I would like to explain to you the reader that what I am about to tell you may sound like something you are going through.  If it does then you may be a victim of aspartame poisoning like myself and thousands of others out there.  After you are finished reading I invite you to take the aspartame free test for 60 days and see if your symptoms improve as mine have.

Sometime around November 1995: I remember being in shock when the doctor told me that I had hypothyroidism.  There seemed to be a numb feeling that hit my whole body as I agonized that I was indeed mortal.  I had gone to the doctor because I was having pain in my chest and I just didn't feel right.  He discovered my thyroid was swollen and through blood work found my thyroid had quit working. I had just put myself on a diet and was proud of the weight I had started to lose from pregnancy two years before.  Of course I consumed a lot of dietary aids such as Diet Coke, sugar-free snacks and also fat free foods.  I had been drinking diet coke since 1991 when I married my husband as it was his favorite beverage.  I had no idea that I was poisoning my body

My Doctor put me on synthroid and I began to buy books and read up on Hypothyroidism.  But the symptoms in the book did not match what I was feeling.  According to Hypothyroidism, the person is sensitive to cold, can get thick dry skin, feel tired, and have poor concentration .  Granted I was sensitive to cold and I was tired and having troubles concentrating, the doctor caught the hypothyroidism before I developed thickening of the skin.  But the other symptoms I had were not mentioned.  Blurred vision, intense joint pain, severe mood swings, tingling going down my spine, severely dizzy to where I had to hang onto something to keep from falling, I could no longer remember certain things as easily as I once had, I felt tense all the time and it was hard for me to get out of bed and do anything. 

I poured through books trying to find the answers.  I would run to the emergency room or to my doctor sometimes because I suddenly was convinced I was dying.  ALL the doctors told me I was having panic attacks.  Slowly I got accustomed to the dizziness and found a certain balance in walking, but I never have taken the chance to run as I feel sick if I do.  I contacted the National Thyroid Foundation and spoke with them about my symptoms.  They said they had never heard of anyone having these type of symptoms and that maybe my medication level for thyroid was wrong.  So for the following year I was back and forth to the doctor and finally to a specialist who told me that I was just having panic attacks and wanted to just keep my dosage at a certain level and leave it at that. 

Now I was doomed, I felt that my life was over, I remember crying because I wanted another child and I was told that it would be hard for me to have children with my condition. (I was prone to having miscarriages)  I remember waking up one morning and I was convinced that I had arthritis the pain was so bad and the tingling had now spread down into my right arm and right leg and they felt almost dead as if I could not lift them.  Once again I adjusted, I became used to using more strength and concentration to move my leg and arm.  Another year went by and I was gaining more and more weight.  I didn't go on another diet, I tried to exercise but that became too tiring.  I was still drinking diet coke all the time.  I told everyone I liked the taste of it.  I didn't know it was addicting.

October 1996: I became content with myself, I had received counseling from a friend who helps women with any type of problem.  I just accepted the fact that I was sick all of the time.  I became aggravated because I never felt like playing with my son.  My husband thought I was in a constant state of PMS.  Then a miracle happened, I was pregnant with my long hoped for little girl.  My pregnancy was hard on me, I didn't stop drinking diet coke.  I cut back but it just tasted so good that I had to have it.  (Should have been a clue)

After Elisabeth was born I had severe back pain and I lost the feeling in the tip of my right ring finger.  The chiropractor  said it was from a pinched nerve.  It didn't go away and soon my toes on my right foot followed.  Every morning getting up was a chore.  I felt like I was 100 years old instead of 27.  The leg cramps and joint pains were awful.  The constant feeling of not being with the world was awful.  I had long since stopped seeing the doctor.  But started thinking maybe I should, maybe I have multiple schlerosis.  Then I remembered these words...its just a panic attack.  No doctors for me.

A big surprise came in July of 98.  I was pregnant again.  Not planned on but then what is in life?  My pregnancy again was horrid.  After Isabelle was born I noticed bright flashes of light in my vision and I got headaches from the living room light.  Sunlight felt like daggers at times.  I realized I had become a recluse refusing to leave my house.  Four and a half years I have suffered feeling like I was slowly dying.  Wondering if I would be there to see my children marry.  Would I ever hold my grandchildren?    

I was sitting in my favorite chair nursing my daughter Isabelle thinking about going to see the doctor because I had started to feel weak and the numbness and the tingling had moved over to the my left side .  My roommate had just returned home and I was about to ask him if he could take me to the doctors sometime the following week when he said "I am never drinking diet coke again"  I laughed..my paranoid roommate... Ha Ha Ha... but I had to ask.. Why?

He told me of aspartame.  He had heard about it from a friend at work who had received an e-mail about it.  I was of course skeptical, as you the reader might be.  I decided to check it out online.  When I started reading the symptoms of aspartame poisoning, alarms went off in my head.  Mentally I checked off symptom after symptom.  I read take the 60 day aspartame free test and see if you feel better.  Sure... why not?  Day one I felt tense and on edge I wanted a diet coke.  Day two I got violently ill in the morning and I started itching.  Day three and four I started to have ENERGY!! 

 It has now been almost two full weeks without aspartame.  I have feeling returning in my right hand and the tenseness is gone.  My vision is IMPROVING.  The joint pain is lessening, this morning I got up out of bed and the pain was not there.  And then the world came into focus for the first time in four plus years.  I am smiling and my husband thinks I have found a wonder drug.  I have....Its aspartame and its a wonder that it ever got approved for human consumption!!

Please, I encourage you to stop eating or drinking anything with aspartame in it for sixty days.  And then when your symptoms improve I encourage you to help get it off the market. 

Thank you,