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Costco Members: 180-Count Kirkland Fast Acting Dairy Digestive Lactase Caplets

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Costco has for its Members: 180-Count Kirkland Signature Fast Acting Lactase Dairy Digestive Supplement Caplets on sale for $12.99. Shipping is free.

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Costco has for its Members: 180-Count Kirkland Signature Fast Acting Lactase Dairy Digestive Supplement Caplets on sale for $12.99. Shipping is free.

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  • If you don't have a Costco Warehouse Membership, you can sign-up here

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The effect of lactase pills is very short-lived, which is why you have to take it again if you are still consuming dairy 20-30 minutes after your first dose. It's not powerful enough to alter your body's digestive system. It is far more likely that you experienced symptoms to be much worse because you took a prolonged break from it. You took a break from coping with symptoms, so it became harder for you to cope. That combined with the fact that our body's ability to produce lactase progressively diminishes over time can lead to the kind of experience you had. Lactase supplements are not to be blamed here. At the end of the day, it's a losing battle for all of us. Might as well just use the pills and enjoy life.

Pro Tip: You can save money by dropping 2 of these pills into a regular half gallon milk to create lactose-free milk, which is $2-3 cheaper than buying it. You just need to give it a few days for the enzyme to do the work.
These are great pills at an excellent price -- very slick for people who deal with lactose intolerance. My husband swears by them. Even the regular Costco price is great, compared to name-brand equivalents like Lactaid.

Lactose Intolerance often gets worse over time gradually and naturally. It also tends to show up in most Americans/Western European adults sometime between your late teens and early 30s and tends to be very subtle at first (e.g. feeling slightly uncomfortable after having dairy products). If your body can no longer produce the lactase enzyme that breaks down dairy, there's nothing you can do to "restart" that, so it's pretty doubtful that taking these regularly would make lactose intolerance any "worse" than how it would naturally progress.... Regardless, these pills (which are simply lactase in pill form) are a really mild and inexpensive way for lots of people to enjoy dairy products, and this is an excellent price for them.
I discovered these pills 12 years ago at Costco and they seemed like a game-changer for my slight lactose intolerance. Suddenly, I could enjoy dairy products again without worry. It felt liberating, and I started taking a pill or two before eating anything I thought might contain dairy - sometimes 5 or 6 times a day.

But over time, I became heavily dependent on them. What I didn't realize was that this reliance was actually worsening my lactose intolerance. Now, even the smallest trace of dairy makes me sick, and I've lost all my natural tolerance.

I'm sharing this as a cautionary tale: if you decide to use lactase pills, please do so sparingly. Continue to build and maintain your body's natural tolerance, or you might find yourself feeling worse in the long run. Remember, everyone's experience is different, and this is just mine.

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another amazon alternative is this one i used to get but it used to be under $30 for 360

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BRQP9YR/

they kinda all look like they are made by the same manufacturer
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Cheaper than generic at Sam's club, and free shipping
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I discovered these pills 12 years ago at Costco and they seemed like a game-changer for my slight lactose intolerance. Suddenly, I could enjoy dairy products again without worry. It felt liberating, and I started taking a pill or two before eating anything I thought might contain dairy - sometimes 5 or 6 times a day.

But over time, I became heavily dependent on them. What I didn't realize was that this reliance was actually worsening my lactose intolerance. Now, even the smallest trace of dairy makes me sick, and I've lost all my natural tolerance.

I'm sharing this as a cautionary tale: if you decide to use lactase pills, please do so sparingly. Continue to build and maintain your body's natural tolerance, or you might find yourself feeling worse in the long run. Remember, everyone's experience is different, and this is just mine.
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I live off of these! THANK YOU OP!
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is it cheaper in-warehouse?
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Quote from majorpersonality :
I discovered these pills 12 years ago at Costco and they seemed like a game-changer for my slight lactose intolerance. Suddenly, I could enjoy dairy products again without worry. It felt liberating, and I started taking a pill or two before eating anything I thought might contain dairy - sometimes 5 or 6 times a day.

But over time, I became heavily dependent on them. What I didn't realize was that this reliance was actually worsening my lactose intolerance. Now, even the smallest trace of dairy makes me sick, and I've lost all my natural tolerance.

I'm sharing this as a cautionary tale: if you decide to use lactase pills, please do so sparingly. Continue to build and maintain your body's natural tolerance, or you might find yourself feeling worse in the long run. Remember, everyone's experience is different, and this is just mine.
This is exactly what happened to me. I usually would just avoid dairy when I could and/or planned my day around it but I had a 12 day trip planned with friends and did not want dairy to get in the way of enjoying it with them.

One other "lactard" friend and I ripped through them over those 2 weeks and I let her keep what was left. After I got home, I found that my intolerance had somehow gotten drastically worse. Small amounts of smoked cheese that I could somewhat tolerate before became no laughing matter.
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Quote from majorpersonality :
I discovered these pills 12 years ago at Costco and they seemed like a game-changer for my slight lactose intolerance. Suddenly, I could enjoy dairy products again without worry. It felt liberating, and I started taking a pill or two before eating anything I thought might contain dairy - sometimes 5 or 6 times a day.

But over time, I became heavily dependent on them. What I didn't realize was that this reliance was actually worsening my lactose intolerance. Now, even the smallest trace of dairy makes me sick, and I've lost all my natural tolerance.

I'm sharing this as a cautionary tale: if you decide to use lactase pills, please do so sparingly. Continue to build and maintain your body's natural tolerance, or you might find yourself feeling worse in the long run. Remember, everyone's experience is different, and this is just mine.
These are great pills at an excellent price -- very slick for people who deal with lactose intolerance. My husband swears by them. Even the regular Costco price is great, compared to name-brand equivalents like Lactaid.

Lactose Intolerance often gets worse over time gradually and naturally. It also tends to show up in most Americans/Western European adults sometime between your late teens and early 30s and tends to be very subtle at first (e.g. feeling slightly uncomfortable after having dairy products). If your body can no longer produce the lactase enzyme that breaks down dairy, there's nothing you can do to "restart" that, so it's pretty doubtful that taking these regularly would make lactose intolerance any "worse" than how it would naturally progress.... Regardless, these pills (which are simply lactase in pill form) are a really mild and inexpensive way for lots of people to enjoy dairy products, and this is an excellent price for them.
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Perfect timing, just ran out. thanks
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Quote from majorpersonality :
I discovered these pills 12 years ago at Costco and they seemed like a game-changer for my slight lactose intolerance. Suddenly, I could enjoy dairy products again without worry. It felt liberating, and I started taking a pill or two before eating anything I thought might contain dairy - sometimes 5 or 6 times a day.

But over time, I became heavily dependent on them. What I didn't realize was that this reliance was actually worsening my lactose intolerance. Now, even the smallest trace of dairy makes me sick, and I've lost all my natural tolerance.

I'm sharing this as a cautionary tale: if you decide to use lactase pills, please do so sparingly. Continue to build and maintain your body's natural tolerance, or you might find yourself feeling worse in the long run. Remember, everyone's experience is different, and this is just mine.
It could also be your condition worsened with time. My mom took lactate pills 35 or so years ago and it was a blessing As she aged, she needed them more and had to be more selective. It was never discussed that the pills eventually had a worsening effect. It was just thought that her condition was worsening.
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Sorry. Replied to a wrong person lol
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Quote from majorpersonality :
I discovered these pills 12 years ago at Costco and they seemed like a game-changer for my slight lactose intolerance. Suddenly, I could enjoy dairy products again without worry. It felt liberating, and I started taking a pill or two before eating anything I thought might contain dairy - sometimes 5 or 6 times a day.

But over time, I became heavily dependent on them. What I didn't realize was that this reliance was actually worsening my lactose intolerance. Now, even the smallest trace of dairy makes me sick, and I've lost all my natural tolerance.

I'm sharing this as a cautionary tale: if you decide to use lactase pills, please do so sparingly. Continue to build and maintain your body's natural tolerance, or you might find yourself feeling worse in the long run. Remember, everyone's experience is different, and this is just mine.
The effect of lactase pills is very short-lived, which is why you have to take it again if you are still consuming dairy 20-30 minutes after your first dose. It's not powerful enough to alter your body's digestive system. It is far more likely that you experienced symptoms to be much worse because you took a prolonged break from it. You took a break from coping with symptoms, so it became harder for you to cope. That combined with the fact that our body's ability to produce lactase progressively diminishes over time can lead to the kind of experience you had. Lactase supplements are not to be blamed here. At the end of the day, it's a losing battle for all of us. Might as well just use the pills and enjoy life.

Pro Tip: You can save money by dropping 2 of these pills into a regular half gallon milk to create lactose-free milk, which is $2-3 cheaper than buying it. You just need to give it a few days for the enzyme to do the work.
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Bought a pack in the warehouse on Wednesday for $15.99, good deal.
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Quote from majorpersonality :
I discovered these pills 12 years ago at Costco and they seemed like a game-changer for my slight lactose intolerance. Suddenly, I could enjoy dairy products again without worry. It felt liberating, and I started taking a pill or two before eating anything I thought might contain dairy - sometimes 5 or 6 times a day.

But over time, I became heavily dependent on them. What I didn't realize was that this reliance was actually worsening my lactose intolerance. Now, even the smallest trace of dairy makes me sick, and I've lost all my natural tolerance.

I'm sharing this as a cautionary tale: if you decide to use lactase pills, please do so sparingly. Continue to build and maintain your body's natural tolerance, or you might find yourself feeling worse in the long run. Remember, everyone's experience is different, and this is just mine.
That's not how lactose intolerance works. The genes shut down because primates didn't use to drink cow milk in adulthood. Blame (epi)genetics, not the pills.
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How fast acting can these be? Are the chewables better?

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Quote from ImagineNoReligion :
That's not how lactose intolerance works. The genes shut down because primates didn't use to drink cow milk in adulthood. Blame (epi)genetics, not the pills.
That's not quite accurate either. First, genes do not "shut down." That's not how genes work. Our body slowly loses its ability to produce lactase because our genes pre-programmed it to do so, not because any genes are "shutting down." Also, it has more to do with our ancestors' dietary practices than primates. The practice of dairy consumption has long existed and widely practiced in the Western world, such as Europe. This led to their adaptation to keep producing lactase over many generations. Dairy consumption was not a common practice in many cultures, and people from such cultures/regions stop producing lactase because there was less adaptive need to do so. That's why East Asians are known to have more lactose intolerance than others. Dairy products such as milk, cheese, butter, etc. weren't traditionally made/consumed in East Asia until Western influence/trades changed things.

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