In Aug. of 2005 I had a real bad operation on my tummy. It took 100 days to get over the operation. After the 100 days I was better a few days I thought. In Dec I got up one morning fell to my knees I tried to yell for help and could not get the words to come out. People around here could not understand what I was saying I was slobbering and slurring when I tried to talk. I got up with help and would run in to the walls and my feet tried to go faster than my body. I was so scared. Went to the hospital here ER 3 times 1st thing they did was a drug and alc. test all 3 times they could not find what was wrong.
A couple weeks later I went to another county hospital ER same thing. A week later went to another county hospital ER. They did and said the same thing. The 1st 2weeks I went to a walk in clinic they gave me meds for enter ear that I really did not have. I had no health insurance at all.
The last ER I went too they told me to go to my regular doctor. I did and he asked me how many diet drinks a day did I drink. I said at least 2 or 3. Because I did drink at least 2 or 3. He sent me to a Neuro doctor.
I went they did a spinal tap and MRI and other things he really found nothing they did some guess work and said it was rare that he thought it was ataxiay cerebilitis ( http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/001397sym.htm) but I would be better in a couple months.
OK months went by and I was no better than I had lost all my motor skills could not write talk much and walk like a drunk. I fell all the time if i stood up very long or go to the store I had to have a wheelchair. I pulled to my left. They did test to see if I had a stroke. I could not remember anything. I would forget where I put something I put up 5 minutes before. The past year and a few months my Arthritis that I have had for a few years did not get twice as bad but like 4 times as bad. My kidneys got real bad like I was going every 10 minutes to let go of a few drops.
A few months ago went to ER here in so much pain after they gave me something in an IV for pain. I passed at the hospital 3 kidney stones 1 was about the size of a jelly bean 2 others were real small. While all this time I had no common sense at all. I could not comprehend nothing i had only a 1 track mind. I know that I am not telling all this in order but I am not over it yet and I am doing the best I can do. But I am much better. My nerves got real bad and still are but I will not take anything to control them. I got so depressed that I took and ordered a pretty leopard room rug and nailed it over my living room windows and made a frame around it made a pretty picture. But there was no light in there and could not see outside. I wanted to be in the dark. I had told my kids this last Christmas that this would be my last Christmas here. I really felt it. Each day I felt I was getting worse. I never felt any better.
About 6 weeks ago my best friend that lives here was listening to a radio with Dr. Blalock talking about Aspartame and he gave a website about it. We went to it read it and about all the symptoms fit me to a t. All the things the other doctors thought I had was just picking out like maybe 1 or 2 things.
But this site about Aspartame had all of them. So I went back to my family doctor and told him this. Dr. Lewis I did not lie to you but you ask me how many diet drinks did I drink a day i said at least 2 or 3 which is true but i drink 6 to 12 a day I craved them. He had done a research on Aspartame before cause of his wife had trouble with it. He told me to stop it so I did all at once. 2 weeks later i was thinking a little better my doctor has now took me off 1 of my sugar meds. Lower my hb meds and cholesterol meds. I am more clear-headed not dizzy. Walking straighter, not falling, nerves are not as bad, I am typing this, my memory is coming back to me and I am not forgetting as bad. I forgot to say since i have been sick I have trouble staying awake. That is not much better yet. My pain is getting back to like it was before.
Oh yes let me tell you about my kidneys. 2 weeks after I stopped Aspartame at 3 am I got up and went to the bathroom and I stopped and stomped the floor something did not feel right. For the 1st time since I had been sick my dancing feet was gone. I was walking right. And I went to the bathroom and my kidneys acted a qt. or more and ever since then I would go and each time do a lot at a time and I only go 3 or 4 times a day where I was going every 10 to 15 mins . at night i would go 5 to 6 times now maybe 1 time.
All i have done to help me is stop taking in Aspartame. I do not buy anything with Aspartame in it. I am trying to open other people eyes too.
Each day when i get up i do feel something is better. Now when i lay down to go to sleep I do not think that I problem will not wake up in the morning. I am no longer depressed and now I tell myself that I am getting better and going to overcome this and live.