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Ive been very careful to not eat dairy for the past week but yesterday when I was out with a friend I started to feel really sick in my stomach and at some points I thought I was going to throw up. I eventually went home and got to use the bathroom but I continued to feel like I was going to vomit. I went to sleep, felt good during the night, but suddenly when I rolled over and sat up this morning I’m really nauseous and sick and I wish I’d just throw up but I’m currently running late for work because I’m on the toilet and I’m just so stressed out which is what I think causes this in the first place and I just hope I throw up at work so they can force me to go home because I can’t call out.

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My goal isn’t to lose weight by going dairy free (but as it cuts out a shit ton of junk food...)

Anyway, in the past day I’ve lost almost two pounds, so thats kinda cool. It would have been less if I’d of peed last night before I weighed myself but oh well 🤷‍♂️

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When you’re lactose intolerant but don’t know what your triggers are

So I can eat a whole cheese pizza at once and feel the effects of it by being on the toilet for the next 24 hours but if I drink two cups of hot chocolate in a span of thirty minutes then I’ll immediately die??

Or if I eat some milk chocolate and lightly buttered popcorn at the beginning of Ant Man and the Wasp I’ll be writhing in pain by the end of it? But the next day it takes three hours for a muffin to affect me whatsoever

Science?!?

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Being lactose intolerant and realizing that no one on tv is

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When you’re lactose intolerant and in a dairy-free phase so you justify spending $200 during a 15% off sale at the Health Basket.

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Things that offend me

Milk

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See also: “Things I can’t tolerate”

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Transgender problem #502

Heart burn from wearing your binder for weeks at a time

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I’m not too upset but uh

While I’ve been pretty good about checking ingredients and asking if there’s dairy when I can- Ive still been having a few random cramps and unhealthy restroom breaks at work. I couldnt figure out what it was so I narrowed down what I’ve been eating and a thought occurred to me as I was having eggs this morning again at work... they use a pre-packaged egg mix... which probably has milk in it... long story short I later looked and there was skim milk in the eggs I’ve been funneling into my mouth so my three days dairy-free have actually been three days dairy-free except for the god damned eggs.

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Today ends day three of no dairy and I’ve done so well to avoid a ton of tempations. I work in a retirement home as a housekeeper/dining staff server so a lot of the time Im around food and can get free meals but yesterday they had waffles for breakfast so I had fruit and eggs, today there was biscuits and sausage gravy (my all time favorite breakfast they serve) but no- no more- I had eggs and fruit and Im so proud of myself.

I’m not a believer in the idea that by eating more dairy you’ll force your body to develop more lactase and of course I want dairy in the future but I have a (bad) feeling that by cutting out dairy I’ll be more sensitive to it when I do have some. I’ll just cross that bridge when I get to it though.

In all honesty who doesn’t want to be different from those around them, this is something that makes me even more different than my friends and family and it’s kind of cool... but either in a gross or in a “no I can’t eat that with the rest of you” kind of way 😅

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Me: I’m not lactose intolerant, see

*eats pizza, ice cream, some cake, and drinks a glass of milk*

Me: I’m fin-

*runs to the bathroom*

1 hour later

*crawling on the floor away from the bathroom*

Me: okay maybe there’s something to that

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#inspired

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My dad: so you’ve been having more diarrhea than usual, vomiting, and feeling really unwell for the past month?

Me: well yeah

My dad: what did you eat last night?

Me: pizza, but-

My dad: dairy? And the time before you last threw up?

Me: I dont know?? Ice cream?

My dad: ... dairy?

Me: your point is....

My dad: you’re lactose intolerant

Me: impossible

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Hi, I’m Elijah and I’m a lot of things but on this blog I just want to make relatable posts and rant/vent about work or the lactose intolerance that I’m constantly struggling with. I’m also a ftm transgender college student that is currently having a difficulty with finding a balance between work and sleep this summer but 🤷‍♂️ when I get the chance to make a doodle I will.

I’ve probably been lactose intolerant for a year or two but it only got really bad in January and that was when I had to face the music. My relationship with dairy has been up and down but I’m trying to be better about it for the sake of my future roommates who I don’t want to have to suffer with me.

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“That didn’t last long”

Me two days after going ‘dairy-free’

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“I’m gonna go dairy-free”

Me when I came to terms with being lactose intolerant