I began to have head tremors about a year or so ago, and they were getting worse. Whenever I was tired or sitting still watching TV or (very embarrassing) in the middle of a meeting, my head would shake. To the degree that caused me great concern. I went to the doctors but all test including an MRI told me nothing was wrong. I knew better. So I got on the internet and put in “head tremors” that’s when I found the Aspartame reaction page. You have no idea what it was like to “Possibly” know what was wrong. After 2 months of giving up Aspartame, my head still shook and I was about to give up, thinking I must be wrong, but into the third month of not drinking my usual 3 Diet Cokes a day, not only have the tremors let up, I can actual think much, much clearer and don’t forget what I’m saying in the middle of a sentence. I feel like the “fog” I have been in has lifted. But that’s only the beginning.
Ten years ago I almost died. Are you ready for this from seizures that had no cause, no cure? Back then I drank diet soda constantly also and gave it up during one of my “hospital” stays. They never did find out what was wrong with me. I was on medication like you would not believe when I was sent to a doctor at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT who decided to remove me from the unbelievable amounts of medications the previous doctors had me on to start from scratch. I was even scheduled to have surgery to have a part of my brain removed to stop the seizures. But as she began to lessen my medication, I was able to stand up and walk across the room without having a seizure, I was able to remember who had just visited me, I could go on, but you get the picture. The final diagnoses because there was no other answer was and I quote “convulsive syncope brought on by non-epileptic medicines”.
I went from an invalid who could not move to an unbelievably busy person. When the tremors started, so did the fear. I will never know if it was the Aspartame that almost killed me, all signs point to that fact, but I do know for a fact, that the Aspartame caused my tremors and brain fog.
Thank you for spreading the word, I look forward to feeling better and better every day. And please encourage people to not give up, the poison takes time to get out of your system.