Thank you so much for your report on Aspartame.
I am 47, female, and I truly feel that Aspartame has been a big part of my problem along with MSG, cheese, and caffeine. I have given up all of these for the past 40 days and my symptoms have improved by 85% I would guess.
I had all the tests like you – over seven months and they said they also felt I was beginning with seizures – the partial kind. I hadn’t lost consciousness yet but was feeling close to it. That diagnosis just didn’t sit well – it didn’t feel right, you know what I mean? They put me on anti-seizure medicine (Neurontin) for 3 months to see if my symptoms would go away. (I was still using NutraSweet a lot) the medicine didn’t phase one symptom. Then they put me on Inderal thinking it was a migraine type problem – migraine equivalents they called it – but Inderal didn’t faze my symptoms either – plus I gained weight!! I got so disgusted I tried the avoidance of migraine trigger foods – a list my sister sent to me thru E-Mail.
NutraSweet was on the list. As I said in a few weeks my symptoms were so much improved I couldn’t believe it!! How long does it take for that chemical to get completely out of your system? I suspect it might take a while – what do you think?