Is aspartame (Nutrasweet, Equal, etc) the reason for my headaches?!
Is aspartame (Nutrasweet, Equal, etc) the reason for my headaches?
For the longest time, I didn't drink diet sodas but because I put on a few pounds from a sit down job, I have started to drink a diet soda every day and since then, I am experiencing headaches like 4 times a week. What do you think?
Answers:
I had a friend back in the 80's who drank diet coke all day long.
He got really bad headaches.
Those stopped when he cut out the nutrasweet-laden diet coke.
I would try the splenda (sucralose) versions.
Yes, they could cause your headaches. They also have been rumored to cause cancer, whether this is true or not I do not know.
However, for the longest times I've been having migraine headaches. My doctor told me that I have to quit eating chocolate, and prescribe me to take Imitrex. But that didn't work after quiting almost a lot of snack food, I happen to tell him that I drink a lot of tea but instead of using sugar because I'm afraid of the calories I use nutrasweet.
He told me that might have cause my headaches, so he told me to slowly change my Nutrasweet to Splenda. Now seven months later I slowly getting less and less migraine headaches.
there is much debate among the sweetener industry whether Equal has harmful side effects to humans or not. I personally have strayed away from nutrasweet and equal, but use Splenda. I've also read that Splenda also has some side effects, so I'm confused most of the time.
when i can do without sweetener, that's what I try to do. Which I think you should do...just try not to overload on artificial sweeteners. Avoid those sweeteners altogether, and see if you still get those headaches. Hope this helps.