

[Whiskasonkittens]

A bad stomach?

It's only in the morning it happens, one cup and I'm fine, two cups and I have the runs. It's most bizarre. I'd love a coffee in bed and then another on my way to work but I daren't risk it.

This morning I was supposed to be in work but Ds is ill so I couldn't go in. I had two coffees and ten minutes later was rushing to the toilet.

Because coffee is a mild laxative. Some people are more sensitive to it than others.

What anyone said.

Because caffeine is a laxative! Switch one to decaff.

But I can drink two cups in quick succession the rest of the day and it has no effect.

What Anyone said. This is why people have coffee after a meal - stimulates digestion. Too much, your digestion becomes...over-stimulated. How much is too much depends on your personal sensitivity. I'm a 1 cup girl myself too, 2 and I'm amped and have a bad stomach.

Could your 2nd be a good decaf? I have some Swiss Water decaf whole beans that make a decent coffee.

You might be more sensitive in the morning because that's when you normally 'go' and it's hurrying things a long a bit?

That could be it, time to start looking at decaf. Then I could have my 2nd cup on the way to work without worrying.

There's a strong reflex that links meals with pooing, especially first thing in the morning. People don't tend to notice it because there's a delay, but it's there. First thing that hits you on an empty stomach is a hot cup of laxative, then breakfast giving you that reflex to poo, then more laxative...

Later on in the day I guess the coffee is not on an empty system, so doesn't hit you in the same way, and you've already done your big 'bowel evacuation' for the day.

I'm the same. I can drink coffee all day and be fine but more than one cup in the morning and it doesn't end well!

Are you drinking it on a completely empty stomach or with breakfast? That will be why. Tea has a similar effect on me and also gives me horrendous nausea if I don't eat first. Try saving the second cup for after you've eaten.

It has the same effect on me in the morning, but after that in fine.

A coffee, bowl of porridge and a piece of fruit and you will have the bowels of a champion :-D

I spend a lot if time with the elderly, replace coffee with tea and you have the generally agreed opinion of the old people I have known.

It's not a reflex it's simple, your digestive system like all others is slower when you are asleep because your stomach is emptyonce it's kick started by putting something into it, the whole digestive system fires up again.

Coffee is a stimulant, it stimulates the whole system so the digestive system goes into overdrive

Gastrocolic reflex - has its own Wikipedia page and everything.

I love the phrase "bowels of a champion".

I tend to eat breakfast in between the two coffees, if I'm running late i'll eat toast on the way with the coffee.

Gastrocolic, that's the one. Thanks parallax.