Could pasteurized milk have made me sick?

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Hi all,

Its me again.

I've been doing a lot of reading re: real milk and I think something

finally clicked.

10 years ago between my little brother and I, we went through 1-2

gallons of milk daily. My mother never believed the dozens of experts

who told her she should be buying skim - so we always got " full fat "

milk (if you can even call it that).

My milk consumption dropped off just after my salt overload: starting

around the same time as I started my menstrual issues. Could the

exposure to the homone laden pasteurized milk have caused my hormone

problems in the first place?

I get a very annoying post nasal drip which accompanies my hormone

imbalance. I can tell when my system isn't happy between the post

nasal drip and the hot flashes at night. Recently I have been

drinking more hormone laden pasteurized milk and sure enough, both

symptoms have been worse - peaking with my peak consumption of

standard grade A milk. I feel almost stupid to ask at this point: is

this related?

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When I visited family in Africa, I had raw milk from cows my

grandmother raised. It was soo good, and it reminded me a lot of my

grass fed milk from home. I had been sick when I arrived - I had a

bout of what appeared to be gastric enteritis (or a recurrance of the

same bout I was trying to kick for a few months). On the car ride to

the farm, my grandmother bought some antibiotics and began to make me

take them. I was too weak to protest, I threw most of them up and I

was appalled later when they had appeared to work for what I thought

was viral!

This was 3 years ago and I just realized that when we got to the farm

I started drinking raw milk for the first time in my life. We had a

few glasses when we got there, grandma had extra milk brought to the

house just for us and we had a few more glasses before bed. I woke up

and was completely cured of the gastric enteritis. I have never had

another bout.

It really sucks that I live in a state where raw milk sale is illegal.

I may have to make a trip to PA soon. Does anyone in NJ know of some

kind of milk co-op where someone drives out to PA with a pool of money

and comes back with a lot of milk to divvy up? I would hate to have

to drive out there weekly.

Thanks!

Lana M. Gibbons