I have had many of the same symptoms as listed in the other letters including headaches, muscle weakness, short-term memory loss, and depression. But what really gave me a wakeup call was the Bells Palsy. Bell’s palsy is the unexplained paralysis of one side of the face. I started using Equal when it first started getting popular.
I started with the headaches, then the short term memory loss and depression but not wanting to link it to Equal. Then the muscle weakness started with tingling in the back of my head and I started thinking it may be linked to the use of the equal but still continued to use it. Then (about 5 years ago) I woke up one morning with no control of the left side of my face. The Doctors diagnosis was Bell Palsy. They said they don’t know what causes it. Since then I stopped using Equal and the headaches stopped, my short-term memory improved, the depression has stopped, the muscle weakness has stopped, the tingling is gone and the facial paralysis is 95% recovered. Unfortunately the facial paralysis will not 100% recover. After some time had passed since I had stopped using Equal I was curious if it really had something to do with the things I was experiencing so I started using it to see if it was all in my head. Within a few days I started having the headaches and tingling in the back of my head again. I know it’s not in my head now it definitely is the Equal.