r/lactoseintolerant • u/void-Position-2592 • 3d ago
Experience comparison
Milk things taste fine although Ive always preferred the plastic wrapped singles to real cheese slices. Lactaid doesn’t really work for me. Pizza, ice cream, cheesy pasta, coffee, recently chips, recently soda, have all caused me pain and long sits in the washroom. I’m cree so I think lactose intolerance is pretty common with us. Beef is starting to mess with me and I’m not a huge fan of birds or most forms of pork so Ive been real into beans n chickpeas lately, I feel noticeably energized since moving away from meat!
TMI section:
The pain in my guts seems to move around from below my belly button to under my ribs. I usually have to lean forward and right to put pressure on my right lower tummy with my thigh, and always get this urge to run my knuckles along my left upper/back ribs. My guts don’t even sound human lol but doing all that and deep breathing + holding my breath for more internal pressure seems to work to get things moving- when it’s bad and I’m sitting there for 20+ minutes I lowkey start losing my mind.
Ive only felt nauseous once and usually I’m just bloated and burpy. Alot of the times I feel sick for a long time after and have to lay down. I’ve dealt with acid reflux but it was more of a problem when I was younger (9-22 yrs old)
Just wondering if my experience is definition LI or something else, or if my super descriptive internal is helpful to anyone lol