Diet Pepsi

Thanks for your concern. He started with the aspartame when it first came out and they said it "was safe", no calories, and no after taste (like saccharin). He was in the military and they were always after him about his weight so this was important to him. He drank lots of diet sodas and used it in his coffee and tea. After almost 25 years of using it he became diabetic even though he was only a little over weight (10 - 15 pounds), exercises a lot and has NO family history of diabetes. Worse, the doctors could not get his blood sugar down where they said it should be, had him on 3 different meds twice a day and were talking about insulin. I found out about the aspartame and figured it wouldn't hurt and might help to get rid of it. Just a couple of weeks with NO aspartame and his blood sugar dropped and is now well controlled with just 1/2 of ONE pill once a day. He will always be diabetic because of the damage it did to him BUT he is well controlled and it is no longer life threatening. His memory though was realy bad for a while. One time he stood in our Tai Chi class and made a very offensive comment about a politician. I later brought him proof that what he said was false. He denied ever saying it and said he would NEVER have said such a thing. I told him he said it in front of our class and next class he asked them if he had said that and they ALL said he had. Since stopping the aspartame no NEW incidents have occurred but there are still a lot of things that he doesn't remember from when he was using it during the last few years.

Thank you so much for the information and for the links i'll check them out. and sorry about your husband.

Please switch to Diet Rite, Diet 7 Up and any other diet drink with Splenda instead of aspartame. By the time the damage starts showing up from aspartame, it is sometimes irreversable. Also, I know several people who were misdiagnosed and treated for other diseases when they actually had aspartame poisoning. (Everything from MS, lupus, migraines, diabetes, fibromyalgia, etc. gets diagnosed instead of aspartame poisoning because the syptoms depend on what part of your body is affected and it is not the same for every one. Doctors will tell you that you are not responding well to the standard treatment or your symptoms are atypical and this is usually because you either do NOT have the disease you have been poisoned OR the aspartame is aggravating the disease and making it worse.)

Thank you so much for that information, i have stopped drinking diet pepsi and now i am more careful and look at the ingredients before i buy a diet drink.