Woman says her Diet Coke addiction triggered a brain aneurysm that nearly killed her

A woman has claimed that her Diet Coke addiction triggered a brain aneurysm that almost killed her.

Trace Lively has said that drinking the fizzy drink regularly over the course of her life weakened her veins and acted like "a welcome mat" for the aneurysm. The Ottowa woman recently underwent surgery to treat her condition. In a recent Facebook post, she wrote:

"If you have an aneurysm, sitting there in your brain, you can live your whole life and it may never burst, and most likely you would never know it was there. Nobody ever does. "Drinking Diet Coke is like putting down a welcome mat for these little bastards. It’s poison slowly weakening your veins and sucking potassium out of your system."

Brain aneurysms occur when a weakened blood vessel balloons, fills with blood, and bursts. When they burst they can cause strokes, comas or brain damage. Lively told Metro US that she doesn't blame the drink for causing the aneurysm, but that she knows it contributed to it bursting and to her ill-health. According to her, stress and an injury did as well. Lively said on Facebook that she would never be drinking Diet Coke again because she still has a "little (aneurysm) in there."

"You can bet your sweet asteroids you’ll NEVER see me drink another diet drink again. I also wouldn’t drink the high sugar ones either. I am a bloody miracle. "The doctors were very concerned in those first few days that I was not going to make it, BUT I AM MAKING IT!!! "Please listen to me. Stop putting poison into your body, because if you’re reading this it means I love you."