Hello I am Shirley, I was a victim who survived, but I didn't get off the "mess" soon enough, I have poor vision yes I have cataracts forming, I also have glaucoma, My glasses are also prismed so that they do not separate like a fish. I have and seems it is permanent at this point because I never knew better, Fibromyalgia,CFIDS, Myofacial syndrome, I have had in office and outpatient (under anethsesia) operation after operation on my "females" My mother was a very good woman many years ago..(right after this poison came out the doctor put her on a heart diet and eliminated sugar from her diet, I was on this with her for over a year--no problems--them I gave birth to my second child (after remarrying) and used it for jello-iced tea and a Myriad of things that I cooked, I was fine but feling a bit poorly from time to time, but I still worked like a dragon and took kids to daycare and cleaned house ,and it just seemed a bit more than I could do after being so active, along came child # 3 well, in the bginning of this pregnancy I felt awful, but after about 4 months I started feeling better..(Dr said it was because My body was at that point using some of the Baby's immune system) after she was born I had a SHOCK! I felt depersonalized, and nothig looked real and I was tired ..dog tired, I could hardly do anything, well long story short, I found out I had an incurable illness,I had to deal with that, and by then I was off the apspartame simply because everytime I used it then...it made me dizzy, well my mother kept a glas of iced tea with it in there or a glass of diet coke in  her hand at all times, She started complaining of weakness her personality suddenly hanged and she FINALLY went to the dr..she was cleared for cancer, however when the surgeon opened her up..he found very malignant cancer, I had a friend who owned a Bookstore whom the dr's kept telling he had low blood sugar and to atay OFF real sugar, he kept feeling worse and worse, we talked about it, and compaired notes as I had been told same a few years back before child 3, well, he kept seeing drs, and well, they finally found out he had cancer, (of the brain I think--could have been liver, He was a great friend but alas I had moved and was one of the last to know,) The man was so tired of the pain I am guessing, and finally went to a local Cemetary covered his head after he got out of his truck and shot himself, I have since talked to his business partner, and she said it was well left alone, as his family.(whom I did NOT know) was not investigating anything..and would not say exactly what had caused the cancer...that was like banging my head on a brick wall!.as for my sweet mother, God knows I miss her dearly, and my family (that I grew up in, has dispersed and no-one even sees one another and my father drinks like a fish since Mama died and he promised her he would never go back to it, but..he did..and I have no relationship with him now, or my 2 older bbrothers, not to mention I have a wonderful Husband now who understands--took me 6 years after my divorce, my ex went to Miami after tha hurricane, and he didn't send any money for us to live on..he ran around with other women, and he even tried to get the finance company to take the only car I had because his girlfriend didn't like his little truck, and here i was very ill with a babe in arms --this illness destroyed my family of 11 years, (that is not to say he was a prince chaming! if he had been a amn he would have heard what the dr had to say, not what he wanted to hear...he continued to use aspartame..as does his Girlfriend, and I hear he has some form of lupus, and she has something called crone's disease.....wonder why..guess he shouldn't have said I was lazy --you would think after 11 years of marriage and the first year together that we weren't married he would have know with common sense, that I would not go form a ball of fire to, being almost bedridden!

Mysticom40@aol.com aka Shirley R