Aspartame and Headaches

[JohnMichael]

Hey guys, do any of you guys suffer from headaches and overall confusion. I have for years. Just recently I was made aware of aspartame and the gazillion side effects one can get. I have for many years drank diet cola with my rye. In any given week I would drink at least 12. Well, I stopped diet cola for about 10 weeks now and I must say, I feel great now. After about the 2nd or 3rd week my headaches and that slow thinking feeling was gone. They put aspartame in anything that is label lite that is supposed to be sweet. Besides diet cola, it can be in gum, puddings and jello's and many many other things. If you have had symtoms like I have had, try a diet with no aspartame for 30 days and see if you feel better.

Sounds like you might have an alergic reaction to aspartame. I do not have headaches from it but oddly it effects my hearing. If I drink diet colas before I listen to my system or another piece of equipment at a dealer the highs sound exagerated and lower ranges are muffled. I have to be careful not to drink any before shopping or judging a change in equipement.

[GMichael]

HMMmmm... Interesting thread. This may seem off topic at first, but hang in there. I will get to the point somewhere down the road.

I quit smoking in 92. In the following 3 months I gained almost 30 pounds. So I switched to diet everything. I didn't have headaches but I could not think straight. I figured that I had some real good smoke that week. But when it ran out and I still had the same problem. I thought there was a new problem with me. I would forget where I was going and drive past my destinations and find myself wondering down the road forgetting why. One morning, I was out of my supply of diet soda & candies. It was pay day & had no cash to buy more yet. Somehow, I felt better. Maybe I was in recovery from whatever it was. Got paid at lunchtime. Went right out to buy more diet crap. By 2 PM I was in never never land again. I started to put 2 & 2 together and got 5. But I stopped with the diet stuff and went back to feeling normal.
To this day, I can immediately tell if something has diet anything in it. As soon as it touches my lips I get a feeling all over as if I'm allergic. I thought it was the artificial sweeteners till now. Thanks for the article Nod.

[PAT.P]

Sounds like you might have an alergic reaction to aspartame. I do not have headaches from it but oddly it effects my hearing. If I drink diet colas before I listen to my system or another piece of equipment at a dealer the highs sound exagerated and lower ranges are muffled. I have to be careful not to drink any before shopping or judging a change in equipement.

Next time try Classic Coke and all blends well .

[cam]

Sounds like you might have an alergic reaction to aspartame. I do not have headaches from it but oddly it effects my hearing. If I drink diet colas before I listen to my system or another piece of equipment at a dealer the highs sound exagerated and lower ranges are muffled. I have to be careful not to drink any before shopping or judging a change in equipement.

Drinking diet colas makes the highs sound exagerated..........just make sure you don't drink any if you have any suspicion that the wife is in a nagging mood.

[wayner86]

but don’t understand how carcinogens act, or cancers develop.

That is an interesting comment. And you say you don't want to argue. Since you seem to know exactly what triggers cancerous DNA mutations, im going to nominate you for the Nobel Prize.

Wayne

The simple fact is if you ingest Aspartame you're ingesting Formaldehyde, which is a known carcinogen (not a class 2B or 2 but a 1).