Hi, just want to let you know that I drank diet soda(Pepsi) for years, and had headaches for years, assuming they were allergies and migraines with no real cause for concern, I would just pop some Motrins and be fine. Until I started having tingling in my arms and severe pain grew from that in my left arm to the point that I could not steer my car with it, I could only hold it in my lap and every position hurt. I also had severe memory problems and lightheadedness.
I just wanted to cry. I had tests also, I had an MRI, with negative results for MS, which they thought was a possibility with my memory problems and the Vertigo (dizziness) which came and went. I decided to quit drinking Diet Pepsi because I had heard that it can cause such problems and I started feeling much better in less than a month. My arms took several months before they felt normal again and now I can’t stand the taste of diet sodas and if I drink even a small amount, I get a headache. So, to all my former doctors who would look at me as though there was nothing really wrong and it was in my head, THANKS for nothing! And there was one who thought I might be RIGHT in my assumption that it was the Aspartame making me ill, THANK YOU for really listening and not brushing off the idea that something not researched enough or long enough can and does cause illness in people, as it should not have been put on the market until they studied it for a much longer period of time!!! I don’t really understand the FDA, and I wish they would be more careful.