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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GraceK" data-source="post: 315422" data-attributes="member: 47233">I've never ever bothered with artificial sweeteners before because I had a bad reaction to one many years ago.  But since diagnosis I tried a few 'diabetic sweets' and had an almost instant reaction and the galloping trots which lasted all day.  I don't want to be explicit but this was not like your average bout of food induced diaorrhea, it was more severe and it happened just minutes after eating the sweets so I knew what caused it.I've bought Tesco's diet Ginger Beer before and had no problem with that, so yesterday I bought Sainsbury's diet Ginger Beer and had exactly the same reaction - galloping trots.The Tesco one has sucralose in it and the sweets and the Sainsbury's soda has SORBITOL in it.Having had this experience it brought back memories as to why I've always avoided artificial sweeteners in the past - I had the same reaction to a piece of chewing gum I ate about 30 years ago!!!Does anyone else have these kind of severe reactions to artificial sweeteners and if so, can you name them?  I'd like to know whether Sorbitol is a regular culprit and if there are any sweeteners that don't seem to cause problems.I'm worn out now, got a hospital appointment at 9am tomorrow but if I'm still galloping there's no way I'll get there.   :think:</blockquote>

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