How bad is your Lactose Intolerance?

I can have: hard cheeses, greek and plain yoghurt, butter

In limited quantities: cream, icecream, white sauces

I can't have: Milk, flavoured yoghurts, soft cheeses

Milk is the worst for me, pain, sickness etc etc etc but I can have it in a white sauce if I have small amounts which I find weird.. maybe cooking with it changes it somehow? Dunno. I'm just glad I dont have to give up cheese lol

Oh yeah, that's an odd point. What's the deal with greek versus plain yogurt? I seem to remember being able to tolerate one of them just fine but not the other...

I digest greek better than plain, but as long as its unflavoured I'm generally fine with the plain stuff too.. as long as its all gluten free I dont know why I react more with the flavoured yoghurts.

I recently bought a yogurt with chicory root in it.... Chicory Root is added to a lot of the flavored stuff and anything with Chicory Root screws me up. I think I remember reading it's a secret fiber that gets added to things and is pretty poorly tolerated by sensitive people.

Isn't Chicory Root a laxative? I guess that would explain the 'poorly tolerated' part.

I developed LI, or at least noticed it a few years after I finished high school, I was probably 20 or 21. It was only because one of my favourite drinks to have was a bubble milk tea, and I started wanting to throw up when ever I had it or even smelt it, I was so upset! Thats when I realised something was not normal and did some research.

For a couple years I could still eat dairy and not suffer too much, some times were worse than others, but now I'm nearly 25 and I can't have ANY dairy otherwise I feel awful, bad stomach pains, constant bloating and all the other unpleasantness! Milk, yogurt, cream, ice cream, cheese....Dammit I love cheese! And cream! I found a lactose-free cheese called Mini-Chol which is good for melting on home-made pizzas, and also a lactose-free cream for cooking, but you cant whip it because it's been processed too much to get rid of the lactose, which is a huge bummer for me because I love whipped cream even more than ice cream! There is an ice cream here in Australia called Cocoluscious which is made from coconut and there are 12 different flavours, yum! I love rice milk and I also drink soy because that's the most common substitute if you go out for coffee. I sometimes have fetta cheese in salads but rarely and only in tiny amounts and haven't noticed too bad a reaction. Its just such a disappointment when you can't go out to a nice restaurant and have what you want on the menu because it has cream or cheese or milk in it! I went out for breakfast once and got scrambled eggs and didn't even think about them putting any milk or cream or butter in it and I was in so much pain afterwards!! It really just doesn't seem worth the pain most of the time.

I didn't know you could get pills to help with LI until very recently. Can someone tell me if they are an over the counter type of thing or do you have to get a doctors prescription??

I can eat dairy because I always use lactaid at the slightest hint of trouble.

I'm okay with lactose free milk, greek yogurt, and hard cheeses, as well as processed cheese, but regular milk, yogurt, and ice cream set me off. I also find that whey and casein in the concentrations found in protein powders sets me off, I did find a pumpkin seed protein powder for those days I'm running really light on protein.

I forgot to mention! Yogurts. Lactaid makes a good LF yogurt which you can find in the dairy section of Wegmans. Walmart also has some good ones from Yoplait! Tastes like the real thing!

Right now, it's just straight milk or MASSIVE quantities of ice cream/cheese.


It started out as just milk though. Seems to be getting worse as I get older:(

Mine isn't so bad. I can't do regular milk or ice cream, though sometimes I will throw caution to the wind for ice cream if it's Blue Bell. I can have cheese, but not too much of it and the processed kind will destroy every fiber of my being. No problems with yogurt or chocolate, though I rarely eat them.

I usually get lactose free milk and now I'm trying almond milk (which is taking some getting used to). I can't take the pills...they make my body want to wear my stomach on the outside :sad:

EDIT: I recently have become unable to eat bread products without getting sick (upchuck city limits). Random and annoying since I love sandwiches, soft tacos and the like. I'm not sure if it's a newly developed gluten allergy or not. I just know it's complete crap :grumble:

Mine is terrible too! Same symptoms + get rashes and spots all over my face! Honestly, I've just learned to deal with it over the years and take soya alternatives for everything hope yurs gets better and doesn't get on your nerves!