Re: Diet Soda-Pop & Asparteme ? / Not giving up/

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-Hey buddy,

If the diet drinks help with those horrible tremors by all means

have them. Ask any 95 year old coonass who still runs crab traps etc.

what their secret to longevity is and they will tell you...I ate what

I wanted, Smoked what I wanted, drink like a fish and slow down just

enough for the women to catch me. Sounds like the best plan for

healthy living to me.

Got to go...I'm being pulled towards the sofa....

-- In pancreatitis@y..., " gottabe_alakelover "

wrote:

> I am not going to give up my diet cokes. It was bad enough to have

to

> give the regular coke up. There are times when I get them. Low

blood

> sugar, and its regular coke!!! There are times when it can save

your

> life. There are times when a diet soda can save your sanity. With

> enzymes being a cause for pancreatitis, we have got to many factors

> to deal with. I have been hearing warnings against diet formulas

> since I was very young. My grandmother has drank diet for some 40

> years. She is now 95 and says she will continue. If it is good

enough

> for her for these many years, it is good enough for me! Grandma

would

> not steer me wrong. She has a formula to go blowing past the age of

> 100. I got to play check up to get from week to week. Today, I have

> had to do it to get from morning to night. The withdrawals were

> bothering me bad again, today. I learned from the 1st serious

batch.

> There is help without rehab. I can not get through this without

some

> diet soda. It helps take the edge off some. It also helps me with

the

> nausea and blood sugars. As far as diet sodas goes, I have never

had

> a problem, except for the taste. How many years before you like the

> taste? Grandma said she loves the taste of diet and not the regular

> brands. I have been trying for 8 years and can not say this. It

still

> beats water and tea all the time. So make mine Diet Coke. This is

not

> my fight, mine is with the shakes again. The catapres-tts patches

do

> not last as long as they claim. This is where a battle should be

> waged. I think the mice did not tell they docs this!

> Thanks,

>

>

>

> > Hi,

> > I need your help fellow members. I remember a while back that

> someone said that they were having trouble with NutraSweet, Equal,

or

> Aspartame. They said that they read somewhere that it can cause

> flare-up of pancreatitis.

> > Now even since I have been on vacation the end of July, whenever

I

> drink a diet soda I get a pain in my back and sometimes in my upper

> right side too. This is the same place I get my CP pain. I have

had

> my kidneys check out for a possible infection and they are fine. I

> know the easier answer would be just stay away from diet soda, but

if

> I want some, I need to drink diet, since I'm a diabetic. Sometimes

> you just crave a diet soda , so I give in. It doesn't happen very

> often, as I drink mostly Ice Tea, Water, and Sugar free-Juices.

> > I guess my real question is, does anyone know of a diet soda or

> drink that doesn't have Aspartame in it. I would like to try

> something diet that doesn't have this in it to see if the Aspartame

> is causing my problem or not. Maybe it something else causing the

> problem that I haven't discovered yet. I guess it back to the food

> journal. Thanks for your thoughts on the subject.

> > Take Care,

> > Louie in WV

> >

> >

> >