• SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Cows milk will make me very sick, but cheese is my weakness. I can tolerate (hard) cheese and a bit of butter, but everything else… Nope. Not even ice cream. Upside is I can eat all the cheese I want and not get stopped up. 🙃🫠

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      8 months ago

      Wait… your version of lactose intolerance is you get “stopped up”?!? My version is dairy-based Draino pressure washing the bowl in brown noisomeness.

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        8 months ago

        Oh, no. Sorry for the confusion. My husband, who is NOT lactose intolerant, will get constipated after eating lots of cheese while I will not.

        Besides the loose bowel movements afterwards, I can also do a fair impersonation of one of the kids from a horror film (the exorcist, maybe) and have it spew from the other end.

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        8 months ago

        Normies get stopped up by cheese, us intolerants counteract the constipation with explosive diarrhea.

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      8 months ago

      The upside is that the best high-dairy foods (ice cream and macaroni) are pretty easy to throw up, so there’s that I guess. I’m not as badly affected as I when I was a kid but I loved macaroni then and I still do. Lactaid pills were a lifechanger.