Diet Coke/Pepsi lover or hater? Please HELP!

i never drank any sodas at all until the last few years, after diabetes DX (just don't like the carbonation) ...

Ha, I was just diagnosed with BC 3 days ago and this is my first reply... to a soda thread! I wanted to reply, though, because Diet Pepsi is an all-time favorite of mine, and that is pretty much my only source of H2O. You could argue, possibly with good reason, that the artificial sweetener or some other utterly unnatural ingredient found in Diet Pepsi contributed to my BC diagnosis, but I honestly don't feel as if it did, although I've been drinking this stuff nearly all my life (I'm 54 years old). The thing is, I get every dang physical ailment my mother has ever gotten, and at exactly the same age she did. When a biopsy on my breast was ordered, I wasn't thinking artificial sweeteners or that I had the same minuscule chance of cancer as every other woman, I was thinking that my mother got breast cancer at exactly the same age I am now, and I totally expected the result I got. So yes, maybe artificial sweeteners did play a part, but my mother only drinks soda when she goes to a restaurant... she isn't even on the same diet soda planet that I am, let alone general category. My guess is that genes, more than anything else, including my life-long diet soda habit, were the primary contributor to my diagnosis. And that's really what it is, just a guess.

I use to drink a ton of diet coke before I was diagnosed. I stopped the month I found out I had bc. Diagnosed at 44. My mother was diagnosed at 40.

My sister still drinks is. No bc