My husband is a minister in our church and I didn't want to go to church at all or shopping for fear that I would run into someone or have to talk to them. I was paranoid.  I thought everyone was talking about me and was against me. I was planting tulip bulbs one fall day and thought they were coming to get me.  I thought I, "I won't be alive in the spring, so plant the bulbs in odd places so the kids and my husband will remember me."  Weird, huh?

I was afraid to drive. When I met someone on our rather rural narrow road, I would overcompensate and jerk the wheel.  Great fear came over me constantly until I finally just quit driving at all.

After two years of this, it came to me that it could be Splenda-related and I went off it cold-turkey. I experienced the WORST headache I had ever had.  It lasted five days. Nothing touched it. But, on the fifth day, I felt like I had walked out of a heavy fog. I could actually see better, think more clearly, had no self-hatred thoughts, no thoughts of wanting to die.  It was glorious!

This past May, I went away onm a quick vacation with my mom and sister.  When I returned, my husband didn't act like himself. He was irritible, mean-spirited, hateful, and didn't want to go to church--and he's the minister! I recognized the pattern and looked in the freezer. There it was--ice cream with a big ol' Splenda sign on it.  I threw it away and three days later his whole personality changed back to normal. This also just recently happened to a couple in our church. The man's wife secretly changed the Splenda in the sugar bowl back to regular sugar and he changed back to his normal personality after being mean and irritible for over three months since they started using Splenda.

This is a real problem for those of us sensitive to it. I think they should put warnings on the package so people can look for the symptoms if they are adversely affected by sucralose. Losing two years of my life was a terrible thing to happen.  Relationships have been permanently affected because of the depression I went through."

Thank you B.D. for sharing your story with our visitors.

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