Welcome all; here is my story to share with those interested. My name is Sean Houlihan and I am 36 years old now. As a 17 year old weight conscious teen began drinking a six-pack of diet coke per day.
About 4 months later developed “dizzy spells”. They progressed to seizures that I had for 16 years. In 1986, as my seizures started I brought it up to my doc’s that could it be the diet coke? They dismissed it. I had severe anxiety, seizures, depression, and later manic depression. I had a right temporal lobectomy (brain surgery in 1997 for my seizures). I was appointed to the Board of Directors at the Epilepsy Foundation of MA, and spent 2 years on the board.
About 1 year ago I figured it out. My brain surgeon now agrees that it was Diet Coke. He says that they didn’t even know in 97 about aspartame (at the time of my brain surgery) but now they do. All my brain studies in the hospital (about 2 months’ worth, sleep EEGs, MRI’s, surgery, I was having nurses bring me 4 -5 diet cokes per day.
My story is sadly repeated across the country. Identical stories, people put on the same seizure medication I was on for 14 years. I was one of those people who drank diet coke all day and night for 15 years, 15 ruined years of my life I have documentation from my surgeon who now agrees with me. By the way, I’m not a quack either, I’m a successful business person who owns http://www.QuoteMeAPrice.com, http://www.PersonalsSites.com, http://www.HotAmericanSingles.com, http://www.HotLASingles.com and Dallas, NYC, etc.
I regularly threaten Coke, with emails, and voice mails to the head nutritionist at corporate that when I get funded for my business, and my dating sites become the hottest sites in the country, and on MVT, Reality TV, etc. My story is all over my sites. Feel free to pass this along, post it, etc. Sean C. Houlihan