@Scooter9:

Glad to hear your backdoor woes were healed with relative ease. I hope mine will be too! Did you have to have a colonoscopy? How did it go? I hear they are wretched, dreading having one.

Just a note that i am actually trying to quit diet cola completely. I haven't mentioned it before but i actually have tried to reduce or ration it. I put the cases out-of-sight in my bedroom closet and just put one in the fridge to chill. I thought that would discourage me from over-indulging but it didn't. Then i tried putting the cases down in my storage locker in the basement where it would be less convenient to get at them, and only available limited hours. That didn't work. Then i tried not having any cases on hand at all and just buying one, one single can at a time from the convenience store in my building. That didn't work, plus their prices are highway-robbery.

So, reducing consumption doesn't work. I guess it's only total abstinence for me.

Thanks for your support!