After 8 years of suffering with inflammed eyelids and a miserable tired feeling and no help from any doctors I finially read some articles about the poison of artificial sweeteners. I decided to give up using equal and splenda. After only 1 day, my red rimmed eyelids turned a healthy pink and my eyes felt a lot better. After 1 week I am still in the pink and that tired miserable feeling is gone. I would like to advise everyone to not use the artificial sweeteners. If you have a health problem it could well be from the sweeteners.