I think this was some serious dumping!

I've just returned from visiting my son in Petawawa, along with his wife, and our granddaughters, Elli who turned 2 when we were there, and our first hugs and kisses for 2-week old Ayla.  After playing at the water park in Pembroke we ventured to a local dairy for ice cream.  While I really, really wanted the burgundy cherry in a waffle cone, I chose the SF maple in a cup.  The cup was pretty big, though, so I vowed to not eat it all.  It was pretty darn good, and lo and behold, I ate the whole thing, but figured the treat would be ok b/c it was SF.  WRONG!

Within 15 minutes I started to feel really unwell and when we got home I thought I might vomit, but didn't.  About 15 minutes after that, so 30-40 minutes after I devoured the ice cream, I started having these serious stomach pains high up just under my sternum.  Along with that, my insides were rolling around like a pot of boiling water.  Soon after, the horrible gas started - I was pretty embarrassed b/c I was polluting the air in the house!  That was followed by many visits to the bathroom - no details here, but it was pretty gross.  All in all, this lasted about 2-3 hours, and continued very mildly for the rest of the evening.

I've never had this kind of a reaction to anything before, so I was really taken by surprise.  I really thought I'd be okay b/c the ice cream was sugar-free, but I never thought about the possible maple syrup in it (don't know if it was for sure), or perhaps sugar alcohols got me?

Long story short - I don't ever want to feel that way again.  My condolences to those of you who are regular dumpers!

On another note, I've been crying for 2 days now - don't know when I'll see my granddaughters again.  Hopefully we'll be able to travel to them over Christmas.  Will have to treasure pictures until we can get there again.  Little tear. . .

 Hi Megan,  happy you got time to spend with your family!  My husband & I are new Grand-parents also and my 6 mth old grand son who lives 8 hours away  So I really feel for you!  Since I'm pre-op I will try to remember to eat 1/2 the bowl!!  
Take care!!

 I've not dumped on anything...yet...but do hear from others that sometimes it can come out of the blue.  Hope you're feeling better.  Congrats on the new granddaughter and sorry you can't be with them more.

Take care,

Andrea. 

 unfortunatley many SF items make up for the lack of taste with uber amounts of fat and/or sodium.  My guess is the SF ice cream might have been higher in fat than the regular.  I read the side of a box in Soberys one day, thinking hey, sugar free should be good.  WRONG!  I don't remember brand but the fat content was huge. (I just checked Chapman's website and their SF has a little over twice the fat content of their regular!)  I have been away from SF stuff unless I can see the nutirent list per serving.  Sorry you had a rough time!  Regards, Ian

Hi Megan

I feel for you....its a terrible feeling...

Sugar free ice creme gets me every time....so finally I figured out that maybe I better avoid it!! lol

Myself - I am better with a very small....1/2 cup scoop of regular ice creme.....but even that amount can kill me

Hi Megan, im almost 2 years out and I too have not really had a true bout of dumping where I have thrown up but I have had the same symptoms as you. I have always been an ice cream freak so now when I have some, if im at home, I use just a little fruit nappe bowl and if we go out then I just get a kiddie cone (they are free at McDs...lol). Its just enough to satisfy my tastbuds and I don't get the dumping like symptoms.

Just a thought....it may not be dumping....it could be a response to the high level of sugar alcohols that are usually in SF ice cream.  

This is often the case with ice cream for MANY.

Often it's the sugar alcohols.  Sometimes the fat.

I remember person after person doing the NSA rolo here and dumping on that. 

I always warn the newbies to be careful with ice cream - it's the one product that does it for many!

Dawn

That's interesting to hear about the ice cream! A couple of weeks ago we took the kids out for a McDonald's cone. I figured the cold ice cream would be soothing, but it didn't sit well with me. Nothing severe, but I felt horrible afterwards and was bringing up foamy mouthfuls of it for a while afterwards. Everything else seems to go down ok but I can only eat very VERY tiny amounts.... Which is great!

The problem with SF is often there is tons of sorbitol to sweeten. My father inlaw can't eat the SF as the sorbitol gives him diarrhea everytime. As well SF is often higher in fat than the regular stuff. I dumped on dairy Queen but can totlerate McD's icecream