From: Jaffe, Lyle D
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:12 AM
To: Dockets, FDA
Subject: FW: testing on aspartame - fibromyalgia



-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Martini [mailto:Bettym19@mindspring.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 2:03 AM
To: DAP
Subject: Re: testing on aspartame - fibromyalgia


Dear Dennis,

First of all, to make any progress you're going to have to get off the 
toxin.  Secondly, I would get on the support groups which you can click on 
to from www.dorway.com

Dr. H. J. Roberts has declared Aspartame Disease to be a global plague and 
published a medical text on it, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, 
www.aspartameispoison.com  or www.sunsentpress.com  or 1 800 814 - 
9800.  There is a chapter on fibromyalgia and joint pain.  Actually 
fibromyalgia is a diagnostic wastebucket.  Physicians think aspartame is an 
additive so they don't correlate the joint pain it causes with the 
problems.  They have been lied to by the manufacturer, the FDA and the 
professional organizations that are funded by industry.  In this medical 
text is a chapter on detoxificaiton.  You should flood the body with 
distilled water but out of a glass container not plastic.  Aspartame is a 
chemical hypersensitization so anyone who has used it now is chemically 
sensitive.  There are other suggestions in this chapter.  Also, print out 
on www.dorway.com  Dr. Roberts position paper, aspartame and fibromyalgia 
and arthritis, and give it to your physician.  Tell him about the medical 
text and Dr. Blaylock's book Excitotoxins: The TAste That Kills.  I'll send 
you the class action notice which you can give to him so he will also know 
how to get them.

Physicians can't even diagnose themselves much less patients.  Dr. Richard 
Sabates is a physician who was also drinking diet drinks like you and had 
the same symptoms.  He went from physician to physician and I think ended 
up at the Mayo Clinic.  No one could help him, then he happened to read the 
Townsend Letter for Doctors where there was Dr. Roberts article on 
aspartame and joint pain.  He got off of his diet drinks and the pain went 
away.  He then wrote a book and his first chapter was titled My Aspartame 
Nightmare, basically thanking Dr. Roberts for saving his life.  He gave us 
permission to put that chapter on web so you can read it.

The problem is aspartame hardens the synovial fluids.  And orthopedic 
surgeons have told me that in those who have used aspartame they find 
necrosis under the joint.

As to testing, in the medical text it does tell you that you can do a blood 
phenylalanine and blood aspartic acid test and they should be high in 
aspartame victims.  Also, we find in people who have used it for years 
usually the liver enzymes are off the chart.  The Trocho Study done in l998 
shows that the formaldehyde converted from the wood alcohol in aspartame 
accumulates in the cells and damages DNA.  Most of the toxicity is in the 
liver but there is substantial toxicity in the kidneys, adipose tissue (fat 
cells), brain and retina.

There has recently been a study on fibromyalgia at the University of 
Florida, several months ago.  It showed that if you eliminate excitotoxins 
- aspartame and MSG, the symptoms of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue 
disappear.  So its all documented.  A good web site on MSG is 
www.truthinlabeling.org

Lives have been shattered all over the planet because a deadly chemical 
poison for marketed for human consumption.  You can write for recall of 
aspartame now by emailing fdadockets@oc.fda.gov with the FDA docket number 
in the subject line - 02P-1317, then in the text your case.   We have until 
January 12th.

All my best,
Betty           At 09:28 PM 10/21/2002 -0500, DAP wrote:
>Is there testing that can be done to find out about toxicity levels in the 
>bloodstream?  If so what test should be done?
>In 1989 I lost a business as an electrical contractor making 
>$1200-1800/week.  After many years of being on welfare I retrained & 
>started a new career.  Two years ago I lost another job where I was making 
>$800.00/week because of fibromyalgia related symptoms.  All the Family 
>M.D's, Neurologist, rhematologist, and physical therapists all agree that 
>I have advance Fibromyalgia.
>I am, and have been, a very heavy drinker of sodas, especially diet 
>sodas.  After reading your site I am almost convinced that if there is a 
>test of this poisoning I will show up as being positive.  All I want to do 
>is be a normal father & husband & work for a living.  I'm only 48 years 
>old and can still make some type of a comeback in life.
>Please find out the testing & in the mean time I will attempt to consume 
>little to none of these products.
>
>Dennis