Mine did not.

I drank lots of herbal teas when I had an ulcer. How you feel about hot tea is how I felt without my coffee. I felt unlike myself.

There are some herbal teas out there that aren't awful. My favorite is Good Hope Vanilla red tea by The Republic of Tea. Red tea is actually rooibos, which isn't tea at all. It's delicious. I add sweetener and just a little bit of cream. Yummo.

No tea seems odd, but I can understand from an acidity point. The only thing I would caution is to take it easy and pay very close attention to how you feel. About a year or so out from my RNY, I started getting a bit crazy with the coffee and started having stomach pains. Turns out it was gastritis from the caffeine, so now I limit myself to two caffeine drinks a day and stick to dark roasts or cold brew, which are less acidic. I haven't had a repeat of the stomach pain since. :D Some folks on here can drink coffee all day, but since that episode, I suspect I've always been sensitive to caffeine, but never realized it.

Jen

HERE IS MY EXPERIENCE!!! LEARNED THE HARD WAY!!!

My surgeon and his NUT recommended reduced coffee and caffeine consumption. It was recommended that I only consumer ONE cup of coffee or tea per day.

The rationale was the caffeine and other acids predisposes a bypass patient to stomach ulcers. The bypass patient is also already pre-disposed.

I did not heed this advice in the years 2-3 postop. Indeed, after discovering my husbands secret, I could not sleep at night and during the day I would drink about 4 cups of coffee during the day to stay awake and thinking.

Between the predisposition for ulcers the surgery gives one, the stress of a marriage going down the tubes, and my "excessive" expresso/coffee drinking I developed a really severe stomach ulcer. I had to take pills and a gross liquid slurry to heal the ulcer for 1.5 months.

Herbal tea (NOT PEPPERMINT TEA MADE WITH BLACK TEA) is ok to have. But my experience has shown-4 cups might be 3 cups too many.

I've never heard of that one before. I live on green tea and water. I second what Erin said about buying enough green tea to keep Dunkin in business!