Anyone else get nightmares from sweetners?

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That probably makes me sound sooo nuts!

I worked out when I tried splenda, that I got very very bad nightmares the night after having it, so now never touch the stuff.

Yesterday I was given low fat sugar stuff (sugar with sweetner mixed in or something), and I had the worst nightmares I've had in ages last night.

It wasn't that I went to bed thinking "Damn I'll have nightmares now" - I'd forgotten about it til I woke up all shakey and sweaty this morning

Is it just me that reacts like that? It only seems to be the ones that say that they are made from real sugar. The ones that don't say anything so I'm assuming they are made of words I can't pronounce are fine.

Aspartame is banned by the US Airforce for exactly this reason.

Ok, done some research - Canderel uses aspartame, and I am fine with that, Splenda uses sucralose, and I get nightmares.

The sugar yesterday was tate & lyle low fat - they also make splenda, so would assume that the sweetner in it is sucralose.

Soooo... I'm assuming that it is sucralose that doesn't like me?

Interesting- ds1 goes loopy on sweetners- it's always helpful to hear from an adult how it afects them- thanks

At least you know what to avoid.

Its like being in a study group here! I come on with a question, someone replies with something else, and it sets me on the right track to research for answers!!!

And you are not nuts.

Lol - I think you'd find quite a few people would disagree with you there

Sweetners are the work of the Devil, I'm tellin' ya. Avoid like the plague.

I've had asthma attacks from aspartame - horrible stuff.

Sweetners always cause an IBS attack for me

Yup. Another vote for the Aspartame is evil lobby.

I saw a homeopath for a while about a condition something akin to IBS. The very first thing she told me was to make sure I never have anything with Aspartame in. She said it's a nerve poison (but admitedly I never checked any other source to see if that's true).

I should add, I did as I was told & the IBS symptoms went and have never come back.

Asparteme is banned in our house. My DH maintains that when he did his psychology degree he was shown a report stating that it gave rats brain cancer. Also I'm convinced that artificial sweetners are addictive, when I gave up sweetner it was worse than giving up fags. Migranes, sweats, shakes the works.

I searched if sucralose causes weird dreams just to see if I wasn't alone and here it is! Every single time I drink one of those water enhancers I have wacky dreams. I'm also curious to know if its the blue dye contributing to that.