Tanya:  I am intolerant and know just from doing the usual detective
work.....have milk products get sick--stay off, am fine.....I have a definite reaction
with GI problems.....why don't you just stay off milk products for six months and
see if that doesn't help?  I have found that staying off milk products is not
such a hard thing to do...except at conventions, etc. where you don't have choices
in your meals.....
On 3/26/99, Milk/Casein/Lactose-Free List wrote:
>I had been mysteriously sick for 6 years so my doctor recently put me on an
>elimination diet to see if food was causing the problem.  With no doubt it
>turned out to be milk that was the culprit.  But now I don't know if I'm
>allergic or intolerant, and I'm broke from my last visit to the doctor so I
>can't afford to have any more tests done yet (my insurance is a rip off!).
>I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice.
>
>I'm beginning to think it's intolerance because I mostly deal with GI
>problems when I have milk.  And I seem to react differently to various
>products (I have eaten some cheedar cheese without major effect).  If I have
>any symptoms right away, they are headaches and GI problems, but the rest of
>the symptoms seem to be cummulative.  If I have a large portion of dairy in
>one day, the next day and days after, I have a "hangover."  Circles under my
>eyes, fatigue, headache, achy muscles and joints, nausea, sometimes but
>rarely sinus problems. I have never had skin problems directly related to
>one incident of eating dairy, but over the 6 years of being sick, my skin
>got progressively sensitive sometimes getting a rash or hives.  But that is
>no longer a problem since the diet.
>
>I have considered giving my body a couple more dairy free weeks and then
>testing myself to see how I react again.  Or trying Lactaid to see if that
>helps. But knowing that an allergic reaction could be life threatening if
>this is what it is, I'm hesitant.  What's been your experiences?
>
>Thanks so much,
>
>Tanya Bumgardner
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