I am 51 years old. Last year, I was feeling so much pain and stiffness in my legs (especially my knees), that I had gotten to the point I could barely get out of my car and walk into a store.
I would literally have to get out of the car and stand beside it for 3 or 4 minutes before I could start walking. I got really scared, because my job is in sales and I was starting to have trouble making sales calls. I remembered an article I had ready years ago in Oxygen Magazine about Aspartame, as well as a story in Readers’ Digest about a woman who was about to take her last vacation because she thought she would be unable to walk in the near future. Her brother (I believe) had read an article about Aspartame and told her about it and, within a month after discontinuing its use, she was able to walk on her own again.
I was drinking several diet drinks every day, as well as using Aspartame to sweeten cereal, etc. I decided to just try going without it, and within 2 days I could feel a difference. After a month, I was totally pain free. At the time, I was going to a Rheumatologist at the Kirklin Clinic in Birmingham because I have Raynaud’s Syndrome. I had told him about the pain in my legs and knees, and he put me on Mobic and 2 Tylenol Arthritis Strength every six hours. Although it did help, it didn’t completely alleviate the pain. He had done a series of tests because of the Raynaud’s, and because my father had severe rheumatoid arthritis, but found me to be arthritis-free. When I got off of the Aspartame, I went back for a checkup and told him about what I had done, and he said I was certainly not the first person to tell him this same thing. He totally believed I had “healed myself” — his words. Now, I am off of the medication and doing great. I have told several others who have gotten relief by going without Aspartame.
I try to tell as many people as I can, because it has made a tremendous difference in my life.