When Splenda came out, I was thrilled about the alternative because I was young enough to have read the reports about saccharin and aspartame and I stayed away from them. However, I was pretty chunky and, before I realized what I really needed to do to lose the extra pounds, out came Splenda.

I have been consuming this product since a year after my second child was born--that makes it close to 6 or 7 years that I have been consuming this poison. You have to remember that my only real health problem was being overweight.

In the past five years, I have developed severe allergies to almost anything you can think of including saline!  Yes, salt water. I have asthma. I started getting only five hours of sleep a night. I lost my sex drive. I was moody and developed depression. The doctors diagnosed me with adult ADD and the beginning stages of fibromyalgia.

It was this past October (2005) when I went to the hospital for blurred vision, heart palpitations, sweating, and was near passing out. It was the scariest thing in my life! The doctor said I had an anxiety attack.  

Over the next few weeks, I had several attacks.  Then, I had a CAT scan done on my brain for severe headaches.  They discovered an arachnoid cyst on my right frontal lobe the size of a nickel.

Now, maybe I should tell you that the only time I consumed Splenda was with my two cups of coffee every morning. That means I had about ten packets a day, every day, for at least five or six years. I thought it was the caffeine causing my problems, so I changed my eating habits.  I do not drink any more coffee or caffeinated drinks. I would ot drink any aspartame-sweetened sodas either.

My allergies have unfortunately remained the same. But, I do not have chronic headaches and my neck and shoulder pain are gone. The panic attacks went away. My sex drive returned. I started to drink decaf tea with Splenda.  Within a week, all of my symptoms returned.

I started to read more and more about Splenda and have talked to other people and they have the same symptoms. Especially women seem to have lost their sex drive. My test may not be in a lab, but this is my testimony. I will tell everyone how bad Splenda is. There are some die-hard fans out there, but when I had this sudden development of a cyst on my brain, a lot of people started taking Splenda out of their diets. I thought I would share my story.

Thanks."

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