Vertigo, or "How My Spinning World Finally Stopped"
I recently read where a MLB baseball player went on the disabled list because of vertigo. For some reason I found this funny. I have since found out it's not funny, especially if it happens to you.
For the last few months, I have been experiencing chest pains, headaches, eye pain, itching, breathing difficulties, ringing in my ears, vision problems, and other things. My doctor even hospitalized me for extensive tests, including a cardiac catheterization. The good news was my heart was unchanged since my last 2 heart attacks, the bad news was they had no idea what the problem was.
Ten or 12 days ago, I went all dizzy. I couldn't walk, my head ached, I was sweaty, and my vision was blurred. I recognized these to be symptoms of vertigo, so off I went to my good 'ole buddy Google to find a cure, or at least to see if I really had vertigo. I indeed did display all the symptoms of vertigo, so I read further to learn the cause of this malady. As I scrolled down the list of causes, going past brain tumors and other scary possibilities, my eyes fell upon what I INSTANTLY knew to be the cause of my sickness.
I been a diabetic since 1990, and as all of you that are familiar with this disease, it requires an enormous amount of self-care to continue with a somewhat higher quality of life. You have to monitor your diet closely, maintain your blood sugar levels with medication and injections, and get as much exercise as possible. Therefore, I never used added sugar to anything, and always used a sugar substitute instead. I freely used these little packets in my coffee, cereal, and anything else I felt the need to sweeten up. I thought this is great stuff, a diabetics dream, you might say. It was in fact poisoning me.
Nutra-sweet, phenylalanine, whatever name it goes by, is commonly called aspartame. It is used in a long list of commercial products, including diet sodas, or anything low calorie or sugar free. When I read that one of it's MANY side effects was vertigo, I immediately stopped my use of this product. Within 48 hours, my vertigo symptoms mostly stopped, with the double vision lasting another day or so. My ears have stopped ringing, I have stopped itching, I breath a lot better, and most wonderful of all, my chest no longer hurts. That throbbing pain that I had endured and worried about for months had disappeared.
Now I know what you are thinking. I'm thinking the same thing, believe me. A few days isn't enough time to attribute my problems to aspartame. I found one medical website that said it takes 30-60 days to rid yourself of this poison, so time will tell. I do know I feel better right now then I have in years. Meanwhile, I have spent the last few days researching this poison, and I have found numerous case studies supporting the belief that this stuff is toxic.
I will be reporting back during my ongoing recovery period and maybe we will all be a little better educated on this topic. Thanks for reading.
For the last few months, I have been experiencing chest pains, headaches, eye pain, itching, breathing difficulties, ringing in my ears, vision problems, and other things. My doctor even hospitalized me for extensive tests, including a cardiac catheterization. The good news was my heart was unchanged since my last 2 heart attacks, the bad news was they had no idea what the problem was.
Ten or 12 days ago, I went all dizzy. I couldn't walk, my head ached, I was sweaty, and my vision was blurred. I recognized these to be symptoms of vertigo, so off I went to my good 'ole buddy Google to find a cure, or at least to see if I really had vertigo. I indeed did display all the symptoms of vertigo, so I read further to learn the cause of this malady. As I scrolled down the list of causes, going past brain tumors and other scary possibilities, my eyes fell upon what I INSTANTLY knew to be the cause of my sickness.
I been a diabetic since 1990, and as all of you that are familiar with this disease, it requires an enormous amount of self-care to continue with a somewhat higher quality of life. You have to monitor your diet closely, maintain your blood sugar levels with medication and injections, and get as much exercise as possible. Therefore, I never used added sugar to anything, and always used a sugar substitute instead. I freely used these little packets in my coffee, cereal, and anything else I felt the need to sweeten up. I thought this is great stuff, a diabetics dream, you might say. It was in fact poisoning me.
Nutra-sweet, phenylalanine, whatever name it goes by, is commonly called aspartame. It is used in a long list of commercial products, including diet sodas, or anything low calorie or sugar free. When I read that one of it's MANY side effects was vertigo, I immediately stopped my use of this product. Within 48 hours, my vertigo symptoms mostly stopped, with the double vision lasting another day or so. My ears have stopped ringing, I have stopped itching, I breath a lot better, and most wonderful of all, my chest no longer hurts. That throbbing pain that I had endured and worried about for months had disappeared.
Now I know what you are thinking. I'm thinking the same thing, believe me. A few days isn't enough time to attribute my problems to aspartame. I found one medical website that said it takes 30-60 days to rid yourself of this poison, so time will tell. I do know I feel better right now then I have in years. Meanwhile, I have spent the last few days researching this poison, and I have found numerous case studies supporting the belief that this stuff is toxic.
I will be reporting back during my ongoing recovery period and maybe we will all be a little better educated on this topic. Thanks for reading.
posted by 8ballsgone at 11:27 AM
3 Comments:
I suffer from Vertigo. My first episode, I couldn't get out of bed for two weeks. Another time I feel and almost broke my arm in the bathtub. It's terrible and completely stops our life when it happens. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy...well maybe a couple of them, lol.
As far as artificial sweeteners? I won't touch those with a ten foot pole. Never have, never will.
I do hope you never become a diabetic, Mel. Love you...
You should check out Truvia. Hear it rocks.
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