Rich Murray: Metzler: daughter had classic aspartame toxicity 5.29.1 rmforall

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Rich Murray: Metzler: daughter had classic

aspartame toxicity 5.29.1 rmforall

Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 21:30:09 -0400

To: Rich Murray

Hi Rich:

I sent my daughter's story below. Could you forward it to

Scharfe?

I would like to share my daughter’s reaction to NutraSweet with you.

More than 15 years ago, when my daughter was in her early 20’s and

studying for a Master’s Degree, she noticed that she was experiencing

bizarre symptoms that were quite alarming.

This truly bright girl (whose college tuition was entirely funded by

scholarships and who won a Telluride Association Scholarship in

competition with more than one million students from the entire US)

realized that she was becoming very confused. She would go to a

grocery store and couldn’t remember why she was there.

She would be driving her car and couldn’t

remember how to get home. She had déjà vu experiences.

And she got much worse. In addition to her drastic personality

change and intellectual deterioration, she had epileptic-type seizures,

she began to lose her vision in both eyes,

she had severe headaches and trouble forming words, panic attacks,

a rapid heart rate, tremors, tingling and numbness of the extremities,

profound exhaustion and severe drowsiness, insomnia, suicidal thoughts

and numerous other problems including a very short temper,

gastrointestinal problems, and joint pains.

Her marriage ended and she lost her job.

She consulted a neurologist, and he told her that she had temporal lobe

epilepsy. He began treating her with medication, but the medication

didn’t work, because the doctor was wrong in his diagnosis

and he was treating her for a condition she didn’t have!

What she really had was ASPARTAME POISONING/TOXICITY!

I had heard about Dr. H. J. (Florida), so I contacted him and

he confirmed what I suspected -- that she was suffering from a reaction

to the artificial sweetener in diet soda. My daughter owes her life to

Dr. , because thanks to him, she stopped drinking diet soda,

and gradually, every one of her problems disappeared. Today,

she is a successful computer programmer and financial analyst.

To follow up, we took her to Boston for special studies on her brain,

and the doctors confirmed that it was the NutraSweet that had made her

so sick.

They said that she had been totally misdiagnosed by the neurologist and

that she did not have temporal lobe epilepsy at all.

These men were in the Clinical Research Center

at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

We also took her to a highly-respected ophthalmologist who

explained why her vision loss was due to aspartame.

She was fine for many years. A few years ago, she began

drinking diet soda again and had the same severe reaction. Luckily, we

realized what was happening to her and were able to convince her to

stop using NutraSweet. Why did she start again? It’s addictive!

Many other members of our family also have noticed a reaction to

NutraSweet.

I get severe classic migraines from diet soda. My son, who is a

physician, can’t see to drive if he drinks diet soda.

Another young man in the family, a lawyer, had double vision.

His ophthalmologist thought he had a brain tumor,

but all the tests were negative. He stopped drinking diet soda,

and within 3 months, the double vision was gone.

My sister-in-law acted like a " raving maniac " when she drank diet soda.

And, by talking to others in my community for 15 years, I have learned

that reactions to NutraSweet are quite common.

Unfortunately, most physicians are clueless when it comes to connecting

the many symptoms of NutraSweet poisoning/toxicity with the

consumption of what is supposedly a safe substance.

By approving NutraSweet, the FDA caused many problems for many innocent

people. Because my daughter was so disabled by diet soda, she lost at

least $50,000 in wages she would otherwise have earned.

And, the years of heartbreak that her father and I had to endure

can never be erased from our memories.

The FDA should be protecting Americans, but sadly,

Americans have to protect themselves.

Barbara Metzler

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Rich Murray, MA Room For All rmforall@...

1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505

M.I.T. (physics and history, BA, 1964), Boston U. Graduate School

(psychology, MA, 1967): As a concerned layman, I want to clarify the

aspartame toxicity debate.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/601

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