It's not your imagination as it doesn't mine the same way. I drink mainly diet Dr Pepper and Coke zero and I've noticed it mostly with diet Dr Pepper. I haven't had this feeling always just more recently off and on .....
I started having the same problem too just recently. but i can openly admit.... i have been downing alot of diet pop for awhile. I think the burning sensation is also due to the carbonation of the drink itself. the fuzzy bubbles etc. if you drink alot in excess your tongue never gets a break from the carbonation hence the burning sensation. I can drink milk, water or eat anything and it won't bug my tongue at all. But then when I want a diet coke or pepsi it burns, sometimes i sip in small amounts and it doesn't bug me much, but if i gulp a huge drink of diet pop then it burns. it just recently started bugging me hence why I am here in the first place to get answers. The most obvious solution is simply... take a break from any carbonated beverage because I even tried a sparkling water and the same effect happened but as intense but it was sure the carbonation of the drink. I just downed a water with no pain.
I'm having burning mouth and tongue. I have been eating a lot of sugar free popsicles. I had cervical fusion surgery. Popsicles have been my main food of choice. And my mouth has started burning and is sensitive now to just about anything. I have drank diet pepsi for years without a noticeable problem. I only just thought of the popsicles and looked at their ingredients and saw aspartame. Funny looking on internet and finding this. Just an FYI. I am also contacting the company.
I also have a burning tongue and aspartame IS the culprit.
For four years I had unexplained tongue swelling. I had every test you could think of done. All negitive or normal. I was drinking crystal light peach tea. The night I put 2 and 2 together - I was heading to bed when I took my last swig of my drink. I remember saying ouch...the tip of my tongue hurt. That night my tongue swelled on both sides and I had a huge hematoma on the area of my tongue where it hurt. I've stopped aspartame and no more tongue swelling- headaches- fatigue.
I am not a user of sweeteners, but there is so many products with sweeteners in now, i know immediately on intake if it has sweeteners in as I suffer a burning tongue and a vile taste that lasts, as soon as I taste it I stop! Horrid stuff!
I have been using drink mix with it in it. My mouth burns now too.
Yes it can trigger burning tongue especially at the tip. 15 years ago it happened to me .While reading a huge fab novel, I was sucking on way too many aspartame hard caramels. It triggered what is known as Burning mouth syndrome. Just now I had a new occurrence with small tablets of sugar free gum...too many obviously. I am going through hell again, but I know what to do. Stop all form of it. I am not an md, but you dentist should know what to do. Good luck. Danielle
I Have switched from Diet Coke to Diet Pepsi because Diet Pepsi doesn't have aspartame in it. I do find that most restaurants only offer Diet Coke and if I drink one, I get sores on my tongue.
Hi. I also have had geographic tongue for years, so it has always been a bit sensitive, but since I've been adding half a small packet of Crystal Light to my water almost constantly over the last few months, my tongue is burning all the time. Just wondering if yours went away??
I figured out about the sore tongue/aspertame connection. Never connected the tittinitus. Geese I guess I’m gonna have to go cold turkey
I also get mouth sores and burning tongue from artificial sweeteners.
About 10 months ago I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, so I switched to everything sugar free. Soft drinks, Splenda, etc.
Shortly after, I started experiencing a stinging sensation on my tongue that followed by swelling. It would swell every other day or so. One night I woke up and it was so swollen that I couldn’t talk and went to the emergency room. 6 hours of running tests and they classified it as an allergy. I didn’t buy it because I have never been allergic to anything. Honestly I was thinking the worst, no way this isn’t some type of cancer, no way!
I continued to have swollen tongue and what looked like burn marks or ulcers on my tongue for months to follow.
Then one day it clicked to me that I started the diet stuff around the time I started having tongue issues. So I decided to just cut out diet stuff all together.
It took about two weeks and now my tongue looks and feels about as normal as it always had.
I’m going to make an appointment with an allergist soon anyways to confirm it, but I have no doubt now my culprit was something in those diet drinks, likely aspartame.
Shortly after, I started experiencing a stinging sensation on my tongue that followed by swelling. It would swell every other day or so. One night I woke up and it was so swollen that I couldn’t talk and went to the emergency room. 6 hours of running tests and they classified it as an allergy. I didn’t buy it because I have never been allergic to anything. Honestly I was thinking the worst, no way this isn’t some type of cancer, no way!
I continued to have swollen tongue and what looked like burn marks or ulcers on my tongue for months to follow.
Then one day it clicked to me that I started the diet stuff around the time I started having tongue issues. So I decided to just cut out diet stuff all together.
It took about two weeks and now my tongue looks and feels about as normal as it always had.
I’m going to make an appointment with an allergist soon anyways to confirm it, but I have no doubt now my culprit was something in those diet drinks, likely aspartame.
I’m just learning this too... after 2doctor appts blood test and a dentist appt... sugar free gum and any kind of candy or mints for breath
I bought some Acesulfame Potassium, to try as a sweetener, which is the basis for Aspartame. However, I have not been able to use this Acesulfame Potassium, because it burns my tongue. I cannot comprehend how it is described as a "Sweetener", and said to be 200 times sweeter than sucrose, with this effect! I share the previous guest observation about aspartame. Yes, aspartame will BURN YOUR TONGUE if injested, in its powder form!