Diet Coke Headache Reddit

Today it occurred to me that diet coke gives some people headaches.

Diet coke headache reddit. 12oz cans aren t available at walmart walgreens cvs or costco. Today i skipped the diet coke and i feel completely satisfied and headache free even though i ve eaten less today than in past days. 11 votes 14 comments. Most artificial sweeteners after reviewing the evidence seem to be reasonably safe in moderation for most people i e.

And that evening hunger i was feeling was a hungry headache. As long as you don t have certain metabolic disorders don t take in huge amounts and don t get reaction headaches or anything like that. Diet coke is no where to be found in dallas what s going on. Just wanted to know if this is a common reaction to diet coke diet soda and what ingredient is likely the culprit so i could find an alternative that doesn t cause me pain tia.

There is a little bit of evidence but nothing conclusive that the artificial sweeteners in the diet products could themselves be harmful another sweetener saccharine that used to be in diet coke was found to cause cancer in lab animals in extraordinarily high doses although it remains on the market and according to wikipedia a little of it is still in fountain diet coke. A lot depends on why you are drinking diet coke compared to normal coke and how much you drink. Or as it turns out a diet soda headache. Almost half of americans drink diet soda every day and while you might assume that diet coke is better than regular coke it can still harm your body in a multitude of ways.

I love diet coke so i usually drink it anyway oops but on days where i don t drink it or don t have any in my house i usually don t have headaches or there not as bad. I ve tried googling the question but the hits are less than unbiased cult of diet coke aspartame is poison etc and figured ask reddit might be able to provide some objective information. The only unique thing about the headaches so far is they are usually localized to the back of my head typically on either the left or right side. It s been out of stock intermittently since july but only in the last two weeks has it been consistently out of stock everywhere.