Any lactose intolerant people here?

    1. How did it start? Have you always been intolerant since birth?


    2. What do you do? Do you avoid dairy at all costs, do you take a supplement (enzyme), or do you ignore your own intolerance and drink/eat dairy (and then regret it)?


    3. And to what extent are you intolerant? Is it only pure milk or literally anything that has traces of milk/dairy in it?


    For me, as a kid I wasn't lactose intolerant and dairy/milk was a normal part of my diet. When I was in high school I stopped drinking milk for some time, and then when I started again I was suddenly intolerant to it.


    Nowadays I don't drink milk (I use lactose free milk whenever I eat cereal or bake). Cheese doesn't make me sick unless it's a lot, so whenever I eat pizza I never choose one that has a lot of cheese. As for baked goods, it's all fine unless they are heavy on milk - last month half a slice of tres leches cake had me in bed with a lot of pain in my stomach. Ice cream is also a no no.


    What about you guys?

    I am.

    I think I was intolerant all my life but it became bigger discomfort as I got older.


    I mostly become super bloated and get stomachache.


    I mostly use plant based milk and lactose free yogurt.


    I barely eat ice cream but when I do I just suck up the consequences lol


    I actually have the worst reaction to cheese, I can be in pain whole day for a slice of pizza. So I avoid it.

    I'm getting more and more intolerant as a I get older. For the most part I can ignore it because I love cheese too much.

    I am. I had an allergy test done in 2003 and it turned out I am lactose intolerant across the board as I suffer from IBS. I am vegan anyway so don't drink cow's milk but still eat yogurt but like it too much to give it up. I am aware of my symptoms and what triggers it.

    I only got it in my late twenties :~(. Prior to that, I could savor any type of dairy products and ice cream. But nowadays, there's some limit before IBS is triggered, like up to 5 scoops of Ben & Jerries at one serving. Gone were the ways of guilt-tripping on a tub ;(

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