Hi All,
Sept of last year I quit using aspartame. I had been using up to 30 packets a 
day for 10 years or more. My symptoms were: depression, crying jags, raging, 
tinnitus, vertigo, leg pains which I thought were diabetic neuropathy, blood 
sugar totally out of control, headaches, equilibrium problems to the point of 
falling down several times a day, and severe muscle atrophy. I did this 
entirely on my own because all my "friends" and "professionals" said I was 
crazy. Well, I was crazy all right, but not the way they thought.
Now, ten months later, all symptoms are gone or 90% gone. I still have diabetes 
and the accompanying problems
but I`m totally not depressed, etc.
There, a first-hand account of a real person who had it, quit it, and got 
better!
Hugh