I was a person that used Aspartame regularly in everything as a sugar substitute. Coffee, soda, cakes, pies, even gum. Over time I became very, very ill. I didn’t know what was wrong with me; doctors didn’t know what was wrong with me. I was slowly increasingly getting sicker. I had extreme joint pain I could barely walk from the parking lot at work to my desk. I’d have to leave 30 minutes earlier than usual just to allow the time to walk in. Elderly people at the stores would pass me.
I was slowly deteriorating. Some doctors thought it was fibromyalgia in which there is no cure. I had no energy, I was always feeling nausea I am only 37 years old and I knew there was something wrong but I didn’t know what. I began feeling very sick instantly after drinking or eating Aspartame. I decide to stop using Aspartame because that was the only change that I had made previous the onset of my condition. I began to drink detox tea and went back to using sugar. I immediately felt better and as time passed the joint pain has stopped. Still to this day if I accidental consume an Aspartame product I feel the effects immediately after ingesting the substance, so quick that I don’t even have time to finish the product before I discard it because of feeling ill.
I was feeding these products to my at the time small children and I’m so devastated to know that I may have hurt them. I thought that I was doing something healthy for them. I didn’t know that this substance was unsafe. I believed that if it was being used in a product that it was tested and approved to be safe. Our lives were definitely touched by Aspartame and it will affect our household always in the way we eat, drink and buy products. We will always use sugar from now on. I hope that my feedback is not overlooked and that action would be taken to remove Aspartame from the market. I may have very well continued with the consumption of this product without second guessing my diet decisions.