If you have issues with caffeine, decaffeinated coffee is often off limits as well. Decaffeinated coffee isn't caffeine free coffee. There's a limit to the process.

Also, if you have issues with caffeine and have never drank coffee before, why ever start? It seems like a thing you could just never do and be fine with.

Not to mention, what if the problem isn't with the caffeine, but something else in the coffee. Decaf doesn't fix that.

IBS?