Feeling bad after diet sodas, aspartame sweetener etc

chrishg

Hi,

I wonder if anyone has had bad experienced with headaches, dizziness etc after consuming aspartame in diet sodas etc? I think I may be suffering so will cut these types if sweetener out and see if it helps. The proper peer reviewed scientific evidence for this link isn't great and the a majority of online material is anecdotal or within alternative/holistic sites.

Anyone else have an experience of this to share/advise?

Thanks

Chris

deladypilot

I have never had a problem with it but your body may be sensative to aspartame. The only way to find out is to try it again and make sure you are somewhere that you can just sit down and not go anywhere.

I think overall they have found that to much aspartame in anyones body is not a good thing but that goes for just about anything else in life as well.

Hopefully someone will come along later that can be of more help

fatjavotte

I have never had this problem. I used to have lots of sweeteners in my diet but stopped during my pregnancies, just in case. It didn't make me feel better or worse.

mazdauk

I found no difference. Try switching to flavoured water - but checking its one without sweetener.

MeeshyBW

Aspartame is a disgusting chemical and should have never been approved for human consumption in my opinion.

You only have to Google to find out how bad it is for you.

My view is if you want a soda that bad, have a full sugar one but again ONLY have soda as a treat, not as a daily beverage.

I cannot stand the taste of fake sugars especially aspartame. I would avoid it at all costs.

BarackMeLikeAHurricane

Try Zevia. It's a diet soda sweetened with stevia instead of aspartame. I'm drinking one right now lol. I get them from whole foods. I'm not totally nutty about avoiding artificial sweeteners but I used to drink a whole 12 pack of diet grape soda a day so I switched to Zevia.