By trial and error I discovered that NutraSweet will trigger what several people described to me as a migraine. Absolute worst headaches I had ever had. Rendered me non-functional. I had never experienced anything like them before, but began to have these once or twice a month and they started to come on more regularly. A friend suggested that they could be diet related so I began to monitor what I consumed. After some time I narrowed it down to Diet Sprite and frozen yogurts with the NutraSweet brand sweetener in them. I thought at first that it might be the “coldness” of the food, but no other ice cream or cold drinks trigger an attack.
Now I avoid everything with NS in it and have not since experienced my “migraine” headaches. I had heard one person talk about an “alcohol bonding molecule” or some such in the NS that affects some people in this way. Has anyone here read or heard anything about this or had a similar experience?
I will say that I have now a complete and utter sympathy for anyone who suffers from this type of pain. I had heard about migraine headaches all my life, but had no clue as to the magnitude. Perhaps this info will help someone else who has the same sensitivity to NS that I seem to have.