Aspartame Issue

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Are there any Aspies out there that are allergic to Aspartame (junk they put in Diet Soda)?

I was able to drink diet soda until late 2009 and after that if I had anything with aspartame in it my heart would start racing and I would almost black out, unless I laid flat on the ground with the lights off.

I am wondering if anyone else has something similar?

it gives me a headache. artificial sweeteners make me sick.

I get really hyper if I have diet sodas. A person in my add support group told me that there had been a study showing that people with asperger or add may react strongly to aspartame. I used to drink loads of that stuff, now I'm trying to cut down

I suffer from a severe headache and nausea if I ingest anything containing aspartame. Usually I can taste it almost immediately though, so it rarely gets this far anymore.

I drank pepsi max in the hundreds of gallons since it came out, regularly 6-8 24oz bottles a day. It messed with my heart a great deal, causing it to palipate and cause massive pain due to it speeding up so much all the time. I stopped using anything wth aspartame about 4 months ago, and at first I got pretty sick, huge headaches, body pain, back pains, my mind was always clouded, and everything just seemed sh***y for the next week or two. After those first few weeks, I started coming back to normal, but any time aspartame is in my system now, I can feel the chemical working, it's pretty odd. I wouldn't use the stuff, it's horrible.

I have a massive sensitivity to Aspartame and other artificial sweeteners. When I have it, I get nausea, upset stomach (even in low amounts) and my behaviour becomes uncontrollable. My moods swing rapidly from being REALLY happy to wanting to die. My tics get much more noticeable and I cannot concentrate.

My brother who has ADHD also has the same problem. As a kid he was really hyperactive. My Mum read about ADHD and sensitivity to Aspartame and other artificial additives (sunset yellow is the worst!). She took all of the stuff out of his and my diet and my brother's behaviour improved a lot. Although he still had all the symptoms of ADHD, they weren't as extreme. I don't remember the effect it had on me, but I didn't really like sweeteners anyway so I wasn't too bothered when Mum banned them!

I live in a care home now and the other resident (who also has AS) has the same symptoms as me when she drinks diet Coke or anything else with the dreaded aspartame in. One time we both had a bright red fizzy drink and we were both crying and getting angry by the end of the day! That's when one of our carers made the link between Aspartame and our moods rapidly declining! I never have any artificial colours, flavours or sweeteners anymore becuase it makes me feel SO ILL!! !

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Unless you're diabetic, I'd just drink regular soda, occasionally, like when you go out. Don't buy it for your house or you'll just drink it all the time.

I used to think that it would be hard to let soda go, especially while eating, but when I did give up soda, turns out I didn't have to drink anything at all when eating. I drink water, vegetable and fruit juices made from fresh produce, and I don't miss soda, but it's nice to have when going out.

Hmm, that's actually very interesting. I have been in a stable, happy mood for years with only the occasional bout of depression. I am on 100 mg Zoloft. A week before Christmas, over 2 days I drank about 1 litre of diet coke because my mom did not realize it was diet when she was buying it. I was in a decent mood for those 2 days once again (due to the caffeine most likely) and then I quickly slipped into a depression the days following that has lasted for about a week now. I drink caffeine in coffee all the time and I don't experience any mood swings.

I'm not going to sit here and immediately jump to the conclusion that it was because of the aspartame that I slipped into a progressive bad mood, but it does interest me that the consumption of aspartame and a sudden hopeless depression occured in the same timeframe.

i am so thankful that i can still [god-willing] enjoy artificial sweeteners. i will not eat [much of] anything with actual sugar or corn syrup as they are fattening for me. i just wish somebody would invent artificial salt, a nutrasalt like nutrasweet but salty, for those of us battling hypertension. "no salt" [potassium chloride] reminds me of battery acid.

Nasty stuff. I've been avoiding it like the plague for years. Keep a food diary long enough and you eventually work out what's causing a lot of symptoms (migraines, nausea, racing heart).

If even 1/10th of the stuff said about aspartame is true, it's still something you don't want to go near.

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