Hamster, when I have dairy I am crippled over in pain for a few days, stuck in th bathroom, and then constipated so I can barely walk., with a lot of abdomninal distention. So while I was cheating, I was also paying for it a lot. And it set in about 20 min after I eat or drink it. That's what I meant by cheating, not that I didnt suffer a lot when I did have it.

After your whole life of having that reaction, you do get a bit used to it, not that it doesn't effect you, just that you learn to suffer through it, it cut it out. When I was a baby my mom said she could find me by following the white trail of spit up, because it's all I did when I was on cow milk. That and cry with gas and upset tummy.