It is true I am lactose intolerant, so I have stomach issues if I drink cows milk.
However I did not have any issues with my lungs after I had consumed it until a few years back. I already had poor sleeping habits, since I was young. It got increasingly worse during and after the military. However a few years back, I was lucky to get a couple hours of sleep a night, instead of my usual five or six. I would constantly be on the verge of falling asleep, like right at that sweet spot of awake and sleep, when you KNOW you are about to pass out in sleep bliss.
And right when I was about to hit that stride, I would wake up snorting. I had no idea why. I had assumed due to allergies perhaps or cigarette smoke from neighbors or perhaps something more personal like my heart actually stopping in the middle of the night or stress from work. I simply had no idea and I stubbornly wont go to a doctor. I was also afraid perhaps I was just waking from snoring instead. But I have been told I have snored before and that usually means you are actually sleeping, just other people can not sleep because of your snoring. ^^! But as I said I was never allowed to sleep, I was just on the verge of doing so. It happened so often I was aware of just when I was about to go into a deep sleep and then prevented from doing so... over and over again... night after night. I am not going to lie, there were times I felt like bawling and tearing my pillow apart and ripping my hair out, it was just so frustrating and tiring, night after night after night...
The weird thing is, I would breath normally while awake, standing, sitting or even laying down. Only when I was about to fall asleep would it happen and like clock work. Even forcing myself to lay in different positions and sides, did nothing to ease my torment. Then I saw this video and decided to stop drinking cows milk and eating dairy and I have been able to sleep better. I still do not get enough of it and I still wake repeatedly through out the night, but I am at least sleeping. If and when I do eat some kind of dairy, I try for it to be in the morning or early afternoon, so by the time I do try and sleep at night, I do not have any reactions, minus what comes with having an intolerance to it...
This video is not too long. Probably quicker to watch, than read all that I wrote. ^^!
The saddest part is, a fellow co-worker has a child that is on a breathing machine and has diagnosed sleep apnea. She has to be on a breathing machine every night. Either the co-worker pays for some of it or maybe none of it due to her daughter is still a child. But I offered her to watch the video, even urged her too, but she refuses. She says the doctor keeps telling them to drink even more milk, but she is not getting any better. Sure the machine helps her sleep, but it is not making her better. And I can not say if she stopped drinking milk that it would actually help, but it is worth a try in my opinion. But she simply refuses. Makes me sad...
