My "Splenda" experiment
#323967 - 02/04/08 01:35 PM
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TATYANA
Reged: 07/22/07
Posts: 370
Loc: Washington, Seattle
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So I read that artificial sweeteners are bad for IBS people but I never noticed it bothering me (If I chew sugar free gum or sugar free candy). So I decided to try Splenda. I used ½ table spoon of splenda, raw in sauce. About an hour later I had horrible attack that lasted more than 3 hours. It was a stabbing pain under my rib cage that made it difficult to breath. I had it before when my IBS just started so I recognized the pain. But I tell you what; I am never trying artificial sweeteners again!
Just thought I'd share….
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IBS-C since 2006. No signs of IBS now, it's been 4 yrs. Only dairy allergy now.
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Sorry you had such a bad experience! I am 99% sure I am fine with aspartame. Splenda, on the other hand, seems to give me some mild cramping that makes me think a D attack is coming on (though it doesn't actually seem to give me D). Like I said, though, it's very mild. But we are all different. 
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IBS-A since age 12, and fructose sensitive; with the exception of my pregnancy, have been following Heather's diet since Nov. 19, 2007.
Taking 12g of Acacia per day. Relatively stable since March 2008!
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I stay away from Splenda, I think it's pure evil  ! I also THINK that aspartame doesn't bother me but who knows?
Thanks for sharing and hope the pain is gone now!
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IBS-C, bloating, cramps
pregnant
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Splenda is probably the worst of all articial sweeteners. It has sorbital which can reek havic on the gut.
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aspartame
#324095 - 02/05/08 06:31 PM
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Jordy
Reged: 08/12/06
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Are you ladies eating foods with this in it? Is it really tolerable for some of us?
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IBS-C with pain and bloat
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Re: aspartame
#324098 - 02/05/08 07:04 PM
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Erilyn
Reged: 11/14/07
Posts: 743
Loc: Beautiful British Columbia, Canada
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I've had several glasses of diet ginger ale (containing aspartame) since I started EFI, and I haven't had any problems. Before I started EFI, I used to drink Diet Coke like it was going out of style. As far as I could tell, I could never associate my problems with the Diet Coke, but since I was drinking it several times a day, every day, it would have been tough to tell anyway!
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IBS-A since age 12, and fructose sensitive; with the exception of my pregnancy, have been following Heather's diet since Nov. 19, 2007.
Taking 12g of Acacia per day. Relatively stable since March 2008!
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I could have written Erilyn's post! I've had a bit of soda with aspartame here and there but that's maybe once every two weeks, often even less. A huge improvement since I used to drink gallons of diet Coke, lol! It was my afternoon pick-me-up (I hated the office coffee) and evening drink and sometimes just during-the-day drink !
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pregnant
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Quote:
I used to drink Diet Coke like it was going out of style. As far as I could tell, I could never associate my problems with the Diet Coke
Just curious, doesn't the carbonation cause you bloat and gas?
Are you stable? It's okay for you to drink diet Coke? Oh, how I miss it!!!
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IBS-C with pain and bloat
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Re: Diet Coke
#324185 - 02/06/08 12:14 PM
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Erilyn
Reged: 11/14/07
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Loc: Beautiful British Columbia, Canada
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No, carbonation has never seemed to give me bloating or gas. About 7 years ago I gave up drinking it for about 6-8 months, just as an experiment to see if it would help with things like bloating, headaches, and some other general issues. It didn't help in the least, so I gladly went back to drinking it!
I am not stable yet. I feel like I'm getting there, but I'm not there yet. I go about 10-14 days doing well and then things go downhill again. These last few mornings I've had some pretty urgent, soft BMs – not liquid, just soft. I could handle that if it wasn't for the urgency! But some things have improved greatly – I haven't been C for probably over 2 weeks now (I'm IBS-A), and I haven't had mucous in my BMs at all since starting the diet. I still get wind but not as bad as I used to when I was eating high-IF cereal for breakfast (such as Raisin Bran and the like). I also take 10 grams of Acacia Fiber per day.
I've had maybe one glass of Diet Coke since starting the diet – it was one afternoon when I just had a terrible headache and needed the shot of caffeine to get rid of it. It seemed to work and didn't cause me any ill effects at all! I've been too afraid to add it back into my diet as a regular staple, though. I'm trying to narrow down all my trigger foods and I don't want anything interfering – LOL.
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Taking 12g of Acacia per day. Relatively stable since March 2008!
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Re: aspartame
#324186 - 02/06/08 12:17 PM
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Erilyn
Reged: 11/14/07
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Quote:
I could have written Erilyn's post! I've had a bit of soda with aspartame here and there but that's maybe once every two weeks, often even less. A huge improvement since I used to drink gallons of diet Coke, lol! It was my afternoon pick-me-up (I hated the office coffee) and evening drink and sometimes just during-the-day drink !
LOL! Between the two of us, my husband and I used to go through about 6 two-liter bottles of Diet Coke a week! 
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Taking 12g of Acacia per day. Relatively stable since March 2008!
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