In looking back over the past 5 to 7 years many problem are now clear and they affected my business and my life. These I do attribute to Aspartame.
Difficulties with decision making. This first surfaced when I went to get a new car in 1992. I had problems making a decision as to which car to buy and to lease or purchase. This was totally out of character, I have had many years running a business and mathematics was my major at university. I finally took a car because the salesman was nice. Great way to do business.
The changes were taking place very slowly and my wife just put them down to the stress of doing business. This confusion continued and came to a head when we moved our business from Cambridge to a small rural community of Holstein. During the move I could not decide what to even put on the truck and threw out or gave away items because they were too heavy or I did not know what to do with them. The items included equipment, storage pieces, shelving etc., not scrap or garbage. Again, not in keeping with my character.
I lost the feeling in most of my right hand in December of 94. I went to my chiropractor he said it was nerve damage come and see me 3 time a week. It should only take 6 months or so for the nerves to heal once the sublimation was corrected. Several months later the feeling was going in my left hand as well. 4 months after my withdrawal, a new chiropractor (because of location) and 1 visit per week, feeling returned and have been OK since.
Personality changes over the past 10 years. When I got married I was a very mellow person with a good sense of humor. I have been told that I am much less tolerant than I was and my sense of humor is just not as good as it was. I thing that I have noticed is for the past number of years my emotional state was blah, nothing much mattered and trying to get excited about anything just did not happen. From purchasing an old school to having dinner at a nice restaurant was just Ok, nothing special. Even feeling of
Frustration didn’t seem to happen. When things were not going well with renovations, or with business I could not get myself in gear to do anything about it. In the last week I had strong feeling of frustrations at my lack of progress in renovating our old school house. This is the first time in memory I have had these feelings.
One thing that I had always prided myself on was my memory. I could remember people that I had met only once many years ago. School time friends that I had not seen for 10 or 15 years, I was able to remember their names and even their grades. When I had an antique store, we bought most of our items at auctions. Driving through the country I could remember location where we had been at an auction and even most of the items we bought their and who the auctioneer was. Not bad since I went to 4 or 5 auction a week for 5 years. Not so now. It is getting better, but it still isn’t as good. I still have difficulties with people I meet. Some time I need to be introduced to the same person 3 or 4 times before I get the name right. At one time in my printing business I could recall every job, now I need to look up the docket to see if we even did it before.
My eye sight has changed dramatically over the past 8 years with new glasses coming about every 18 months. I thought it was due to working on the computer so much. I just went in for another examine because things were getting out of focus at times. No new glasses needed this time. My tear fluid isn’t keeping the front if the eyes moist enough and they are drying out causing a change in the focus. First time that I have not needed new glasses in many visits. I hope that this means the damage to my eyes has stopped.
Growths on my forehead. I was becoming quite warty, as my wife said. I had little white bumps like cysts forming on my forehead about 20 of them over the years. Over the past few months, remember it has now been 16 months since I stopped poisoning myself, these bumps have been reducing in size and some have disappeared. My current chiropractor says that it may be because the liver has become detoxified enough to start doing it’s job again. Shortness of breath due to position. I noticed this in the material you sent yesterday and am not sure if I have this problem or if what I have is the same. As I said I am over weight, but still reasonable active. I do not have shortness of breath walking, on the flat or upstairs, nor do I have shortness of breath working hard, but when I bend down I cannot breath. I thought it was my belly pushing against my diaphragm and not allowing my lungs to expand. Either way I wish it would go away.
For over a year now I have been being treated for muscle spasms in my right hip. The pain is quite awful and does keep me from doing many of the things I want to do. I do not know if Aspartame is retained in the body for a long time or if the effects it has on the muscles can last this long, but if it can and does, then a tactical nuclear devise should be sent to Searle and the FDA for Christmas.
My daughter, adopted, has Borderline Personality Disorder. She would drop off the edge every once in a while and go into almost a comatose state. We tried to find the trigger and now believe it was Aspartame. Since we have explained to her about the possible connection she no longer drinks diet pop and her bad times have almost disappeared. Again I cannot say that Aspartame was or is the only chemical that caused these problems but it sure is a strong suspect.
I am not sure that I have included everything, but this is enough. My health is getting better every day and I can notice changes for the better myself. I know that I have a long road to cover yet and I am sure that there will be disappointments when I discover damage that will not get better and will affect my life style and possibly life span. Having people like you out there to talk to sure helps.
In Canada diet drinks do not carry any warnings period. Also the Bovine growth hormone has not been approved for use here, thank God.
PS: I am making copies of the information and giving them to my member of parliament.