I've been able to keep my numbers down but I was wondering how soon I should expect it to come back in future pregnancies.
Update here: Just 2 weeks have passed and I have felt a drastic change. I have not had to take even 1 anti-anxiety pill since the day after I stopped using Splenda. I have had only the vaguest hint of chest discomfort which appears to be lessening day by day. I figure it will be a few months before my body is completely clear of it. I could not be more pleased that I have found the source of the daily hell I was living for the last 9 months.
I'm looking at that list of symptoms and wondering if there is a symptom that isn't on that list? I ask because if you look at that list, anybody using Splenda can find something wrong with them in it. lol. I'm not saying Splenda doesn't cause problems - I have no idea, but damn!
points to consider 1. The FDA has been wrong before 2. Equal or nutrasweet has recently been doing a splenda smear campaign, since they are now major competitors. A lot of info out there may not be true. 3. Sometimes thinking that your food makes you sick WILL make you sick. 4. We are Rockets fans, it might not just be the splenda.
I get sick just from hearing or reading the word "Splenda". Ugh. Try using "Splenda" and "Rockets lose again" in the same sentence and I'm vomiting. "As I consume my Splenda-laced diet beverage, the Rockets are taking a severe beating from the Mavs for their fifth consecutive loss."
1 - true 2 - interesting 3 - I was ill months before I did the research with no clue as to what was causing it. 4 - also, very true
Yeah, I agree somewhat. Everything out there causes headaches, diarrhea, and stomach pains, etc.. It was the mention of chest pains, heart palpitations, and anxiety attacks that was a common denominator among several sites that stood out to me.
Splenda is still wildly popular, so popular in fact that they are facing a shortage because of increasing demand. Dieters May Face Splenda Shortage Dieters hoping for a slew of new products with the sugar substitute Splenda may be disappointed next year. That's because the maker of sucralose, the key ingredient behind the increasingly ubiquitous no-calorie sweetener, is having trouble keeping up with demand. Tate & Lyle PLC, the world's only manufacturer of sucralose, said interest has so outpaced expectations the company won't take on new U.S. customers until it has doubled production at it's plant in McIntosh, Ala., sometime in early 2006. The company also plans to open a second plant in Singapore, according to a written statement. Buoyed by a surge in anti-sugar diets such as Atkins and South Beach, Splenda has enjoyed sweet success since its introduction in 2000, appearing in everything from soda and ice cream to candy and jams. Splenda, which won fans with its sugar-like sweetness and stability in baking, now dominates the $337 million U.S. retail market for sugar substitutes, beating out aspartame sweetener Equal, made by Chicago-based Merisant Corp. "Sucralose has one of those problems that's both good and bad to have," said John Sicher, editor of Beverage Digest. "The demand is tremendous. The supply is constrained." Splenda is sold to consumers as a table and baking sugar substitute by McNeil Nutritionals LLC, a Pennsylvania-based unit of Johnson & Johnson. Consumer sales won't be affected by the tight supply, a company spokeswoman said. Sales of sucralose to manufacturers as an ingredient for use in other products are handled directly by Tate & Lyle, which is headquartered in London. How many new sucralose-sweetened products will come to market is difficult to tell, says Sicher. It depends largely on how many products already have been developed and how much sucralose companies bought in advance. He says it's too soon to tell how the tight supply might affect existing sucralose-based products at large companies, such as Coca-Cola Co.'s low-calorie "C2" cola, but Tate & Lyle said the Alabama plant will meet the needs of existing customers. A Coke spokeswoman wouldn't comment. Small companies hoping to expand or introduce low-cal products likely will face the most trouble. Atkins Nutritionals helped spur Splenda's surge by endorsing its use in the company's hugely popular low-carb diet. Matthew Wiant, chief marketing officer for Atkins, estimates sucralose is used in as many as 10,000 products. But he doesn't think companies will have a problem switching to other sweeteners if they can't get it. Lyn Nabors of the Calorie Control Council, a nonprofit trade group, said more companies probably will switch to sugar and sweetener blends, which have fewer calories but require less of the substitute. Companies who insist on pure sucralose may have to delay new products, she said. Dan Conner, a co-owner of Conner Bottle Works, a small Newfields, N.H., company that makes old-fashioned glass-bottled sodas, started feeling the Splenda squeeze two months ago. That's when he got a letter from Tate & Lyle telling him he could buy only small amounts of sucralose each month. He said that for many years his company resisted making diet sodas because the available sugar substitutes didn't taste right. But sucralose was different, and this year Conner added two diet sodas. But with supplies tightening, Conner now hopes another company will introduce a sucralose competitor, since the cost of sucralose has jumped significantly. "Maybe we'll get some price wars going to help people like myself," he said. Merisant, which acquired the Equal business from Monsanto Co. in 2000, recently sued McNeil Nutritionals, accusing it of false advertising by claiming Splenda is made from sugar. McNeil Nutritionals claims the lawsuit is without merit, saying sucralose starts as cane sugar.
This is just my take as I have taken meds in the past with ill-effect. Don't trust what the FDA approves. The bottom line with FDA is $$$. The FDA making more money at the expense of health is part of the reason why health care is so expensive. With all these lawsuits surrounding FDA approved meds, it's obvious that if the gov cared for our well being they would look at more natural alternatives to being healthy. And when you hear the FDA talk about Vitamin toxicity, they are full of crap. Those are scare tactics. If they could regulate vitamins and minerals they could really cash in, but it is illegal. I recommend reading books by Linus Pauling and visiting Saul's website. Very informative whether you follow it or not.
Looking at how the FDA cracks down on Stevia-- raiding places that might sell stevia as a sweetener, limiting its importation and refusing to conduct medical trials on it), and destroying book son cooking with stevia, it looks like all the artificial sweetener companies are after stevia. The FDA has no proof that stevia is unsafe. More money is spent making sure stevia isn't in food than is spent investigating its safety. Here is how silly the FDA policy is: the FDA says that stevia is OK as a dietary supplement but is not to be used as a food additive. So they basically say "stevia won't kill you, but we don't want it in food." Not allowing stevia in food prevents it from competing with crap like aspartame and Splenda. Billions of dollars are going into manufacturing sugar replacements and the whole time the ideal replacement may just be this little plant. Anyway, I don't trust any sweetener the FDA has approves until they've been on the market for a number years to no ill effect. They usually start off with sucess as the ideal man-made sugar replacement and then we find out that cause some form of cancer or something onerous like that. And as the FDA whistleblower has shown, the FDA shares a too cozy relationship with some of the very companies it is supposed to regulate.
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Splenda isn't some magic sweet tasting chemical. It's a sugar molecule that has bulky side groups attached to it to prevent the intestines from absorbing it. So you essentially crap out all the splenda you take in. Never really understood the great deal of paranoia when it comes to artificial sweetners. I'm no doctor (yet), but I honestly doubt very seriously that your "anxiety attacks" are caused by an artificial sweetner. I think the added stress and psychological factors you mentioned in your OP are likely to blame. Your perception that it has gotten better since getting off Splenda appears to be nothing more than placebo effect. Minimize stress in your life, exercise, eat a healthy balanced diet, and hope for the best.
