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ASPARTAME ANYONE???
Wed, 05/30/2007 - 00:24Wondering if Aspartame also known as nutrasweet, (common sweetener in sugar free sodas and sugar free gum) is a trigger for anyone?
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Re: ASPARTAME ANYONE???
Submitted by debs-escape on Thu, 2008-03-20 - 04:16
I have never noticed seizures, but it gives me terrible migraines. I don't drink it anymore. I started a diet and was going to the ER about once a week. They gave me a pamphlet on things that trigger them and Aspartame was one of them. I gave up diet pop and don't get them anymore
I was diagnosed with temporal
Submitted by Siouxsie on Thu, 2018-10-25 - 02:45
I was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy at 16, however had never lost consciousness, I was told that I was having absence seizures which I always disputed since I only 'lost time' once.Fast forward 13 years, not really had issues, never been on AEDs, got a driving licence. However, was getting married and trying to keep the weight off. I began hammering diet coke, and tbh probably not eating enough actual food. And bam! I have the worst episode I've ever had. I didn't know where I was, I literally couldn't speak or do anything, and along triggered my premenstrual 'episodes' every month, about 7 times a day and debilitating. I ended up back at neurology where I was diagnosed with auras, I've had my driving licence removed. Once I thought aspartame might me the culprit... I've totally cut it out. Even if I accidentally have something with it in... I can immediately taste it, it's like poison. It's disgusting. I still have th auras, but maybe one or two each month and they're barely noticeable. I'm hoping that eventually they'll completely go away. Coffee doesn't affect me THANK GOD.
Re: ASPARTAME ANYONE???
Submitted by banffgirl on Thu, 2008-03-20 - 02:29
when aspartame first came on the market , i thought oh great. so i started drinking diet sodas with it. then my hubby noticed i was having lots of abscence siezures from a couple of cans a day. went to my neuro at the time and he told me to stop immediately. he said that there was a medical paper sent to imabout the dangers of aspartame and siezures. stopped drinking it, they went away.
God Bless,
banffgirl
life is fragile, handle with prayer.
when aspartame first came on the market , i thought oh great. so i started drinking diet sodas with it. then my hubby noticed i was having lots of abscence siezures from a couple of cans a day. went to my neuro at the time and he told me to stop immediately. he said that there was a medical paper sent to imabout the dangers of aspartame and siezures. stopped drinking it, they went away.
God Bless,
banffgirl
life is fragile, handle with prayer.