FWIW: have recently discovered, through an affected friend, that intolerance to dairy products comes in two different forms: intolerance to lactose and intolerance to casein. Said friend, who is casein-intolerant, can drink milk until the cows...well, y'know, but cannot eat more than about a tablespoon of cow's-milk cheese without being very very very sorry. You might consider testing for both, on the off-chance that you suffer only from one or the other and therefore could continue to consume at least some dairy products once diagnosed.
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FWIW: have recently discovered, through an affected friend, that intolerance to dairy products comes in two different forms: intolerance to lactose and intolerance to casein. Said friend, who is casein-intolerant, can drink milk until the cows...well, y'know, but cannot eat more than about a tablespoon of cow's-milk cheese without being very very very sorry. You might consider testing for both, on the off-chance that you suffer only from one or the other and therefore could continue to consume at least some dairy products once diagnosed.