Lately when I eat peanut butter (reduced fat) my heart starts racing like I ran a marathon and I feel out of breath and like I'm suffocating. Sometimes when I eat too much of it I get diarrhea. Is this dumping syndrome or am I allergic to it? Never had problems with peanut butter before surgery. This just started happening. When it first happened I thought it was a panic attack but then it kept on happening after the peanut butter intake.

Anyone have any problems with peanut butter? What is this that's happening?

What is the sugar content?  Some peanut butter companies add a boat load of sugar.  It sounds like dumping to me. 

I would say it is dumping.

Most brands of peanut butter are high fat AND high sugar. Sugar causes dumping in me (I can eat all the fat I want though).  Check your label. If there is corn syrup, cane juice/syrup, beet juice/syrup, sugar, or sugar-those all sugars.

Crazy Richards has a peanut butter that is just peanuts, oil and salt. That is what I eat. It is nt reduced fat though.

Better yet, get a vitamix blender (prepare for sticker shock) and make your own almond, peanut, sesame, sunflower and cashew butters.

You can save a good percent (I think it is somewhere between 5-20%) when ordering telling them (Vitamix) you read and heard about them from victoria boutenko's book "Green smoothie revolution"  We dont eat smoothies but Vitamix doesnt need to know that! 

I second the Vitamix blender suggestion.  Yes, they are expensive, but totally worth it.  I make my own nut butters in mine because the commercially available ones have so much sugar in them.  Plus, they just taste better.  I also love the hot soup feature, and the self-cleaning setting.  One of my best purchases ever.

I'm not a doctor. But if it were me, I'd stop eating peanut butter.

I was thinking the same thing!

It sounds like dumping. Reduced fat peanut butter has more sugar added to make it taste better. I can use small measured amounts of regular peanut butter but can not use the reduced fat versions without dumping.

You can get powdered peanut butter (chocolate pb too) called PB3. Order online or get it at Target. Tons less fat and no sugar; just add water to the consistency you like. Or add it to a protein drink. It's pretty good 😃

I agree.  PB2 is pretty great. I have only mixed it in my protein shakes so far though.

try using full fat peanut butter. It may have less sugar than the reduced fat. When manufacturers take out some of the fat they. Have to replace it with something,and sugar is really cheap.

if you still dump,and it is dumping,not an allergic reaction,the you are only going to be able to eat peanut butter that is more natural,like plain ground peanuts and salt. You may not even like it without all the sugar.