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On top of it tasting bad, it gives me migraines. The only theory I have for why that is is that I'm allergic.
by brink 5y ago
On top of it tasting bad, it gives me migraines. The only theory I have for why that is is that I'm allergic.
- Kranar 5y agoAnother more plausible explanation is that it's psychological. It's common among many who believe aspartame is unhealthy that it gives them migraines or headaches, but in a double-blind study, every single person who self-reported adverse reactions to aspartame were unable to do so over the course of the study. On the other hand, those who claimed sensitivity rated very high on various psychological metrics such as perceived stress and anxiety: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4364783/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4364783/ This is not to say that you don't genuinely feel something and are just making it up, but that it's not a consequence of aspartame and is rooted in an entirely different phenomenon that you've associated with aspartame for one reason or another.