lactose intolerance and digestive blues

maglets
maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
in Colorectal Cancer #1

I hate to trouble you with a topic we have talked about before but lately I have had some serious digestive blues.......5 years out of chemo....stage 4 with 2 liver resections and a colon resection.  Lately running to the loo frequently.....gosh why does diarrhea have to be sooo hard to spell....i never know how.  So I had diagnosed fat consumption.....loss of gall bladder with liver resction so not doing well with fat.....So for about a year I have cut fat intake wayyyy back like 3 grmas per meal.....sortal living on cauliflower.  Then I had a glass of milk and I was floored.....the runs, the headaches the cramps ....and the light came on and I thought.....lactose intolerance.   So I removed dairy and bingo ......way better.  Have been searching the web and the ability to process lactose seems to decrease with age but also can be influenced by chemo

has anybody else found a problem with ice cream or milk after  chemo.....or is it just ageCry

thanks......mags

we are still up north in the bush but I am just in town with internet for the day.  Rotten cold summer here.....just won't warm up......love to all......mags

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  • Lovekitties
    Lovekitties Member Posts: 3,364 Member
    #2
    Dear Mags

    When you get back to the big city, you should find all kinds of dairy which have had lactose removed...milk, cheese and ice cream to name a few...and they taste just as good.  I don't have the issue you do, but buy the lactose free milk as it lasts much longer in the fridge.

    We have also had much cooler weather in the east this summer...don't want to complain too loudly though as it has been a nice change from the 90-100 degree usual.

    Hope you have a good vaca all the same.

    Hugs,

    Marie who loves kitties

  • maglets
    maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
    #3
    Lovekitties said:

    Dear Mags

    When you get back to the big city, you should find all kinds of dairy which have had lactose removed...milk, cheese and ice cream to name a few...and they taste just as good.  I don't have the issue you do, but buy the lactose free milk as it lasts much longer in the fridge.

    We have also had much cooler weather in the east this summer...don't want to complain too loudly though as it has been a nice change from the 90-100 degree usual.

    Hope you have a good vaca all the same.

    Hugs,

    Marie who loves kitties

    ah Marie.....you are such a

    ah Marie.....you are such a sweetie....you know I think I posted just to talk about Johnny...really she is on my mind all the time.....Wolfen I hardly breathe without thinking about your girl....so so hard.......thanks Marie....

    hugs to you.....mags

  • thxmiker
    thxmiker Member Posts: 1,278 Member
    #4
    I switched to Goat milk and

    I switched to Goat milk and goat cheese.  Goat's milk has good probiotics and has a nice creamy texture. Oatmeal helped a lot  with the diarrhea also.  It helped slow down my running to the loo. 

     

    Best Always,  mike

     

    PS JBG voice and positive influence will be missed.

  • ron50
    ron50 Member Posts: 1,723 Member
    #5
    G'day Mags

      Go and see your doctor and ask for a script for some questran lite. Start off with a 4gram sachet mixed with fruit juice just before breakfast. I think you may be suffering from what over ten percent of those who lose their gall bladder suffer. It is called bile salt mal-absorbtion. You eat and you get a dump of bilesalts from your liver . It mixes only partially with the food and sends everything down the express schute. Questran lite binds the bile salts and cholesterol and takes them through the system before they over react. I used to go up to fifteen times a day ,with questran ,once or twice. Hugs Ron.

  • Annabelle41415
    Annabelle41415 Member Posts: 6,742 Member
    #6
    Changes

    Just hate all the changes since going through everything and hoping that it does get better.  I'm not a big dairy person, but notice that eating too much cheese can bind me up terribly.  Guess it's just trial and error. One my favorite meals would be pizza with extra cheese.  Now I've just got to restrain to only having half the pizza and not the whole Wink.  Hope you can take something for that so your tummy doesn't do flips on you.  Good to see your smiling face.

    Kim

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