Stories Index 1 Stories Index 2 Stories Index 3 Stories Index 4 Stories Index 5 Stories Index 6 Stories Index 7 With the stories pouring in every month, we have developed a new Splenda mini-site to add the new stories each month. For all stories submitted after 14 April 2005, please visit the MINI-SITE. site map	On 21 February 2005, we received this note from N.R. of New York concerning their use of sucralose. "I am so glad I found this website.  I feel that I experienced some of the negative side effects caused by Splenda. About two weeks ago, I had some Baskin & Robbins hard candy sweetened with Splenda.  I had about five candies within an hour of going to sleep. At 4 a.m. I woke up with a horrible stomachache.  I thought I was going to have to go to the emergency room, but the pain finally subsided. After about an hour and a half, I feel asleep.  I also experienced a lot of gas and diarrhea. The next day my stomach felt fine, but I was experiencing some slight vision problems. By the second day after ingesting the candies, I was driving to work and had trouble focusing my eyes intermittently. When I got to work, I called the eye doctor and immediately went over. The doctor found nothing wrong with my eyes except that I needed to update my contact lens and eyeglass prescription because I was having trouble reading the eye chart. The doctor gave me a new prescription and sent me on my way.  This seemed weird to me that my prescription could change so suddenly when I was seeing fine the day before. By the fourth day, my eyes started improving. The focusing problem wasn't occuring as often as it was the previous days. That's when I put two-and-two together and it dawned on me that maybe the Splenda had something to do with it. I decided to investigage online and that's when I discovered this site.  Boy, am I glad I did. After reading about the possible side effects and accounts from others who tried Splenda, I feel certain this was the cause of my ailments.  Especially being that after about a week, my eyes have returned to normal.  Needless to say, I threw out the candy and luckily didn't fill the new prescriptions for contacts or glasses." Thank you N.R. for sharing your story with our visitors. powered by FreeFind	Sign up for our periodic newsletter to get the latest tips, tricks, hints, help, recipes, site updates, and much more.
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