This past week, I have had bad headaches, bloating, gas, severe hot flashes, and breaking out in cold sweats. I also have been a bit depressed and had no idea why.

I started eating sugarfree candies about a week ago here and there to help with hunger until the next meal. Well, today at work, I got bored and decided to eat about 12 pieces of the Baskin Robbins Chocolate Mint sugarfree candies. I got extremeley nauseated and light headed. I kept having hot flashes and cold sweats so bad that I almost made a trip to the emergency room. I thought I was either on the verge of a heart attack or a stroke and didn't know which.

Well, by evening, I began to swell up HUGE with the worst case of bloating I have ever had. I couldn't even bend over to put shoes on. Eventually, I couldn't even walk it hurt so bad. Well, that is when I started thinking maybe I might be allergic to something, so I went through the things I ate that day and realized the only thing that could have caused this was the candy.

Looking back on the last week and realizing I was havingt the same problems in lesser form, I knew it had to be the artificial sweeteners in them. I looked up the product and realized they contain sucralose. So, I did some research on sucralose and Splenda and came across this website. Now I KNOW that it was the Splenda in the candies that caused my problems.

I have thrown out the rest of the candies and am now trying to get the bloating down and get my stomach to settle down. Hopefully, by bedtime, I will be able to move comfortably and won't feel quite as sick! Artificial sweeteners are poison!"

Thank you B. for sharing your story with our visitors.

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