Can Diet Soda Cause Infertility?

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Registered: 02-01-2009
Can Diet Soda Cause Infertility?
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Fri, 02-13-2009 - 4:05pm
My neighbor just told me that drinking diet soda can cause temporary(at least) infertility. She said once she stopped drinking diet soda it took her 3-4 mo to conceive her dd. I am on month 2 and stopped diet soda about 1.5 weeks ago, allowing myself 1-2 regular sodas per day with water otherwise. Does it take long for the diet soda to leave your system or what? Really worried about this. Thanks.

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Registered: 11-02-2004
Sat, 02-14-2009 - 1:59pm

I'm really glad you shared this. For me, for a very long time, I've balked at theories about what to eat or what not to eat to increase your chances of conception. My biggest question was always: Well, what about crack whore alcoholics?! LOL Seriously? You're telling me they can do it and I cant?
I am a smoker and have cut back dramatically in the past year or so. Naturally it's a conversation that comes up at every single dr visit, and came up yesterday while I was talking to my fertility dr. Ofcourse I have no plans of smoking through a pregnancy, and I know it's terrible for your health whether

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Registered: 11-30-2008
Sat, 02-14-2009 - 2:49pm
I gave up soda when we started TTC.
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Registered: 01-29-2009
Sat, 02-14-2009 - 4:10pm
Googling this type of stuff can be good or bad, depending on the reliability of the source, your best bet for concerns like this is to just ask your doctor, I made a complete list of questions I had (no matter how small) and asked my doctor at my pre-conception evaluation. I find if you spend a lot of time looking up side effects of medications, food, etc. online you'll end up eventually eating nothing lol.
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Registered: 02-01-2009
Sat, 02-14-2009 - 4:15pm
Thank you. Yes there is tmi out there. Kinda scary but good to know.
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Registered: 10-25-2005
Sat, 02-14-2009 - 9:19pm

Not to further fan any flames ;)...but having a DH who is a biologist, as well as having plenty of experience in the scientific method in my own education, I tend to be VERY skeptical of this sort of information when it doesn't cite an actual scientific article. Coincidentally, I haven't found much of anything to do with the "dangers" of aspartame that can be supported by peer-reviewed scientific literature. You can say whatever in the world you want and let it spread like wildfire over the internet, and unfortunately a vast majority of people will believe it no matter how you obtained that information, kwim?

Because there is so little VALID information out there on aspartame (and, like you mentioned, a lot of other "questionable" foods and such), it certainly doesn't hurt anything to use it in moderation, but I would be wary of what you hear about these things.

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Registered: 01-29-2009
Sun, 02-15-2009 - 3:21am
Yes I'd have to agree with Shab, your best source of information is straight from the horses mouth, your doctor :)
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