This is an exciting time in my life; for the first time in almost 10 years I am free from the Diet Coke addiction, and it happened all by accident. Those of you in the same shoes as I was know the damage that happens to your body when you consume large amounts of this type of drink over a long period of time. Let me tell you, it is not fun. The last few years I began to notice many things going wrong with my health and tried to deny that it was the pop I was drinking. Here is a short list of what I was experiencing: Migraines at least once a week, headaches all the time, dry skin and hair, jitteriness, joint pain in both my knees, extremely tired all the time, and this is only the short list. I tried so many times to quit but the withdrawal symptoms were just too much. One day I was just fed up and went cold turkey. Boy was that a big mistake. By noon that day, I couldn’t stop shaking and a Migraine set in that took me home early from work. I had to chug a can of diet coke before slipping into my bed with a hot wet towel on my head to try and sleep it off. I went to my family doctor the day after to talk to him about all the stuff going on with me. Can you guess what he told me after I shared how much Diet Coke I was drinking a day, and for how long I had been drinking it? It wasn’t pretty. When your body tells you that it has had enough and your doctor confirms it, then it’s time to do something about it.
This is where the pure accident happened. A good friend of mine came to visit me at work one day and asked me to try a new healthy energy drink that he had been using for a few weeks and had noticed great results with increased energy and none of the crash you get with other energy drinks. I had never tried an energy drink, heck I was already hooked on something else, but I agreed to try it.
Well….this is where I will leave off for tonight. Tomorrow night I will finish my story and share why this has been such an exciting time in my life.
Thanks,
Mike Witt
5 responses so far ↓
1 Linda Gonzalez // Feb 11, 2010 at 10:35 am
I’m 38 years old, and I’ve been drinking diet coke for years now, drinking only diet coke and an occassional glass of water when my body craves water. Other than that i’m drinking about 4-6 cans of diet coke a day (somedays 8 cans), everyday, for years. It is the first thing i drink when i get up in the morning (even if it is just a sip or two to get me going to actually get ready for work–how sick is that!)It actually wasn’t until just now that i’ve connected my weight gain, and constant fatigue with my addiction to diet coke. I also experience body aches and mood-swings. I never really thought of it as an addiction, until now. Help! I want to stop this!
2 Jacque Ballard // Feb 27, 2010 at 6:02 pm
I smoked for years and when I was in a place where I couldn’t smoke and left I was always thrilled at the thoughts of getting that cigarette. I am in the same boat now with diet coke. It makes me excited when I have a full two liter in the fridge getting cold! My symptoms are so similar to what I have read on this page. I want to stop drinking diet coke, but don’t know if I can….really!
3 Kathy Keller // Jun 1, 2011 at 8:54 pm
This is my first time posting on the internet. Hopefully it will work. I was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes in May 1979. I was 19 years at the time. At that time diet soft drinks were about the only “free” food out there besides mustard. Anyway, I experienced all of them; diet rite; tab; diet coke; diet pepsi and an occasional diet 7-Up or one of those clear sodas. To the point. I am now 51 and drink diet pepsi like water. It is my morning cup of java and what I drink throughout the day. For sometime now I have felt totally crappy. I know from the way I feel that this addiction is taking over and controlling my life. For those of you who have been able to figure out a plan to take back control of your life and your health, I ask you to please share your story with me. I am at the point where I feel desperate. Not sure what to do. I welcome any suggestions. Thank you!
4 Leslie // Jul 10, 2011 at 7:16 am
Kathy, I was in the same boat! I”m 50 , after i got an email from a friend about the damamges of diet coke, i took stock of how i felt, and i totally had most of the symtoms, i drank on last diet coke one nite, { saying good bye to it} and got up the next morning and drank no more, I feel so much better, ive been drinking a few power aids , some water, a little kool aid , just any thing that has no aspertame in in , i can say honestly I was hooked on diet coke ! try it and see how much better you feel
5 Gina // Jan 30, 2012 at 1:52 am
Hi, I am 56 years young and have been drinking diet coke, coke zero or pepsi max for years mostly about 6 cans per day sometimes more, don’t often drink water. Recently I am tired have a lot of muscle and joint pain, headaches and generally feel like I would if I were about 80 years old. Something is going on and after reading most peoples stories I am really thinking this aspartame may have a lot to answer for. So I am going to give it a try and give it up, hope I will start and feel much better
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