Thought I’d send this to you. I’ve been to the doctor on and off for the last four years and recently went to see an endocrinologist regarding my symptoms. I wanted to get to the bottom of it as I’ve noticed debilitating conditions increase over the last four years.
Did a 24 hour (urine) exam that I’m waiting to hear back on, but last night came across this astounding revelation that touched on all my symptoms.
(I have reports from my primary doctors for the last four years with symptoms of anxiety, insomnia, joint pain, hypersensitive adrenal response, fatigue, hives, and failed cures with prescription medication. I have copies of my records too.)
Today I threw out all traces of Equal. Funny how they talk about the addiction, I had a box of packets at work in my desk, and at home.
Wow, just got off the phone with mom about this. There may be too much coincidence with the fact that I’ve been having 3-4 packets of Equal in my coffee every morning for the past 4 years. . The same time that my symptoms of anxiety, join pain, insomnia, light-headedness began.
I’ll have to wait and see; as they say it takes a month or two to get your system back to normal after long term intake. But already noticed, yesterday I had 4 Equal packets in my coffee and got real lightheaded in the afternoon (which I thought was from low iron and protein), so today I didn’t have any Equal and what do you know-NO light-headedness?!
Granted I still may have some underlying challenges, but this could have been a major contributor to my problems. If so, I’d like to sue their company. When I think of the lost productivity, car accidents that followed insomnia, relationship impact, health bills.
In fact even one of the owners of Equal; his son developed a debilitating disease that he thinks was from excessive use of Aspartame. It’s hushed because there’s so much money gained from the product.