OMG...I totally agree. I too was diagnosed with MS. I had lesions in my brain, was having absence seizures, pain, a small stroke, abdominal pain that put me in the hospital for days, then they disappeared and the dr's thought I was "cured" even though they didn't do anything but tests, finding nothing. I had to have brain scans, bloodwork, etc. When I went to research MS in my panicked state, I found a reference that said to cross reference aspartame poisoning. So I did...only to find I had about 12 of the symptoms that were listed. I stopped drinking diet soda and comsuming aspartame that day and have since been truly "cured" of all those issues. I tell people who have health issues and consume diet soda to stop, especially if they drink several a day. Once aspartame gets into your body it warms to 98 degrees and changes it's composition. I won't be drinking/eating it again.