Thank you, SongsInMyHead, for your encouragement and wishes of good luck.

Non, you are absolutely right about these monster panic attacks feeling very much like one is on death's door.

Day Three of my experiment and it seems that the main culprit in the lead was the artificial sweetners (Aspertame and Splenda specifically). Since I have cut them completely out of my diet, I have had no further issues with monster panic attacks in the last three days... and that's saying a lot.

Went to see my therapist today and was told that my pdoc will be adjusting my Wellbutrin from XL (150 mgs) to SR (100 mgs) as he believes this also might be a contributing factor to the monster panic attacks. I begin this new dosage tomorrow, so we shall see how this goes.

That's about it for the moment. Bottom line from what I've learned thus far is folks with anxiety and panic disorders should avoid artificial sweetners, especially Aspertame, or you may find your attacks more frequent and intense than usual.