Diet pop

I quit diet soda 6 months ago because I won't be able to have it after surgery next month.
I used to drink 3-4 cans of diet coke or pepsi a day.
I felt a lot better and got more sleep once I stopped, but that was probably due to the new lack of constant caffeine.
I've had a migraine problem since I was 13, and while I was only having one 1-3 times a month at the time (manageable) they went away entirely when the soda did.
Last month I had maybe half of my boyfriend's diet pepsi in the car because I hadn't though to bring water, and 4 hours later I had a migraine (with an aura). They next day, I had another (ANOTHER aura) that lasted all day. I don't know what it was about the soda (I don't think it's just the caffeine, caffeine is actually supposed to help migraines and I still have coffee) but it made me feel like crap. Bloated and whatnot. Probably since I had dropped my tolerance of it.
But that's very specific to me, and while I was drinking it every day the difference in how I felt was minimal. Now, though, I can probably never go back to it for all the reasons above.

That's my little story >> Sorry it got long.
I like Sobe and Vitamin water so far as flavored drinks go. And crystal light for mixers c:

Caffeine is one of the most common migraine triggers (it makes them go away temporarily, but then causes rebound headaches. Viscous cycle!) but seeing as you drink coffee, it's probably the aspartame (also a common trigger in people with migraines) in diet soda that triggers migraines. I get them, but when I cut out both caffeine and aspartame, I still got them, so I might as well continue on with my Coke Zeros.

Adults with any symptoms which may or may not be due to aspartame do not have PKU.
PKU is a rare genetic disease which must be treated by a very strict diet from infancy onwards - or major intellectual disability occurs.
Adults don't have it unknowingly.

I see so many people struggling to quit drinking soda. I'm thankful I didn't grow up with it. When I was a kid, my mom only gave me soda when I had a stomach bug, so I grew to associate the taste with feeling nauseated. As an adult, the only time I ever drank it was when pregnant (helped with morning sickness) and when hungover. Now that I'm 95% off processed sugar (I think I ate a cookie last week...can't remember), sodas taste way too sweet. I've never gotten used to artificial sweeteners, either. They leave a weird aftertaste that stays with me for hours. So....THANK YOU MOM for not making sodas a routine part of life when I was a kid.

Aspartame = early death.

Aspartame = a dipeptide between amino acids phenylalanine and aspartate. Something that exists in any slab of meat.

Unrelated issue with diet sodas - my dentist says they're much worse on your enamel than regular soda and if I intend to continue drinking them, it's important to use a mouthwash that restores enamel.

Unrelated issue with diet sodas - my dentist says they're much worse on your enamel than regular soda and if I intend to continue drinking them, it's important to use a mouthwash that restores enamel.

Really? They both contain phosphoric/and or citric acid so why would one be worse on teeth than the other. Personally I've never had a problem with my enamel according to all my dental check ups. But I do have very decent oral hygiene (floss daily and brush after every meal).

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If you want to consider getting off the pop as part of your diet here is what I would suggest that I think is a healthy way to approach it.

Make sure you drink 8 cups of water every day. Do NOT count diet pop towards that number.

Unless you make a point to drink that much anyways you might find it hard to drink 8 cups of water a day at which point the idea of drinking even more fluid might turn you off to pop just in and of itself. If you can drink 8 cups of water a day AND have a pop I think that's fine really.