Sickly sweet.
So you may not be aware of this, but fake sugar makes me sick.
I'm not sure if it's one specific kind or all of them, but I've been burned before and just avoid the whole shebang now. You know what that means?
It means I don't eat yogurt.
Yeah that's right. Fucking yogurt. Which I used to love. Well, the non-fruit flavors. But no, apparently all the decent flavors are fat free or sugar free or whatever-the-fuck free and as such contain fake sugars. So no more yogurt for Doc. No, instead I have to make due with small packages of lunchmeat or a banana and/or some chips during my breaks at work. Fuck-nuts.
FUCK YOU, YOPLAIT! FUCK YOU TO HELL!
Anyway, usually I don't think of it. Yeah I'll check the ingredients lists on food sometimes if it looks like it might have substituted the sweet, sweet sugar with something stomach-churny, but for the most part it's not that big a deal in my life. There is, admittedly, a shitload of foods with fake sugar in them, but for the most part it's not anything I'm especially interested in.
Well, starting last night I've been feeling kind of really queasy. Like, to the point where I thought I was going to break my several year long streak of not vomiting. (For serious, it's been several years since I puked. I don't even remember the last time I did, but I think it was before college.) I felt better after I got up this morning (afternoon), and was fine through most of lunch/dinner and our viewing of Zombieland with a friend. (Highly recommended, by the way. If you can handle gore, you should see it.)
Nearing the end of the film, though, I started feeling a bit ugh. This got progressively worse on the drive home. So we stopped at a Walgreens in search of Pepto Bismo, which I don't think I've ever taken or even bought before.
...Did you know there's sucralose in Pepto Bismo? Yeah, neither did I until I needed it.
I think I spent about three minutes just sitting in front of the anti-nausea shelf facepalming after checking the ingredients on every fucking thing I could see that looked like it would help with my nausea. Every last one of them. Fake sugar. Holy turd-fucking shit.
We headed over to a CVS hoping they would have another option. It was there that Nick hit on the brilliant idea of, oh duh, Alka-Seltzer. ...*facepalm*
Checked the ingredients, yep, no fake sugar. No sugar period, really.
So I'm home now with some of that in me (seems to be helping at least), wearing the PJs my (future) mother-in-law gave me, sitting up in bed while Nick and our friend watch horror movies in the living room. (I'm not big on horror, my bedroom exile is entirely voluntary.)
I cannot articulate how pissed I suddenly am at the existence of fake sugars. Food is one thing, but goddammit, in medicine? There's something very wrong about that. I understand that there are a lot of people who can't ingest sugar, and I don't begrudge them the sugar-free stuff. But to the exclusion of providing all other forms? You know, I'm not the only one out there whose digestive system gets shredded by that stuff.
I almost want to kick up a fuss about this, but I'm not sure how. Or even if it's worth the effort. *sigh* Honestly, I feel like I'm making a big deal out of a little thing here, but it's really upsetting me.
I'm not sure if it's one specific kind or all of them, but I've been burned before and just avoid the whole shebang now. You know what that means?
It means I don't eat yogurt.
Yeah that's right. Fucking yogurt. Which I used to love. Well, the non-fruit flavors. But no, apparently all the decent flavors are fat free or sugar free or whatever-the-fuck free and as such contain fake sugars. So no more yogurt for Doc. No, instead I have to make due with small packages of lunchmeat or a banana and/or some chips during my breaks at work. Fuck-nuts.
FUCK YOU, YOPLAIT! FUCK YOU TO HELL!
Anyway, usually I don't think of it. Yeah I'll check the ingredients lists on food sometimes if it looks like it might have substituted the sweet, sweet sugar with something stomach-churny, but for the most part it's not that big a deal in my life. There is, admittedly, a shitload of foods with fake sugar in them, but for the most part it's not anything I'm especially interested in.
Well, starting last night I've been feeling kind of really queasy. Like, to the point where I thought I was going to break my several year long streak of not vomiting. (For serious, it's been several years since I puked. I don't even remember the last time I did, but I think it was before college.) I felt better after I got up this morning (afternoon), and was fine through most of lunch/dinner and our viewing of Zombieland with a friend. (Highly recommended, by the way. If you can handle gore, you should see it.)
Nearing the end of the film, though, I started feeling a bit ugh. This got progressively worse on the drive home. So we stopped at a Walgreens in search of Pepto Bismo, which I don't think I've ever taken or even bought before.
...Did you know there's sucralose in Pepto Bismo? Yeah, neither did I until I needed it.
I think I spent about three minutes just sitting in front of the anti-nausea shelf facepalming after checking the ingredients on every fucking thing I could see that looked like it would help with my nausea. Every last one of them. Fake sugar. Holy turd-fucking shit.
We headed over to a CVS hoping they would have another option. It was there that Nick hit on the brilliant idea of, oh duh, Alka-Seltzer. ...*facepalm*
Checked the ingredients, yep, no fake sugar. No sugar period, really.
So I'm home now with some of that in me (seems to be helping at least), wearing the PJs my (future) mother-in-law gave me, sitting up in bed while Nick and our friend watch horror movies in the living room. (I'm not big on horror, my bedroom exile is entirely voluntary.)
I cannot articulate how pissed I suddenly am at the existence of fake sugars. Food is one thing, but goddammit, in medicine? There's something very wrong about that. I understand that there are a lot of people who can't ingest sugar, and I don't begrudge them the sugar-free stuff. But to the exclusion of providing all other forms? You know, I'm not the only one out there whose digestive system gets shredded by that stuff.
I almost want to kick up a fuss about this, but I'm not sure how. Or even if it's worth the effort. *sigh* Honestly, I feel like I'm making a big deal out of a little thing here, but it's really upsetting me.