Is it automatic? Do you get a headache every time you use NutraSweet? The reason I ask is that I’ve eradicated sugar out of my life (even though my headaches weren’t being caused by sugar, as it turns out). I eat a fair amount of NutraSweet, but my one to two headache sessions a week would be far more frequent if they were only due to NutraSweet.
For me it seems to “build up” before I got the headache. I started drinking the Diet Sprite and switched to frozen yogurt probably weeks before I had the first attack, which is why I didn’t connect the two. I don’t know whether the NutraSweet had to build up in my system first, or what, but while I was trying to find out what was causing the headaches I began to get them within a day after consuming anything with it. After dropping anything with that wicked little symbol on the package my headaches stopped, and I have been free of them for almost two years.
I do have sensitivity to NutraSweet now. I did discover that not everything has the NutraSweet symbol printed on it. I had something; don’t remember what, but after eating it I got the “weird” feeling. And checked the ingredients: Aspartame. Thankfully I never got the migraine, which leads me to think it must build up in my system to trigger the headache.