Last year, I had been drinking Diet Coke constantly in a new job that I started last May, Breakfast, mid-day, evening. Probably 4-6 cans a day. Then I decided I liked coffee and started drinking coffee with Equal (Aspartame) in it. Sometime in September I began being very dizzy when I woke up in the morning.
A few weeks later, it progressed to the point that I was dizzy most of every day and it became severe whenever I would lie down. I went to see an Ear Nose & Throat doctor and went through many tests. Nothing could be found to cause the dizziness. He prescribed valium and a fluid reduction pill. I never took the Valium. Dizziness continued. Rolling over in the bed caused violent dizziness and resultant nausea. Shortly after the doctor’s visit, I had a friend tell me to just try cutting out all Aspartame for a while. I had my last Diet Coke/coffee with Equal on a Wednesday. It took until Sunday before it was out of my system, but on Sunday I woke up and was not dizzy at all and have not been dizzy since. I think that the HOT coffee broke down the Aspartame into methanol and was the final toxic blow. No artificial %$#% is going into my system any more (as much as I can help it).