Are you drinking organic or off the shelve? OTS is full of antibiotics, pus and other crap. Growing up as a kid we drank milk that was free of that stuff. In the last 10 years I noticed an intolerance to milk. I would cramp up and generally feel bad. I switched to organic (the milk I grew up on) and all symptoms disappeared. I was really sad on the thought of not being able to drink milk and have my nightly bowl of cereal.
I buy organic milk, stir in some Dutch cocoa powder — no sugar, no crud — and take a handful of vitamins with it. A good way to remember to take my pills:)
Happy you can drink milk again.
Logically, since you are aging you probably lost some ability to digest any milk, but with the placebo effect going on, you reassured yourself that organic milk would be OK ... you started drinking more and your system re-adjusted to dairy.
As a dairy farmer it’s irritating to hear people toss around factoids about antibiotics in milk when we jump through so many hoops to be sure everything is OK.
If we would ship “hot” milk to the dairy, guess what. We just bought the whole tanker load. That’s an incentive to take care of everything right.