Does Aspartame play a role in RSD pain?

My granddaughter has RSD and she has already missed 5 months of grade school because of it. Currently she is in the hospital again with a flair up from school shots. She is on major narks and the ICU doctors are watching her closely because of all of the drugs they are pushing into her. She still has pain and is depressed.

My grand daughter and daughter love to drink their pop. When I visited the hospital today, my grand daughter was drinnking coffee and had several cans of Diet Coke empty on her tray. Her pain was at an all time high. She told me that the doctors told her to drink the coffee as it will help her pains and cut her headache from the drugs.

I once again suggested that they stop drinking the coffee (she just turned 14) and the diet coke's to see if if might stop some of her pain. Once again, grandmother was told that their doctor said that it didn't matter as it didn't bother anyone.

After reading so many reports on the effects of drinking any product with aspartame, I am sure that it must play a role in her pain but I cannot prove it to them.

Perhaps you have the proof so that I can print it out and show it to them and stop this overload of narks going into her small body along with the aspartame in the pop.

[FurballsMom]

I don't know what RSD is, but I do know what it's like to suffer from chronic migraines.  I'm still working on my migraines with my own neurologist.

I have Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), so I'm quite careful what I put into my body, as I don't want a new bad reaction from whatever substance it might be.  I understand your concern about the Aspertame.  It affects me quite badly and makes my migraines and the associated nausea a lot worse.

My neurologist wants me to try LIMITED amounts of caffeine, whether it is in tea or coffee, for when the migraines are at their worst.  Since I'm sensitive to many things, I don't drink coffee everyday.  I can't even drink real tea, since it simply makes me sick.  My neurologist is actually quite pleased that I don't drink coffee everyday, because drinking it everyday would defeat the purpose in drinking the coffee.  The idea is to have the body NOT used to the doses of caffeine, so that the occasional spikes of caffeine will have medicinal and therapeutical affects on the migraines.

I can't name the specifics, but I do know of a great website to get the information you're seeking about the dangers of ALL artificial sweeteners, as well as High Fructose Corn Syrup.  Go to Dr. Mercola's website and use the site's search engine and you'll find the specific information about all these substances that you can print out for your family members and friends to read.  I'm sensitive to ALL the ingredients one finds in both regular and diet sodas.  And, diet sodas actually make me feel worse than the regular sodas.  If your family members are drinking the diet soda in hopes of losing weight or not gaining weight, Dr. Mercola explains why this doesn't work.  When I read the information, it made sense to me.  He also explains how to get over a sugar overload addiction that comes from drinking this "liquid candy".  

I don't understand the word "narks" that you're talking about, but I do know how bad nutritionally all pop is, especially the so-called "diet" pop.