Dairy = Drugs?

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I'm addicted to dairy, and there's a good reason: it makes me high. No, seriously. They have an opiate effect on me. I have mood swings, I get hyper, and my pupils dilate. I cannot drink liquid milk for this reason, nor can I do cheese puffs. In fact, the effects of my most recent cheese puff binge nearly got me arrested. Does anyone else get high from dairy?

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There was this movie called Alien Nation in where we had aliens living amongst us. they got drunk on sour milk and the ocean water was like acid to them. If they went swimming in the ocean, They would melt like the wicked witch of the west.

Is it possible you have a dairy allergy and this is how it's manifesting, dulling how your brain is working?

You've already recognized the negative side of what can happen when you aren't careful. Maybe you should avoid dairy from now on?

I'd talk to a doctor, maybe an allergist, if I were you.

Agreed, talk to your doctor. My ex was latose intolerant or so he thought but the lactose pills never worked for him and he had an extreme reaction to dairy. He would get deliriously happy sometimes from eating it but then he would pass out from exhaustion and sleep for a really really long time -for a day and a half once. He never went to a doctor about it but just avoided dairy completely. I think he most likely had an allergy. Allergies can be very dangerous and even if you avoid dairy it's good to know whether or not you have a severe allergy and what you can do about it if you accidentally ingest a milk product some day.

Yes, I get high from milk. Isn't that why people drink it, though?

It can have a sedative effect on me but I admit it does make my mood cycles worse. I don't know if it makes me more hyper but I do go from a depressive mood to a hyper mood within a days or few days.
I don't usually have much dairy besides a bit of milk in my tea and a few squares of chocolate a day.

I've already been tested for all kinds of allergies, and I have no food allergies whatsoever. Mom thinks it's casein, though. No one tests for that, so I just limit it. I don't eliminate it completely, but if I start to have mood issues or digestive issues, then I sober up for a while.

Yes...I trip so hard off of milk

Ok to be honest I can't say I have any idea what you're talking about, sounds like quite a strange effect from dairy. Spicy stuff on the other hand...well I read an article about a study that implies when you eat salsa for instance with spicy peppers the brain perceives the 'spicy' sensation as real pain so it releases opiate like chemicals to cure the 'pain' from the burning sensation of spicy food.

So in a sense you can get high from spicy peppers.....but I have never heard of anything like that with dairy.

Also with opiates your pupils would get smaller not dilate to a larger size...

When I was a baby my mom have to get soymilk because I wouldn't drink regular milk and when I was in my toddler years my nanny had to put Hawaiian punch in my milk and mix it just so that I would drink milk in this day I still don't like milk.

Chocolate is known to be mildly psychoactive drug.

But Ive never heard of milk being that.

Maybe its a combination of what Sweetleaf and Sethno said. That you're mildly allergic to lactose and your body is generating opiates in response to the "injury" you body thinks you're inflicting on it.

Milk is the ultimate "comfort food" for many for strickly psychological reasons having to do with the fact that we all consume it as infants. But Ive never heard of anyone getting high off of cheetos before.

Maybe you should see a doctor.

And then check into the Betty Ford Center! Just kidding.

All doctors do is roll their eyes at me and Mom when we mention it to them. They don't believe a word we're saying. And once again, I did see an allergist for other issues, and he tested me for all kinds of allergies including dairy, and I have absolutely no food allergies. And they don't test for lactose intolerance at this place, I don't think.

I've tried Lactaid and other products to help with lactose intolerance years ago, and they didn't help at all. Mom and I still think it's the protein known as casein.

Is it a nice feeling? Because I wouldn't want to get rid of it if it could help me relax after a bad day.

No, it's not a nice feeling. It makes me happy and depressed back and forth in small amounts, but then I start craving it like crazy, and the more I have, the moodier I get, and then I get unpredictable, and risk being arrested. Amazingly, I haven't been arrested, but I've come close. I recommend not trying it, unless you want to be treated like someone who's about to commit a murder.

I don't know about the last part, telling other people not to drink milk, because not everyone is affected by it the way you say you are.

As for YOU...

Umm...

Don't use it any more?

If you believe that's what is causing you to behave badly, then DON'T DO DAIRY!

See if that makes these weird behavours go away. If it does, then you've hit on it and you can just keep away from it for good.

Many foods have addictive effects. Fatty foods stimulate chemical releases that bring pleasure.

That's why it's called "comfort foods."

I guess what I said came out wrong, sorry about that. Blondeness... Whether you try dairy is up to you, I'm just sharing my experiences. I'm sorry that came out wrong. But yes, bad things can happen on dairy.

I did go without dairy for a long time, TWICE. I did fine without it (although the second time I got majorly depressed). But I can do some dairy once in a while without a problem, but not day after day. I already know this. The reason I nearly got arrested was because I was bingeing on cheese puffs every day for over a week, often times more than one serving, and often times with other dairy, too. I was getting mega-high. I don't get high off the occasional pizza slice at the mall, especially if I haven't done a lot of dairy that week.

I don't want to eliminate it from my diet completely, as I am able to tolerate SMALL amounts. Like I said, the occasional slice of pizza from Sbarro won't make me go ape s***. Neither will the occasional dinner of macaroni and cheese (which I don't even like, oddly enough), nor the occasional ice cream cone, or Subway BMT sub with provolone and accompanying snack size bag of Doritos. Hell, I can even do the occasional Cheetos, IF I'M CAREFUL.

Mom also cuts the amount of dairy in foods by using dairy substitutes like CoffeeMate, coconut milk, almond milk, and other things.

The key for me is MODERATION, not elimination.