Diet Croak©
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It all started off for me when I was a teenager. I'm currently 22 years old, soon to be 23. I would stop at the store on my way to work or school and grab me a Coke. After a year or so of this my mother got on my case to get on a Diet pop. Mother was worried about my large amount of sugar intake. So for a week straight I forced myself to drink Diet Coke. I recall my first sip made me gag. I hated it. Everyone told me in time I would just get use to it. No one told me I would become this Diet Coke addict! In time sure I got use to it, in fact I had a craving for a nice cold Coke one day. So I bought one, took a sip, and was repulsed. Tasted like pure sugar in a can to me. So Diet Coke became my new drink of choice. As I worked hard and long hours I found Diet Coke kept me going. Kept me awake, and alert. I soon noticed that I would rather have a Diet Coke for dinner too. Hey skipping a meal would help me lose a few pounds. I would drink on average two 20oz bottles a day. On a good day only one. A few months had passed. I started buying a liter or two a day. I was so thirsty all the time. Sure I drank water here and there as well. I had to have something to drink non stop. My mother became very worried and had me into the doctor's office for a diabetes check. Well my test came out a 75. No diabetes. So why the heck was I so thirsty and drinking so much. hmmm. A year had passed. I was buying 12 packs of Diet Coke now. I would grab a 12 pack every other day. Hey had pop at home when ever I wanted. I drank up. My mother by this time was worried about my consumption of Diet Coke now. Which had gone way over my Coke addiction. Mother had heard about the new Aspartame talk. How aspartame was bad for you and caused brain cancer. Well... I shrugged it off. I wasn't going to die of brain cancer. That happens to other people. My whole line of thinking was "other people" get it. A few years later. There I was sitting in hospitals with my mother who was dying of cancer. Going down to the soda machines buying several cans of Diet Coke at a time. I kept up my good pace of a 12 pack every two days. Hmm cancer happens to other people. My mother wasn't other people. Fifteen months later my mother died of cancer. I had just gotten to work that morning when my aunt called me. My mother died 10 minutes after I walked out of the house. First thing I did was go back to the cooler (worked at a connivance store at the time) grabbed me a 12 pack of pop, a pack of smokes. Paid for them and drove back home. So mom died. I'm alone. Living in a house by myself. I became a hermit. I would go to the store and grab a case of Diet Coke. There were days I would drink a case of Diet Coke. Mostly I would just drink a case every two days. On March 11th, 1999 I was sitting right where I am now. I was feeling very sick. I hadn't felt good for a few years now. I was always tired. Full of aches and pains. Felt like I was ready to have my 90th birthday. That is when I realized how much Diet Coke had taken over my life. I was spending so much money on it. Now that you know the basics of how I started out. I would like to tell you my story further. On how I felt. How I feel now. So what symptoms did I have.... Thirst - Weight gain (50lbs) - Tired all the time - Aches in my joints - Throbbing headaches - Hair loss - Blurred vision - Mood swings - Depression - Couldn't think straight - Lived in a haze - Cramps - Rashes - Numbness in my legs & arms - Confusion Those are the symptoms that bothered me the most. The hair loss caused me great pain. As a teenager I had the thickest most beautiful hair. I would comb my hair and have a sink full of it. Just running my hands through my hair would produce a hand full. It fell out all over the place. My mother was worried when this started to happen. She thought maybe I needed some good vitamins. So she got me some. I took them. Hair fell out just as much if not more. By the time I figured out what was causing it. I had lost about half my hair volume. I had aches and pains all over my body all the time. I felt old. My head would pound so bad with headaches. I felt miserable. It would get to points it was like my body would just shut down on me. I would run high fevers. Pains in my back and neck. Headaches that about pounded out of my skull. I would go to the doctor get poked and prodded with no answers. I would be to sick to drink Diet Coke. No wonder it went away after a few days. A few days before I stopped I went to lay on my couch and my arms and legs went numb. I have no doubt in my mind that I was over loading my system with aspartame. On March 11th, 1999 as I said before. I just couldn't take anymore of the pain. I was talking to my boyfriend and for some reason I picked up my Diet Coke can. The word ASPARTAME stuck out at me. Now you need to understand I was drinking a case of this stuff every other day. I heard it was bad but passed it off. So I typed in Aspartame into Excite and I found www.aspartamekills.com. I read the information there. I dumped my Diet Coke out and I have not touched it since. All those symptoms above I listed. They are all gone. Every one of them. My hair is even growing back. I can comb my hair with out a ton of hair on my brush instead of my head. My hair stopped falling out with in a week. It is amazing how I feel. My headaches cleared after only a few days. My aches and pains followed. In just a few days. My family was telling me how much better I looked. My skin glowed. My rashes cleared up. My attitude changed. My grandmother noticed my hair shinned. That I didn't look so tired and drawn out. People out there can say I'm full of crap. I really don't care what they think. I know what caused my problems. The only thing I ditched was aspartame. I feel fine now. Everything that was making my life a living hell health wise is gone. I'm so thankful that I ran into the information when I did. Who knows how I would be feeling today if I had not. Below is my boyfriend Matthew's words: Courtnee had an addiction that was killing her. If most people heard that, they would instantly assume she was a drug addict or an alcoholic. She wasn't. She was addicted to Diet Coke. She would drink almost a case a day. We both figured, well at least it's not regular pop with sugar, so it can't be that bad for you. How wrong we were. When I first met Courtnee, I fell in love with her. Of course I thought she was beautiful and had a great personality, what guy wouldn't? When she began to complain about things like losing her hair and feeling bloated and irritable, I kind of pushed it aside. To me she was perfect. However, as time passed on, I noticed that it would take less and less to get her upset and agitated. I tried to think of what could be causing this, and passed it off as her just being a woman. Things got worse and worse and it started to put a strain on our relationship. I was miserable and she was miserable, and the worst part was we couldn't figure out why. Somehow she stumbled across the aspertamekills.com and things started to make sense. We both read the horror stories of other people who suffered similar side affects. It wasn't a tough decision for her to quit drinking Diet Coke; the tough part was mentally and physically fighting the addiction to aspertame. She's been aspertame free for a month now and I'm amazed at the changes. Her hair, which I thought was pretty to begin with, is gorgeous now, much more shiny and thick. She has more energy, her eyes sparkle now, and I think she just feels better all around. Courtnee's moods have improved 100% too! She's no longer upset or irritated by the slightest things. I'm helping her as much as I can and I'm confident she will soon make a 100% recovery. Thank you for telling us about aspertame and helping me get Matthew Ritchie Now that I have been off all aspartame products for a little over a month. I spend a lot of my time supporting others. I tell everyone I know about Aspartame. Some get mad at me thinking I'm a fruit cake. I don't blame them. I laughed at others when they told me it was bad news. it took me to see that others out there felt the same way I did. The same symptoms. Reading what this aspartame crap really was to get it through my thick head. Now when I see others coming around for support feeling terrible. They stop aspartame and feel great. How can I not support that. I know it worked for me. I urge anyone reading this. If you are drinking or eating aspartame or know someone who does to please get off it if you have any of the symptoms. Even if you feel like your headaches and aches are from something else. Try getting off aspartame for a bit and see. Give yourself that chance. You may be able to live life again with out all the pain. Anyone who would like to talk to me please feel free to e mail me. Even people who think I'm nuts and I make you mad. E mail me with your thoughts. Courtnee M |
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Before and after pictures of Courtnee - below, notice the complexion and the hair - |
