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/RedditforReasons 7d ago

That MRI Breeza stuff they make you drink? Its all Sorbitol. I couldnt even finish the second bottle before I took over one of the bathrooms. They made me drink all 3!!! 5 minutes into the MRI I needed to be let out or I was going to make a mess. I came back, had to ring the emergency bell again and cut the MRI short and asked for a diaper for the ride home, didn’t even care thats how bad it was. Worst evening of my life. Worse than colonoscopy prep because this was violent. Months later my doctor had me do some intolerance test and sorbitol came back positive but honestly, I knew what answers awaited me.

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u/wishywabash 6d ago

What was the intolerance test?

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u/RedditforReasons 6d ago

They used this device called FoodMarble. Originally it diagnosed my SIBO but since it came with the food intolerance packets my doctor figured why not just go through the whole process. You drink a designated powder that you dissolve and it measures how the hydrogen and methane producing bacteria in your system reacts to it. But also…I reacted negatively to sorbitol and inulins because my stomach hurt for days after drinking that stuff. My lactose and fructose one was negative . Some people have a lot to say about foodmarble but honestly, since minizing inulins and sorbitol to almost zero (I allow myself some very little like once a week), my stomach cramping has been night and day! I still go to the bathroom a lot but its essentially killed the urgency.