Hi All, just in the last 3 months I have become Lactose intolerant. Would you know if this is normal?

Yes, I think it is normal and temporary. Give your body a rest from all dairy for a month and your intestine's ability to produce lactase (enzyme which breaks down milk sugar or lactose)should return. If you take lactaid, your body will give up trying and you will be living with it forever. When you start back go very slow in re introducing dairy.Good luck...

I think it is a bigger problem than doctors and patients know. Every time I read a post about diarrhea and gas I think...aha, it has happened to someone else, too. I am slowly regaining my ability to tolerate small amounts of dairy but try to stick to lactose free milk....I even make my own yourt with lactose free milk.

Good luck,

Mimi

The GI tract's lining has little protrusions (villi) all over it which are too small to see. They get sloughed off with any trauma as in diarrhea. These villi are what makes lactase and they need rest to grow back. I sometimes think the majority of lap band docs dont know very much about a lot of things...

Sort of, yes. I do drink milk, mainly on Cereal and in coffee - but cappucinos and lattes can really turn my stomach and make me feel ill - cold milk or a dash in ordinary coffee is fine though. So not lactose intolerant, but a bit dairy sensitive. However, since I had a bowel resection and got a temporary ileostomy, you do have very liquid output at first, but for me, the diarrhoea has persisted for over 8 months, its got both my surgeon, the stoma nurse and I quite puzzled as it does not respond to the common thickening foods nor does it respond to immodium. I'm hoping that when my stoma is closed in a few weeks time and my colon is recalled to action, it does its job of absorbing Fluid and the diarrhoea goes away.

So I tolerate milk in small quantities - I wouldnt dream of drinking a milk shake or Protein shake though, I've never liked milk that much anyhow and I know that Protein shakes really give me horrid bloating and gas - and made with Water, they're hideous.

The other thing that happened to me - I now get car sick, horribly sea sick, cant go on rides. No idea why but its since banding.