I’m now 2½ weeks Aspartame free. I also cut out MSG (which, might I add, was a lot more difficult considering all of the products out there with MSG in them – no more Doritos or Stove Top Stuffing or Hidden Valley Ranch dressing or Campbell’s Tomato Soup for me). Considering how small the sacrifice was, I’m feeling remarkably better. I have more energy than I’ve had in ages, the fibromyalgia fog is starting to lift and I haven’t been as dizzy or lightheaded (which are all major improvements in my book).
It amazes me that something as seemingly inconsequential as drinking diet soda and consuming products laden with MSG might be responsible for the degree of my illness. Why don’t more rheumatologists suggest that their patients with FMS (fibromyalgia) cut out these obviously wicked substances? It would’ve saved me a lot of trouble and years of feeling subhuman if I hadn’t had to do all the research myself.