http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/aspartame.rss http://www.earthclinic.com/template_img/logo.jpg http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/aspartame.rss The side effects of artificial sweeteners like aspartame and Splenda: get the truth! Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:19:47 EDT en-us http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_39650 /CURES/aspartame.rss1 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:27:38 EST [SIDE EFFECTS] Ga_bass from Atlanta, Ga writes: "Vertigo Eliminate Aspartame and sugar free foods and drinks. I realized after reading a article regarding aspartame on EC was linked to lupus and other aliments. I came to the conclusion it caused my Vertigo. I was overdosing on the stuff daily without being aware of it. I began drinking coffee at work with artificial sweetners 1-2 cups daily, had a diet soda with my lunch, then would drink energy drinks, chewing sugar free gum. ALLLLLL contained aspartame. Once I took that out of my diet and started paying more attention to the labels on the products I consume. Its one year later still no signs of vertigo. " http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_37784 /CURES/aspartame.rss2 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:27:29 EST [SIDE EFFECTS] Lizz from Edmonton, Alberta writes: "Aspartame I found out about the side effects of artificial sweeteners about 24 years ago. When diet pop first came out I started drinking large amounts of it I was 13, by the time I was fifteen I was having Grand Mal seizures. On new years eve at age 16 I had areally big seizure ( body arched for fifteen minutes followed by convulsions and remained unconcious until the next day) It was absolutely terrible. Shortly following this incident my Aunt called me saying she had read an article in a health magazine all about the dangers of Aspartame. She informed me one of the things it could cause was seizures. I stopped injesting anything with aspartame in it and have not had a seizure since. I have had a couple of times where I have injested it by accident and felt like I was going to faint and have a seizure, so now I am extremely carefull to check every label. As other artificial sweeteners have come out I have avoided them as well and do not allow my children to injest anything with artificial sweeteners. The effects of these poisons has been known for a very long time! Sadly our government seem to care more about the big corporations than they do for the health of the common people. " http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_26142 /CURES/aspartame.rss3 Sat, 02 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT Michelle from Northport, New York writes: "FOR YEARS I HAVE BEEN DRINKING MUSCLE MILK , SUCROLOSE AND ACESUFLAME POTASSIUM IN IT. LISTERENE WHITENING PRE RINSE HAS SUCRALOSE IN IT , COFFEE MATE HAS SUCRALOSE IN IT ECT ECT . I WISH THEY WOULD GET RID OF THOSE TOXINS I WISH THERE WAS SOME JUSTICE I COULD GET OUT OF THIS I HAVE TO REBUILD MY HEALTH ALL OVER AGAIN." http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_25810 /CURES/aspartame.rss4 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT [SIDE EFFECTS] Mildred from Downingtown, Pa writes: "Hello, just responding to the problems caused by splenda. i have been using splenda for about a year and 1/2 and have been healthly all my life. I only suffer from acid reflux, yet i had 2 seizures last year and in March of this year had a ruptured anuresum and i beleive it is from result of the splenda, but can not prove it. this should be taken off the market i am considering contacting a lawyer." http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_24996 /CURES/aspartame.rss5 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT [SIDE EFFECTS] Laurie from Pt. Charlotte, Florida writes: "ALLERGY ALERT! SUCRALOSE I called Memphis, Tenn. today where the bakery offices are of this wonderful chain restaurant. Why? to confirm the no sugar wild berry pie had artificial sweetners. We quit buying this pie because everytime I ate it-I simply felt terrible i.e. head fuzzy weird taste in my mouth...the nice people at the bakery portion of the restaurant told us there was no sugar and no artificial sweetners as far as they knew in the wild berry pie. Last night I got a craving for the wild berry pie. After 3 pieces (dinner and lunch)I started to have heart palpatations which prompted my call to Perkins..And indeed-there is artificial sweetner-not confirmed sucralose..in any case FAKE CHEMICALS bodies don't like. " http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_23038 /CURES/aspartame.rss6 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST Gillian from Portland, OR, USA writes: "Aspartame/Splenda: I originally found earthclinic.com when I was googling for natural remedies and came upon the cider vinegar cures for -- well, pretty much everything, it seems! That was helpful, and felt like the site was pretty reliable. But then I came upon a link to your page about artificial sweeteners, given when someone told about mixing their ACV with Splenda. I followed the link and was very surprised to find a lot of very dubious information, some of it so ludicrous-sounding as to make me question the integrity of your entire site. For example, the very first article about aspartame was one that I had just encountered on snopes.com a couple of weeks ago when I was researching claims made about Splenda. According to Snopes (a site that I trust implicitly when it comes to information about hoaxes and discredited urban legends), these claims about aspartame's dangerous toxicity and connections to the chemistry of fire ants, etc., are completely unsubstantiated, despite all sorts of true-sounding statistics and credits included in the scare stories. Snopes tried to track down the studies and scientists referenced in these articles and could not find them even after considerable time and effort was expended in their search. And some of these articles stretch the imagination so far that it's hard not to laugh at the absolute absurdity of some of their anecdotal claims, such as the following, quoted on your site in an article by "Dr. Jim Bowen", who is also apparently a cab driver: 'Upon hearing this, one of my fares screamed out: "Doc! You are sure right! Within a year of the time we started drinking Aspartame pop, three of my immediate family members experienced brain tumors, even though there had never before even been a single brain tumor in our entire known family tree. Moreover, all three then were dead within the year following, in spite of all which medicine, surgery, and radiation had to offer them!"' So what he's saying is that one day this man's healthy family started drinking Diet Coke for the first time in their lives, and within a year, aspartame brain tumors had killed three of them? Do you blame me for not placing a lot of faith in Dr. Jim Bowen after he's used this story from a "cab fare" as evidence of the evils of Splenda? Not only is this story purely anecdotal, but it's given by a cab driver who may or may not be a doctor, and the quote given is supposedly "screamed out", word for word, by a passenger in this man's taxi, just as he's written it. Who "screams out" things like "moreover" and "in spite of all which medicine, surgery, and radiation had to offer them"? Sorry, I just don't buy it. These recycled claims about Splenda have been circulating on the internet for years now, but I have never seen any of the actual studies they purport to draw from, and I have also never read any of this information in a newspaper or magazine that I would trust. On the other hand, whenever I am handed some new sensational claim or story in email or by word of mouth, I look it up on Snopes.com, a highly respected source of verification. Snopes does the research so that people don't have to get taken in by hoaxes or other disinformation campaigns. This is all very important for me, because I am a diabetic, and have to watch my carbs. Artificial sweeteners (and Splenda in particular, given its non-chemical taste) have been a great boon to my diet, allowing me to keep to a healthy regimen without having to sacrifice taste, and many diabetics depend on such sweeteners in moderation to help satisfy their cravings while maintaining their health. Please consider re-examining the information you're dispensing about aspartame. There may be down-sides to it, but I think that the hysterical claims you've reprinted here are gross exaggerations, and in some cases, complete fabrications. Sincerely, Gillian Nance " http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_21896 /CURES/aspartame.rss7 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST Brad from Port Charlotte, Florida writes: "I write blogs and one of the issues that I am writing about is the study of Stevia (a natural sweetener) vs. Aspartame. I already knew from years ago that aspartame was bad for you, and personally avoided using it or other man made sweeteners, but wow, I never realized just how bad it is. I would think that 92 bad side effects of aspartame and some deadly would be enough to scare anybody away from it. There are so many areas in the field of wellness that it is endless. Our FDA has really done a number on us in regard to trying to shut us up. It's time to clean up that operation of our government. Along with this I would like to mention the topic of Vitamin C and the work that Dr. Linus Pauling did in the study of Vitamin C. If somebody want's to make a study of their health, Vitamin C is the place to start in connection to what Dr. Pauling published. He left us a fantastic legacy in regard to using Vitamin C. You can find him on the internet. He died a few years ago at the age of 93. What a fantasstic life. I have so many issues to write about, but I'm afraid I'm running out of time. Thank you. Brad Vigansky" http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_21900 /CURES/aspartame.rss8 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST [SIDE EFFECTS] Catherine from Seattle, WA writes: "I was fighting a sinus infection last week after landing in California and went to a Whole Foods to get some Vitamin C. I decided to get Emergen-C to add to water because it had a really tempting fruity flavor. Immediately after taking my first packet (which was delicious), I felt a weird sensation in my head and then I got really edgy (as in bad mood edgy). I read the ingredients on the box and sure enough, the vitamin C used in this brand is Aspartic acid, an excitotoxin. The Emergen-C also contained "natural flavors", aka MSG. I waited 24 hours and tried again to see if I would have the same side effects. Again, within a minute of drinking the packet, I got the same sensation in my head. My question is, are you doing more good or harm to the body when you take this form of vitamin c?!! Also, does Whole Foods know what they're selling? I thought they had stricter standards than most health food stores about supplements! I now need to check the ingredients on the dissolvable vitamin c from Trader Joe's that I have at home to see if it's the same stuff. GRRRR!!!" http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_21521 /CURES/aspartame.rss9 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST David from San Diego, CA writes: "I did an enormous amount of research on sweeteners due to my sweet tooth. According to Dr. Janet Starr Hull writer of "sweet Poison" the only widely used safe artificial sweetener is Saccharin (Sweet N Low), that does come from a natural source. No confirmed cases of cancer in humans in over 50 years of use. The reported "cancer" in rats came from a push by sugar companies that were losing sales. Yes it causes cancer in rats in insanely large amounts (few hundred diet sodas daily). Nearly any substance in those large amounts will cause tumors to grow. I also use the sugar alcohols in small amounts. Another great lower calorie sweetener is Whey Low. Tastes exactly like sugar, since its actually made from sugar with 70% less calories and safe for diabetics." http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_21509 /CURES/aspartame.rss10 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST Sonya from Huntsville, Alabama, USA writes: "Thank you so much for trying to make the public aware of this epidemic. I myself am a victim of the artificial sweetener side effects. A couple of years ago in an effort to lose weight for my wedding, I started using "diet" products. Within a week, I was experiencing severe headaches, uncontrollable tremors, extreme fatigue, nausea and irritability. Thinking I had become hypoglycemic, I bought a glucose meter and began testing up to 6 times a day. My levels were always normal. At the gym one day, I met a doctor. Explaining my symptoms to her, she asked me if I used artificial sweeteners. I replied that I did and she told me to stop them and see how I felt in a few days. Lo and behold, my symptoms dissipated day by day. She explained that she had written articles on the effects of artificial sweeteners and that honey or natural sugar would be better than ANY artificial sweeteners. She explained that she had a patient that had come to her diagnosed with MS and after she told him to quit the sweeteners, he returned better, able to walk again and was able to cope without his medication for the MS. I am happy to report that 2.5 years later, I am doing much better and refuse to touch anything with artificial sweeteners in it. I try to warn anyone that I know. I've helped friends that had chronic headaches by informing them of the dangers of these sweeteners. Not surprisingly, their persistent headaches ceased. So thank you to everyone sharing their stories and helping to get the word out!!!" http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_21302 /CURES/aspartame.rss11 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST [SIDE EFFECTS] Rich from Boca Raton, Fl writes: "Here are my thoughts on Aspertame. I suspect that if someone has Gum Disease, or a leaky Gut, or Diabetes, then a higher concentration of Aspertame is absorbed. I would guess that the phenyl component might go to fight a fungus, allowing the Methanol to get into the blood and rise sugar levels, creating much more fungus, candida, etc... than it kills. For "healthy people", or those not afflicted by candida, etc... this may cause no damage. For others, this can cause major problems. **** The idea that sugar causes cancer has been around for a long time. That cancerous cells eat 15x more sugar, and are surrounded by lactic acid, and are anerobic(oxygen deficient), has been known. Of course there are many types of fungus and different types of cancers, and I am over-generalizing. Perhaps the candida eats the sugar, and the lactic acid is trying to kill the candida, but if it fails, the cancer has the ability to spread due to the low ph. Perhaps it's friendly bacteria, acidophilus or lactobacillus creating the lactic acid... then again you generate lactic acid through exercise, so perhaps the lactic acid is just a defense mechanism. Unclear. Gum disease is treated with Chlorhexadine mouthwash. Chlorhexadine also kills ringworm fungus, and has antifungal properties, so I suspect fungus involved there (perhaps Chronic Mucosal Candidaidis). Anyways, I suspect in some people they absorb much high concentrations of Aspertame, leading to Methanol poisoning and formaldehyde, etc... as you said." http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_20881 /CURES/aspartame.rss12 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST [SIDE EFFECTS] Angela from Richmond, VA writes: "I used to use Equal. I would have these sharp shooting pains in my head and it was frightening. I learned about aspartame and stopped using it. The symptom stopped completely for years. I noticed that recently I sometimes experience the symptom although not as severe. I wonder if they are sneaking this poison in foods that are supposed to be regular white sugar, although white sugar is a form a poison too. I think I will have to stop consuming foods even with "regular" sugar and maybe even the "no sugar added" ones too. I usually consume low sugars but a little can do a lot of damage for some. I have accidently consumed low levels of aspartame a few times throughout the years. Whenever I have, the shooting pains start immediately - the same or next day! Please be smart. Don't convince yourself it's okay just because it's on the market and you like the way something tastes and don't want to change your ways. " http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_20359 /CURES/aspartame.rss13 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST [SIDE EFFECTS] Lynn from Chiang Mai, Thailand writes: "SIDE EFFECT: 2 years ago I had a Bacardi Breezer and after a short time I experienced a grand mal epileptic seizure. I felt my hearing go and knew I was about to faint. I came to 4-5 minutes later by concerned net-cafe workers who were fanning me. I was completely white and had lost conciousness for several minutes while shaking and jerking. I just want to warn people of aspartame, I found out it was in the breezer and now I am very weary of this sweetener. It should be taken off the market. I have never had a seizure in my life, and being a traveller it changed my life in terms of travelling, and scared me to the bone. It is totally diregarding people and disrespecting people to keep using this msg and many other food additives. When will we have a say in what we put in us when often times the additives are hidden? And to Ted, thank you so much for such a great website, you are doing great work and have extensive knowledge. You are helping so many. deep thanks :)" http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_18758 /CURES/aspartame.rss14 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST [SIDE EFFECTS] Terry from PGH, PA writes: "diet soda recent forgetfulness and is unlike me as am a nurse... drinking diet soda and protein drinks... am aware i am forgeting and is bothersome..so attribute it to aspartame and diet things. am very tired and know i am forgeting calling people anddoing things. so am done drinking all diet things.... same thing happened to me after a week of using the sweet and low .. it is like you are aware you are doing stuff but cant control it ,, very disturbing thank you hope it helps some one out " http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_19044 /CURES/aspartame.rss15 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST Christine from writes: "This afternoon, I visited your site and noted a comment by a reader who said that Ester C made him enraged. It's not the Vitamin C, it's the aspartic acid in the Ester C product. I verified this with an aspartame activist. Aspartic acid is an excitotoxin, a poison that kills brain cells. Yep, it's the same stuff as in aspartame. All of the studies done on Vitamin C were done with sodium ascorbate, which is a type of chemically buffered Vitamin C. It's best to take it as a powder in water, because you can get gastritis if you take too many pills. Hope that helps, Christine http://www.aspartame.ca/page_a7.html "Aspartic acid is an amino acid. Well, amino acids are good for us, right? Don't they keep us healthy ? The answer is yes, amino acids are necessary for good health, EXCEPT when you separate the individual amino acid from its protein chain, and use it as an "isolate" or by itself. (S.Sawada, et al '98) In aspartame, these become synergistic toxins; one component playing off the other in a dangerous, systemic downward spiral. This eventually gives way to clinical manifestations; "hard-to-diagnose" health complications, and a myriad of medical symptoms and illnesses, which can eventually cause irreversible medical complications and death. Aspartic acid, in aspartame, is an excitotoxin. An excitotoxin, is a deleterious substance that excites or over stimulates nerve cells. This occurs in the brain, as well as the peripheral nerves, because aspartic acid, in free form, easily crosses the blood-brain barrier. This pathological excitation of nerve cells creates a breakdown of nerve function, as we will see. (L.E.Rosenberg, McGraw-Hill 1991) " http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_18241 /CURES/aspartame.rss16 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT [SIDE EFFECTS] Bruce from Christchurch, New Zealand writes: "I have been consuming about 1 litre a day of diet cola over a three month period. I started getting minor pain in the ankles and lower legs. I put this down to old age etc. In the last 2 weeks the pain became very intense with knees, shoulders and back involved. The pain was now intolerable. I could only crawl around the house. Anti inflamitories had little or no effect. I stopped drinking the aspartame sweetening drink six days ago and the pain has now almost stopped. I am of the opinion that aspartame was the problem. I am of the opinion that the product should be banned." http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=BMR_17255 /CURES/aspartame.rss17 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT Betty from Duluth, Georgia writes: "I'm answering the information on aspartame. It says Betty Martini does not exist. Yes, I do exist and have my own web site, www.mpwhi.com I'm the founder of Mission Possible World Health International. We are a global volunteer force in 39 nations warning about aspartame. I work with the world experts. An email I wrote after lecturing for the World Environmental Conference, was signed by Nancy Markle, and made world news. Front groups tried to say it was a hoax, but its not. Since lecturing H. J. Roerts, M.D. declared aspartame disease a world epidemic and wrote a medical text on it, and in fact, dedicated it to me. Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com The entire story of the World Environmental Conference is on www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html including my invitation to speak. Finally a movie was made to investigate called Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World. So please change your web site. Anyone who wants to know about aspartame can contact me and we have an aspartame information list on www.mpwhi.com scroll down to banners. Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder Mission Possible Intl 9270 River Club Parkway Duluth, Georgia 30097 770 242-2599 www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com and www.wnho.net Aspatame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame P.S. At the time this happened NutraSweet was owned by Monsanto. Try as they did to get people to think it was a hoax so many people walked out of wheelchairs, regained their sight, lost their fibromyalgia, etc. that they couldn't put out the fire and sold the NutraSweet Company. One of those people who walked out of her wheelchair was Cori Brackett, co-founder of Sound and Fury Productions who went on to make the film Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World. The world experts are in it as well as victims and myself." http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_16913 /CURES/aspartame.rss18 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT [SIDE EFFECTS] Bret from Phoenix, Arizona writes: "re: Artificial sweeteners: The blindness thing is real. As a nurse I did my thesis on elderly diabetics. One thing I found that blindness in diabetics, an ongoing issue without artificial sweetners,had become so prevalent that no one with a lick of sense could attribute the increase in blindness to variants of diabetes disease itself. What I did find was that as the use of artificial sweetners increased, so did the incidents of retinal deterioration. The curves when plotted on a graph were almost identical. This means as diabetics steered away from sugared soda, they became more and more blind. Bret" http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_16537 /CURES/aspartame.rss19 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT [SIDE EFFECTS] Dora from Augusta, GA writes: "I'm so glad I decided to google artificial sweetners. I am appaled to find out what they turn into in your body. I have been having panic attacks since I started drinking diet soda, I just never saw a conection. I also went to the Dr. last year with what my Dr. thought was an MS episode. I now believe it was from the diet sodas I was consuming. I am not ever touching the stuff again!!!! I've even given the stuff to my toddler on occasion. How could the government allow these products to stay on the market without a warning on the label?" http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_16283 /CURES/aspartame.rss20 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT [SIDE EFFECTS] Joyce from Joelton, Tn writes: "I urge you all to read this carefully and pass on to all your loved ones - the time is past due with Alzheimers and autism everywhere. http://www.phxnews.com:80/fullstory.php?article=11141 " http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_14441 /CURES/aspartame.rss21 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT [SIDE EFFECTS] Susan from Phoenix, AZ writes: "During the early 80's I had an eating disorder. It was not to the point where I would throw up however I could eat a dozen donuts and then go out for pizza. It was like there was no shut off. Then I would fast and run and work out to undo the damage. One Thanksgiving I ran 11 miles in the pouring rain after dinner then went back in and ate half a pie. I attended a health fair and there was a speaker there-a PHD specializing in anorexia and bulemia. I told her what was going on and she asked how much diet soda I drank a day. It was considerable amount. I drank it instead of eating after a binge. She told me to not use sacharrin again and the problem would go away. It affected the appetite she said. So I stopped using saccharine and the problem cleared right up. " http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_14235 /CURES/aspartame.rss22 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT [SIDE EFFECTS] Kelley from Toddville, Iowa writes: "In hopes of loosing some weight I started drinking diet pop. Before long I noticed that my hips hurt ALOT. I have been on celebrex for years to help with the hip pain, but when I started drinking diet pop the pain was so intense that I was doubling up on the meds as well as taking tylenal to help with the pain.Going to bed was horrible as it hurt so much. Once I stopped drinking pop all together my hip pain went away. I have stopped taking the celebrex and only need tylenal when I have over taxed myself." http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_13847 /CURES/aspartame.rss23 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT Susan from Missoula, Montana writes: "Does anyone know which gum or breath mints DO NOT contain Aspartame?" http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_12434 /CURES/aspartame.rss24 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT [SIDE EFFECTS] Mike from Davenport, USA writes: "I know all too well the side affects of aspartame. I was addicted to diet coke to the tune of 7-8 cans and sometimes bottles for nearly 10 years. Many of the things on the hit list for side affects I experienced. Headaches, migraines, joint pain in my knees, jitteryness and extreme fatigue. I tried so many times to quit on my own but the withdrawal symptoms were just too much. I broke that habit by accident in 5 days and did it without any withdrawal symptoms at all and I couldn\'t feel healthier. I have not had one headache, not one migraine, no joint pain, nothing. Read my whole story to find out how I broke this addiction. Thanks,Mike www.dietdrinkaddiction.com" http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/CURES/aspartame.html&name=RF_12395 /CURES/aspartame.rss25 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT [SIDE EFFECTS] Jennie from Fort Wayne, IN writes: "I had a recurring dry cough for over fifteen years until I read that it may be a side effect of artificial sweeteners. I cut way back on Diet Coke (1-2 small glasses per week) and within a couple weeks it disappeared."