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On 23 June 2004, we received this note from A. of Atlanta, GA, concerning their use of sucralose.
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"I ran across your website while researching Sucralose on the Web. Here's my "Splenda story" if you wish to post it for others.
I've been dieting all this year, and have cut out all sucrose (table sugar) and artificial sweetners. The diet I'm following is called the Lifestyle Diet. This diet basically provides you 3 modest well balanced meals each day by simply limiting the number of helpings and controlling the size of the helping. I've lost 16# so far this year, feel great, and have experienced no unpleasant effects from the diet.
Anyway, back in the spring, I would sometimes drop by a local Cracker Barrel restaraunt on the way home from work. As you know, Cracker Barrel is a 'country cookin' type place. I would order a dinner meal with 2 or 3 cornbread muffins. And then I would ask the waitress for the 'sugar free syrup'. ( Cracker Barrel uses these little bottles of sugar free maple-flavor syrup which contain Splenda.) Sometimes I got just one little bottle, but sometimes I asked for two. Then I would pour most if not all that Splenda-sweetened syrup on the fresh hot cornbread muffins, and enjoy the meal. I hadnt yet heard about the health problems related to Splenda, nor had I done any research on it. I guess I just believed the marketing slogan you find on the box (of Splenda). Other than the Splenda, it was an ordinary "country food" type meal, which I'm well acclimated to, being born and raised in the South.
Anyway, several times after eating a meal like this, I experienced "midnight nausea". I would be wakened out of sleep by sensations of a nauseated stomach, intense enough that for a while I thought I would have to go throw up. The feeling was just like you feel when you've just come down with an unexpected flu bug or stomach virus, or eaten some bad food. It was only by laying on my back, very still, for quite a long time, that the nausea finally ebbed away, and I was able to drift back to sleep. This happened more than once, and always on the same night that I had eaten the Cracker Barrel muffins with the Splenda-sweetened syrup. At the time, I thought maybe it was because I had eaten too late in the evening, or that the muffins were too rich, but yesterday I read other people's testimonials about sucralose causing food-poisoning type symptoms, so I now believe the nausea was caused by the syrup, which had been poured on the muffins. This is significant as I am in good health and rarely experience nausea.
I now plan to avoid *any* products containing sucralose from now on.
Feel free to post this if you think it will help warn others."
Thank you A. for sharing your story with our visitors.
On 23 June 2004, we received an update from A.:
"Wanted to pass along an "update" to the message sent yesterday regarding midnight nausea.
Last night, after leaving work, I stopped off at the same Cracker Barrel for a late dinner. I got the usual country-style dinner ( a meat, a vegie, a fruit, a little butter, and 2 cornbread muffins). For beverage, I chose large ice-water with fresh lemon slices. But this time, I abstained from any artifical sweetners, including their sugar-free maple syrup that uses Splenda as the sweetner. I enjoyed the meal, then went home and went to bed. I slept pretty soundly, and experienced absolutely no nausea or stomach upset of any kind.
This simple test leads me to believe more firmly that it really was the sucralose in their syrup that caused the previous bouts of midnight nausea. Those Cracker Barrel syrups are actually pretty small doses... what is really happening to people who are using large amounts of Splenda-laden syrup ??
Thank you again for posting the real experiences of real people."
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