Sir I am reading the postings on the internet about Aspartame with great interest and anger.
I had been drinking Diet Coke for the past 12 years. This was the only form of liquid I consumed, with the very odd glass of water or even less often a glass of milk.
The quantity of consumption varied between 2 and 5 litres a day. Every day for almost 12 years.
In March of 1995 I saw part of a TV program that was about Aspartame. The interviewer was talking to a representative from the company that makes Aspartame. The representative said that the company had received 6,000 written complaints about the product, everything from strokes to liver and kidney failure to joint problems. He sat there and said that their doctors and scientists could not confirm even one of the complaints. My understanding of the American ratio of actual complaints to written complaints is in the neighborhood of 5,000 to 1 and may be as high as 10,000 to 1. This would mean that between 30,000,000 and 60,000,000 million people were having problems with this product. I quit drinking Diet Coke immediately.
Problems that I had attributed to stress of running my own business included high blood pressure, gout, kidney stones, joint problems had been with me for several years. Other problems that were present, but masked included; burn out and depression, confusion in decision making, general lack of drive and loss of feeling in my hands. The withdrawal process was not easy, but I have been off Aspartame for approximately 10 months now and many of my problems are going away. I understand that it may take a long time to purge the body of the residual toxins, but it is happening.