Dairy/lactose Intolerance?

Yep. same for me. I had IBS and stopped as much dairy as possible and it helped. I mainly have small amounts of cheese and very little milk or I get sick. Hope you feel better!

Lactaid milk or some house brand, in-store, private label knock off.

I'm trying to understand the problem?

stop consuming dairy. It wouldn't be so much of a problem if Almond milk had as much protein as dairy milk!

There are other sources of protein other than cow's milk. But if that's your preferance, buy lactose-free milk or use lactaid pills.

I was having some terrible symptoms with bloating, pain, and just a bunch of stuff that made me feel awful. I have known for years that I'm lactose intolerant (like, even as a baby couldn't drink cow's milk), but continued to eat a limited dairy diet. One day I decided I couldn't take it any more and went on an Organic/Gluten-Free/Dairy-Free/Soy-Free and anti-inflammation diet. It took me a while to get organized, but eliminating dairy was an easy way to start. After a few days, about half of my symptoms disappeared. After a month now, I do feel, generally, a lot better. Not perfect, but I actually feel good a lot of the time now.

I believe gluten and dairy are the big offenders. The anti-inflammation diet removes sugar, artificial sweeteners, stuff with chemicals in it, as well as foods like corn, potatoes, and tomatoes which are very inflammatory foods. I wish I would have tried this 10-15 years ago as I have spent most of my adult life in an uncomfortable state. No miracles, but definitely worth the big change.

Here is a link to the lactose content of some dairy products. I can see now that sharp cheeses and butter are less likely to offend than a glass of milk or ice cream. I do incorporate a small amount of butter into my diet and it doesn't seem to adversely affect me.

http://www.foodintolerances.com.au/downloads/lactose-food-table.aspx

Oh, if your pain is on the right side, it could be your gall bladder. Gall bladder attacks can be triggered by diet and can last anywhere from hours to a month or more.

Also, use caution if you replace your dairy with soy products as people with dairy intolerance are often intolerant of soy products as well.. like me. I use almond milk and rice milk to replace milk, but there's no real good replacement for yogurt unless you can tolerate soy.

Milk isn't good for you, anyways. I could go on and on but,

yes you're probably in pain because of dairy. If I accidentally have something with milk in it, I get crampy and gassy and gross. :embarassed:

I'm allergic to dairy and lactose intolerant, that doesn't happen to me, but you may have a more severe allergy to it. Just cut it out if need be. There's dairy-free options for just about anything.

I actually prefer almond milk to dairy milk, it's just more expensive. I LOVE dairy free cheese (Daiya) but again, much more expensive. Dairy free yogurt sucks. Have never tried dairy free cream cheese/sour cream yet though.

Dairy free sour cream/cream cheese isn't good honestly. It just tastes like tofu. But, oddly enough, pillsbury and Duncan Hines cream cheese frostings are dairy free!

I do believe that Ezekiel bread is gluten free..it just might be pricey. If you don't like it, then try going to Whole Foods. They have all kinds of breads. You can get lost in the bakery section looking for bread because it's full of gluten free, vegan, gluten free vegan, regular, and sweet breads.

Dairy free yogurt only sucks if you get the greek kind. Yuck. I like So Delicious blueberry flavor and strawberry banana. c: It definitely deserves that name~

Also if you want to replace ice cream, that's ridiculously expensive. :c I only get it on occasion. A less pricier option is getting a fruit sorbet. Or there's a coconut sorbet at target that's 3 dollars and it's super yummy.

And if you do still want to try veganism, giving up things will be hard at first, but only because of the hormones in milk. It's addictive. Especially when it's concentrated like in cheese. After that, it's easy.

I don't remember which brand of yogurt I bought...but it was pretty gross. I will have to check out the ones you mentioned.

It's not so much giving up the actually dairy/eggs...it's giving up everything CONTAINING dairy/eggs. I have not found a single brand of gf bread that doesn't contain eggs. There are a ton more thing but basically that's the issue. I know I shouldn't eat processed stuff anyways but I can't give up EVERY processed item!

I don't waste my money on expensive gf baked goods. They are outrageously priced, hard to find and they usually taste like crap anyway. I bake my own and use powdered egg replacer if a recipe calls for eggs. Just finished off the last of my gf zucchini bread. Although to be honest, it was more like a zucchini cake - total sugar bomb. I mostly use white corn tortillas to make wraps instead of bread for sandwiches. Good thing I was always more of a pasta girl than a bread one. There are tons of awesome gf pastas out there.

I do believe that Ezekiel bread is gluten free..it just might be pricey. If you don't like it, then try going to Whole Foods. They have all kinds of breads. You can get lost in the bakery section looking for bread because it's full of gluten free, vegan, gluten free vegan, regular, and sweet breads.

I recently bought a bread machine and have been baking my own GF bread, but before that I bought Franz Bakehouse Gluten Free Bread, which is sold in the bread aisle. It's pretty pricey and the loaves are small, but they have white and 7 grain GF bread and taste pretty good. Franz brand "may" be limited to the pacific northwestern USA. Not sure.

Ezekiel makes a flourless bread, but it still contains gluten. I love their bread.

I went without dairy for a week and a half. About 4 days ago I consumed some and I have been sick ever since. The worst part is where I get pain in my stomach/side that is only felt on one side, and only hurts when I stand up or am walking. It seems to get worse and worse until I lie down. It is so bad that I can barely breathe and actually have to lie down. I'm not sure if this is actually from consuming dairy, or if it's just a coincidence. I remember experiencing this before when I would binge on ice cream and I thought it was because of eating too much sugar, but now it's happening when I don't eat a lot of sugar.
Has anyone else felt this pain before? I don't know if I should be worried. I do have an appointment with my dr. on Wednesday so I will bring it up, but he has already said that since I have celiacs, I should avoid dairy so he will probably just say to stop consuming dairy. It wouldn't be so much of a problem if Almond milk had as much protein as dairy milk!

If the pain has been going on for four days, you should probably call your doctor now, or go to an after hours clinic tonight, or to emergency. If it's so bad you can barely breathe, you don't want to try to diagnose yourself.

I once thought I was having a heart attack, but it was actually an infection in my gall bladder. I had emergency surgery, and later found out that people sometimes die from gall bladder problems if they aren't treated in time. I'm not trying to scare you, but please take care of yourself!

I am lactose intolerant too, and when I figured that out I started using Lactaid pills. They really helped for a little while, then I found I was still feeling ill after taking them and eating dairy. Well, a little experimentation later, I found that dairy with no pills made me kind of ill, but dairy with the pills made me violently, have-to-decide-which-end-to-aim-at-the-toilet ill. So apparently I started to react to the binder in the pills. So just something to consider.