I just read your long article on NutraSweet. I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which I attribute to chemical/pesticide poisoning which altered my immune system so that I was susceptible to the yet to be discovered virus that causes CFS. That’s my educated guess after over a year of “internet study and research”.
Nevertheless I do have a NutraSweet story. When NutraSweet first came on the market in the ’80s, I was drinking Diet Pepsi with NutraSweet and noticed migraine headaches were increasing in frequency and severity. On mother’s day 1987 I had such a severe migraine that I thought it was a stroke. I was in my 30’s so you can imagine how worried I was. I had a CT scan at the Wellington Regional Medical Center in West Palm Beach, and it was negative for a stroke, so they gave me some pain medication and sent me home. I have never had NutraSweet since then, and have been a fanatic about keeping my young children off of it. As the years have gone by, whenever I read something negative about NutraSweet, I am not surprised. It is sickening that most children’s medicine has NutraSweet in it.
It is a crying shame that you and others have been/are going through such hell, and ill health. All because of corporate greed on the part of Searle.