I would like to register a complaint about NutraSweet. I have experienced headaches, short term memory loss, dizziness, and seizure-like symptoms while consuming this product.
Because of the above symptoms, I spent several years seeing neurologists who ran a litany of tests. Amazingly, all tests showed absolutely no abnormalities. According to the doctors they could not identify any reason for the seizures or other symptoms. Nevertheless, I should take the seizure medicines Tegretol and.
All along, I knew there was a cause for the symptoms even if the neurologists couldn’t find it. I am not one to give up without an answer and I knew the seizure symptoms did not appear out of the blue.
However, I remembered during a 3 month trip to Malaysia, during which I had no access to NutraSweet, that I had no seizures, no headaches, and no memory loss. Just a coincidence, absolutely not.
Therefore, I decided to try a little experiment. That experiment was to end the consumption of all Aspartame, and of my seizure medicine. That day was December 27, 1997, my birthday. Since this day, I have not had any seizures, any headaches, my memory has returned, and I feel 100 times better. Coincidence, not at all.
I had been having headaches daily. I had been having constant memory problems which threatened the completion of my MBA. I had been having seizures regularly even while on neurontin and tegretol. Coincidence that all the symptoms ended when I removed Aspartame from my life. Absolutely, positively not.
Seems to me that I may well be able to prove a causal relationship between my consumption of NutraSweet and my health problems. Therefore, I am in the process of searching for an attorney.
For now, I realize that this is just anecdotal evidence, and that Monsanto doesn’t give a damn about my health. Though in an very minute way they care about me because I will never consume that which is poison to me, NutraSweet.