ayumidah / (no subject) (Reply)

So this month has been a bit of a mess. I had a cold, I had... female stuff going on, BUT possibly the worst of it was I began having digestive issues, which started at the end of March. I couldn't figure it out, I thought at first maybe it was a bug, but it kept happening and kept happening and kept happening. Then I narrowed it down to ... it was worse whenever I ate or drank anything with milk. Which leads to one awful discovery. Apparently I've become lactose intolerant. YAY. If you know me, you know I love cheese and chocolate milk so what a damn blow. So I took a few days and I drank no chocolate milk and I ate only a minimal amount of cheese once, because I didn't feel like cooking and the TV dinner I chose had a small portion of macaroni and cheese in it. Everything stabilized. Not perfect, but a lot better. But I wasn't giving up hope completely; when I was a kid, my mother cleaned this woman's house and she was lactose intolerant, so I knew about lactaid pills. So after confirming that it was the milk, when I went shopping yesterday, I found a 12 count box of Lactaid at Walmart and bought them.

Supper was a cheeseburger; snack during anime was this lemon pastry which claimed milk, and a SMALL glass of chocolate milk just to test. Took a lactaid pill with each, and then waited. And waited. Nothing like before, when I couldn't even take a sip of chocolate milk without suffering for it. So I think, with some care and buying more of those pills, I'm going to be just fine. Whew.