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Aspartame and seizures
Tue, 04/17/2007 - 16:47Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
Hi there I'm new to this site but not to Epilesy I'm 53 years old had it since I was 3 and I was going to mention that did any one on this site yet tell you all that aspartame can cause seizures. I didn't know that until about December of 2005 but ever since I stopped using it my seizures are much better. Well I hope that this group is understanding Pamela
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Re: Re: Aspartame and seizures
Submitted by itsmyeviltwin on Tue, 2007-07-10 - 11:50
Actually neurologists are not in agreement on Aspartame. Probably Splenda will make somebody's hit list soon enough. My own neuro tells me a few diet drinks are fine, I like the PepsiOne too with Splenda myself. If I were having continued seizures, I also might might look into eliminating all additives...go completely organic to tell the truth. Too bad its so expensive. I try to buy free range chicken and I eat mostly veg now. And drink my weak ass coffee...LOL! Can't possibly give THAT up!!(gotta have once vice)
Re: Re: Re: Aspartame and seizures
Submitted by banffgirl on Tue, 2007-07-10 - 13:20
neuros may not all agree but when aspartane hit the marktet i started drinking diet drinks with it next thing you know i was in the hospital with a tc. neuro asked if any changes to life style since i had been under contrl. hubby said yes drinking new diet drinks, neuro said oh no, stay away from aspartane, you are the 3 rd person in here this week under control who drank that and had tc.
so i stopped and didnt have another one till i was in my 40s.
many years later. and yes i had been using splenda without seizures before my brain went bonkers and no one can contol it, now i pitty much drink water all day.
banffgirll
Re: Aspartame and seizures
Submitted by GodivaGirl on Tue, 2007-07-10 - 07:44
Ya, Aspartame is horrible in many ways from what I've ever read. I switched over splenda when I started taking topomax - probably in 2002 or so, and since then it has made a difference. Don't know where u live, but it's nice to see where I am in Ontario they're even making yogurt & things like that with splenda. Gets frustrating reading lots of labels though. Oh ya, did u know almost all sugar free gums have aspartame in them? That's how I actually confirmed aspartame triggered seizures for me. I'd given up diet coke because it tasted like metal & still picked up a pack of gum. Blacked out from chewing gum...strange, huh!