Why would my ability to drink milk change? I used to love milk. Now I cant tolerate it it gives me stomach aches....confused and alittle pissed

It is not unusual to become intolerant to certain foods (including lactose) after VSG. My surgeon explained that our new sleeves are not quite functioning normally and food molecules end up passing into our intestines differently than before. Not quite as "digested" as with a normal stomach. Our intestines may react negatively to these "new" molecules. The intolerance may be temporary or permanent.

As for me, plain Water, artificial sweeteners and milk all caused stomach pain right after surgery. I simply drank lactaid milk, coconut milk, almond milk, decaf herbal teas, diluted fruit juice and diluted regular (not low cal) sports drinks. The odd thing was I could eat Greek yogurt, cheese and cottage cheese, just not milk. After about 4 months, all of these intolerances went away, and I could finally drink milk and plain water with no problems.

Same here cheese is no problem. Neither is yogurt....go figure

Almond milk dont sound to bad maybe ill try that........tryed ice cream ohhhh boy never again lol...

I believe that lactose levels are lower in cheese and yogurt vs milk. I vaguely remember reading that somewhere.

I'm fine with skim milk, but my stomach doesn't like whole milk! I was out of skim and used whole milk in my protein shake...my stomach was not happy all day long.

Was a lactose free girl before but I pay for a sip of it now. PAY FOR IT. Guess ill try almond or soy for my protein shakes...kinda scared to lol