Thread: sensitivity to Splenda?

Is it possible to develop a sensitivity to Splenda? I've been eating low carb for 2 1/2 years and have never had a problem with Splenda. Yesterday I made a pecan pie (crust recipe was from atkins site and filling from www.lowcarbluxury.com) I had a very small piece and within an hour I had that carb overload feeling. I literally had to go lay down I felt so bad. I thought I was coming down with something, but about an hour later, I was fine. This morning I had mock danish for breakfast, using Davinci Vanilla sryup for the sweetener. The same thing has happened again. I feel terrible! Arms feel like they weigh a ton. Headache, nauseous...ughh! I hate this feeling, which is why it's been so easy for me to stick with this WOE.

Could it be something other than the splenda? The pie crust had cream cheese, and of course the mock danish was mostly cream cheese. The pie filling had a lot of sugar free syrups in it, but I ate a VERY small piece. None of the ingredients in either recipe has ever caused problems in the past.

Any ideas?

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I have a friend that is sensitive, just like that, to any of the sugar substitutes. He said he feels like the flu is coming on, and alwyas gets a migraine headache.
I do know that you can develop a sensitivity or allergy to something even after using it for several years. That happened to my DH with aspirin. Took aspirin for years, then one day, all of a sudden he broke out in terrible hives all over his body.
I would suggest not having any Splenda for several days, maybe a week, then have it again, and see if it happens again. Then try it with other sugar subs to see if it's all sugar subs or just Splenda.

Teri

This may be completely unrelated to the splenda. They symptoms you describe sound a lot like carbon monoxide poisoning. My friend and her family almost DIED a week ago thinking that they all had the flu. They didn't. They had carbon monoxide poisoning and since it is odorless they had no clue.

In the case of my friend, her children had seemed to be "recovered" from their flu because they were in a new addition in their house that did not have the levels of carbon m. that the rest of the house did.

I just thought I'd throw that in there. Just in case.

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Teri and Michelee, thanks for your replies!

Michelle, it's been in the 70s here in Arkansas this week, so we haven't had the heater on. Plus we've got a carbon monoxide monitor. We had an experience with that years ago when I was pregnant. I thought it was morning sickness, because I would be extremely ill every morning, and then feel fine later on it the day (when it warmed up and the heater wasn't running.) DH would feel a little bad, but he'd get up and leave for work, and get over it quickly. My son's room was on the other end of the house, so he never had any problems. My sister spent the night with us one night and slept on the couch right next to the heater. She woke up really sick. DH started looking and found a problem with the vent on our heater. Scared us to death! Anyway, I don't think that's the problem.

Teri, you're probably right. I need to stay away from the sugar subs for a week or so and see what happens. My DH had the same experience with aspirin, but I hadn't thought of that until I read your post. I'll try that and see what happens. I suppose I could have develped a sensitivity. What a bummer!

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YOu could try switching to Equal or saccharine for a while and see if the same thing happens.

Splenda sounds pretty benign, although we should expect to hear some horror stories accumulate after a while. That always seems to happen with sugar substitutes.

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I've been using Splenda for a while now, and the symptoms you're describing used to happen to me whenever I would use too much of the Davinci SF syrups. I always felt nauseous after them, and occasionally, using the granulated Splenda left me feeling the same way.

I haven't noticed that reaction anymore, but the one thing that your two instances had in common - they were both involving Splenda that had been heated. I wonder if that could be part of the problem. My symptoms used to appear after using the Davinci's in my coffee....

Hmmmm.....

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