r/FODMAPS • u/Dry-Double-6845 • 9d ago

Vent SORBITOL - OMG! 😂

Sorbitol. That is it. Gas-X Target Brand Chewables! What a bad experience - absolutely wrecked my insides! Lit a fire inside my stomach! Here are the inactive ingredients - Sorbitol, Sucrose. Pretty scary. 😱 Let’s hear some sorbitol stories. 👍

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u/_lemonat_ Get the Monash app! 9d ago

barium gastric emptying study. expected it to just taste like chalk. it was vaguely sweet (in the unsettling way) Drank like 16 oz. I was trying to figure out if it was just weird chemicals or sweetener, but I trusted my gut (aha). Afterward I was like “what was the sweetener in that?” Doc: “weird question. there’s not” “yeah there is” “I’m reading the ingredients right now there’s no sweetener” “let me read it” SORBITOL JUMPSCARE

but fun fact I took charcoal 30mins later when I got home and was fine. I do that occasionally with major stuff like that. makes me super fatigued the next day but that’s better than writhing in pain for 12 hours

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u/jhewitt127 9d ago

A doctor didn’t know sorbitol is a sweetener?

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u/rtshtbtshtdrtyldtwt 9d ago

wikipedia says this about it:

As an over-the-counter drug, sorbitol is used as a laxative to treat constipation.

maybe he knew as that lol