I battled high blood pressure from 1987 until 2006. My blood pressure had become uncontrollable. I had memory lapses where I could not remember someone’s name. My joints were hurting and aching and my prostate was enlarged.
My doctor just kept increasing my medications and the symptoms kept getting worse. After experiencing dizziness and nose bleeds from excessively high blood pressure, I had to stop eating and only consume distilled water.
After several days, my blood pressure went down to 116/65. I started eating only one food at a time and checking my blood pressure at intervals afterward to see if my blood pressure went up. I did not experience a problem until I drank a diet drink with NutraSweet. My blood pressure soared to 185/100 and stayed high for hours. As a result, I took diet drinks off my consumables list.
Then I had a cup of coffee sweetened with Equal and my blood pressure soared again. So I switched to decaf coffee sweetened with Equal and had the same thing happen again. My blood pressure soared and stayed up for hours. After that, I knew that Equal sweetener, (Aspartame), was the problem. I drank decaf coffee sweetened with sugar for a solid week, and it had no effect on my blood pressure at all. I even went back to regular coffee sweetened with sugar and had only a moderate blood pressure increase, (131/80), that lasted for about an hour.
On top of that, I haven’t had a memory lapse since I stopped using Aspartame. My joints had been hurting me so bad that I could not sleep through the night. My joints have not ached since I stopped using Aspartame – that is not a coincidence! On top of that, my prostate symptoms subsided too. I do not have to take any medications at all since I eliminated Aspartame from my diet. I think I had several TIAs as a result of high blood pressure induced by Aspartame.
I wonder how many people have died of strokes or heart failure from high blood pressure brought on from using Aspartame?
It is not a coincidence that my high blood pressure and my other health problems started when I started using Equal, back in 1987, and ended when I stopped using it.