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I used to drink 6 cans of diet coke a day... I quit 2 weeks ago... could this be adding to my anxiet

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Posted 5/16/2015 2:01 PM (GMT 0)
Waking up this morning feeling OK then plummeting I thought about the fact that I quit drinking diet coke about 2 weeks ago. I drank diet coke am to pm for 15 years!!! I started researching aspartame and SO MANY of the withdrawal symptoms I have!!! Is it possible this could be one of my biggest issues???
Posted 5/16/2015 2:30 PM (GMT 0)
that's interesting gypsy - did the anxiety start or get much worse when you quit?
Posted 5/16/2015 2:51 PM (GMT 0)
Yes it did!!! 1 week, 3 days... I thought it was just horrible Prozac side effects... But I'm going through the hub of it now plus I have Anxiety, ptsd, etc... I was at a point that I couldn't think ior sit down but I was/am exhausted ... 1 week of severe insomnia waking up with a panic attack... I would get up in the middle of the night to drink a sip of diet coke!!! I was an addict!!! Then last night I went to bed with the help of ambient which I do every night but last night was different. ... I usually would fall asleep and pop up like I was in fight or flight with anxiety... it would take me 3 hours to fall back asleep which would usually require another ambien... then 3 hrs later...UP!!!UGH UGH UGH...
Then I would be up and it was IMPOSSIBLE to even sit quietly on my sofa!!! Today, I laid in bed 2 hours before getting up, by now I would have had 2 cans of diet coke down!!! Diet Coqkqe actually effects the neurons in your brain. It will excite the brain cells to feel "good" then KILL THEM!!! Horrible!!!
Posted 5/16/2015 3:02 PM (GMT 0)
Wow! Could be the combination of aspartame withdrawal and caffeine withdrawal. But good for you for quitting! I never liked diet coke (I do drink too much regular coke and have cut back on it quite a bit), but I've heard people say its addicting, and in some ways worse for you than regular coke. if that's the case, i would think the symptoms would start to go away after a week or two.... i hope this gets better for you soon.

have you just started taking prozac or is that new too? because i've read it can make symptoms worse the first few weeks, before it starts helping.
Posted 5/16/2015 3:04 PM (GMT 0)
... oh, I just saw in your other post that you are going off prozac, i would think that could add to your symptoms. maybe its the combination of all three things.
Posted 5/16/2015 3:11 PM (GMT 0)
,little wing 75 I was on Prozac for 35 days I was so sick couldn't function couldn't sleep could sit still it just wasn't for me so I started on Zoloft 50 milligrams yesterday and believe it or not I feel a bit better... I guess it's because I already had an SSRI embedded in my system for 5 weeks so taking Zoloft just kind of picked up with a Prozac left off... Hopefully everything kicks in right and soon and quick I'm going to start taking omega 3 to detox the aspertine out of my body
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