I’m a little too busy to write up my “60 days without Aspartame” experience fully right now, but I’ll do it soon. In summary, after getting & reading your info on Feb 14, I cut Aspartame out completely (I’d been taking it in coffee, diet drinks, etc. for years). The results were startling. Normally, in the past 60 days I’d have expected to suffer 2 or 3 severe, incapacitating migraine headaches, and 12 to 15 days with other low-grade, persistent headaches. (Each one could last 1-2 days, being generally unresponsive to analgesics. Over the years, I’d just got used to getting on with my life despite these annoying headaches.) In fact, I had ONE minor headache in the 60 days, due I’m sure, to a specific food I ate! Just ONE!
I haven’t had 2 months like this for about 17 years!
As a scientist (a former pharmaceutical chemist — yes, I SHOULD have known better, but I guess I was looking for headache causes in other directions!), I realize one has to consider ALL possible explanations for a phenomenon like this; but the difference here was so striking, and the timing coincided so perfectly, that I cannot attribute this relief to anything else in my lifestyle other than giving up Aspartame. I’m eating, exercising, worrying & working just as before. Your information has made a major change in my life.
Thanks SO MUCH!