“My wife suffered for many years with daily blinding headaches that nearly led her to suicide because she could not cope with the severity of the pain. Our doctors continuously misdiagnosed her problem and even though she was also having black outs and vision loss to name just a few of the problems, these doctors fed her many varied cocktails of medication and even thought she was paranoid. The real problem was not finally noticed until she tried to get a driving license. She failed because of bad eyesight, which had just been tested three days previous. So after a second test a specialist was flown in from the United Kingdom who diagnosed she was indeed suffering from a brain tumour.
“She had emergency life threatening surgery on the 10th December 2002 and a tumour of 7 centimetres in diameter was removed. We still did not fully understand why she developed this tumour then, but just recently we received an interesting piece of information from a friend who felt that our daughter who is 18 years 9 months may benefit from the information it contained, because she suffers from epilepsy.
“Our daughter has suffered severe epileptic attacks at night since she was just 3 days old. I personally have had to tend her for as many as five times a night for that whole time until I received the information on aspartame. I was stunned at which might possibly be causing these attacks, more so that our doctors for all these years had never even mentioned to me that such a possibility of food additives such as aspartame, which I had not even heard off, so decided there and then to remove all known products with aspartame from our home. There were many products containing this poison, which we were all consuming on a daily basis.
Since we stopped the aspartame intake, our daughter has not had a single seizure for the last 2 consecutive weeks. This is incredible and clearly demonstrates that it is the aspartame that has been causing all the problems. Because of this I have now began a serious awareness campaign on the Falkland Islands to get our Government here to legislature to have this dangerous product banned. My government is now meeting to discuss this issue and I am keenly awaiting the outcome. Robin Goodwin, Falkland Islands