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AIBU to ask for your magnesium deficiency stories?

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Aberforthsgoat · 10/02/2019 11:53

Posting here mainly for traffic

Recently I’ve had twitchy muscles, feeling shattered, tense muscles, feeling constantly on edge, lip and eye twitches and anxiety.
I do get anxiety and know these can be caused by that, but I wondered if it could also be a magnesium deficiency as it seems to fit and has sort of suddenly come on.

Just wondered if anyone else has had it and what symptoms they experienced? I have a separate problem with my vision which is being looked into (pardon the pun!) but that is based around a muscle contraction too which it seems that magnesium can cause.

The only thing is I eat a fair amount of broccoli and cabbage and dark chocolate so am wondering if it would even be possible.

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Bornin1969 · 10/02/2019 19:10

Does anyone use magnesium for pmt ? (sorry to highjack!)

RichPetunia · 10/02/2019 19:14

Posted by mistake. In response to previous request - I am taking 150mg magnesium and b vits with b12 (3 tabs) - instructions on bottle say between 1 and 6 a day. I've started on 3 and it seems to be working out fine. Also had been and will continue to take a multivitamin and mineral. I'm very grateful that my frame of mind has improved and is now in a better place.

Original poster
Aberforthsgoat · 10/02/2019 19:15

Thanks @richpetunia does your multivitamin also contain magnesium?

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MiniCooperLover · 10/02/2019 19:18

Where do people get their magnesium from?

FennyBridges · 10/02/2019 19:19

Maybe you're anaemic? Restless legs and twitches happen to me when I am. In fact, I find them really painful and I can twitch (I even Googled motor neurone disease as I was so concerned about my twitches.)

Basically I've had a ton of iron since September and I haven't twitched anywhere for an awfully long time. Definitely three months.

I think you should get a blood test too.

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Aberforthsgoat · 10/02/2019 19:20

@fennybridges hadn’t considered that
I nearly frightened the life out of myself when I googled my symptoms and it helpfully popped up with ms, brain tumours and nervous system diseases
Considering I’m prone to anxiety anyway I think I need to stay away from google.
Will speak to the doctor

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FennyBridges · 10/02/2019 19:24

Yes sorry I shouldn't really have mentioned the disease I did. I really meant that it was so worrying to me, to Google that, yet my twitches went away.

I'm regularly anaemic. But until this time I never had twitches. I am completely and totally healthy now, only borderline anaemic too.

Anyway, it's a simple blood test so I thought I'd share my experience. If you've had two pregnancy losses perhaps you do need a bit of iron?

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MissTook · 10/02/2019 19:25

Magnesium is better absorbed through the skin, op. Either Epsom salts in the bath or a foot spa or the oil spray.

Beccatheboo · 10/02/2019 19:25

I used to get twitchy eyes and was seriously lacking in energy but not since taking 250mg a day of Magnesium (tablets bought from H&B). Did try the spray but it stang a little. My achy joints have also improved and I’m more regular!

MissTook · 10/02/2019 19:27

Oh and don't overdo it or you'll get the runs. A couple of quick squirts [excuse the pun] of magnesium oil on the skin should be enough.

purpleelk · 10/02/2019 19:29

Epsom salt for bath IS Food grade magnesium. Cheap as chips compared to tablets and perfectly safe. There’s only one grade for human consumption (rest are agricultural grades), and since it's absorbed through skin, it’s human grade. There’s an Epsom salt org that has more facts if you google it.

Only thing is that it tastes horrible. Take a few flakes in a tall water with lemon juice and you won’t taste it.

Higher concentration (1 tablespoon to 1 litre) are used as a natural “enema” flush and will send you for the toilet in 30-45 minutes.

purpleelk · 10/02/2019 19:30

For human consumption grade not human grade Grin

SpringForEver · 10/02/2019 19:32

Aren't you meant to take it with Vit D?

Thanks MeetJoe, I have had the D spray by Better You, but after reading the article I posted above I wasn't sure what to get, so many different types of magnesium and the most readily available seems to be the wrong one.

mytieisascarf · 10/02/2019 19:41

Teitches, spasms, fatigue and pain here too. Turned out to be VERY low iron. Precribed almost 1000mg of Iron per day. Magnesium spray also helped night spasms. I buy Jan de Vrie online.

BayandBlonde · 10/02/2019 19:41

A bit off topic but still kind of relevant.

Horses - it's quite common to have a lack of magnesium in the soil, which means the grass also lacks it.

Lack of magnesium can make horses quite highly strung, twitchy and just generally arses to be around. Mine is one of these

I give her 5 grams of magnesium daily and it totally transforms her into a nice chilled, relaxed person Smile

It sounds like lack of magnesium in the human has the same effect

mytieisascarf · 10/02/2019 19:42

Twitches....

SeaToSki · 10/02/2019 19:43

I was recommended magnesium supplements by my cardiologist as I was having some irregular heart beats and runs of palpitations. It was amazing. It also sorted out my really achy leg muscles and I slept so much better. Its really easy to have a magnesium defficiency even woth a good diet. I take 400 mg every day at bed time

MynameisJune · 10/02/2019 19:47

I took magnesium (oxide I think) for severe constipation. It helped my pmt, anxiety and I’m convinced that after 6 years of TTC with no bfp it also helped regulate my cycles for us to conceive our first daughter.

Snog · 10/02/2019 19:48

I take slow mag,2 tablets a day, with vit D and berocca

Aroundtheworldandback · 10/02/2019 20:02

I take liquid magnesium just before bed and now sleep like a baby.

fruitandbarley · 10/02/2019 20:16

If you haven't had it checked already please ask the doctor to check your thyroid, a full thyroid panel, as if your levels are off can cause magnesium deficiency and could also be the reason for the miscarriages, I know this from experience, but had to do a lot of research myself as doctors were a bit useless. First step is to ask them to check it though. After two losses myself I am on medication and have my levels under control and am 20 weeks pregnant.

Snog · 10/02/2019 21:36

The Mariella Frostrup series on menopause is good to watch if you haven't already OP.

mooncuplanding · 10/02/2019 21:40

I take 350mg of mg citrate and 1 x mg threonate 144mg every other night

The threonate is literally like a sleeping pill but it isn't so effective on my hormones so just do that one every other night

From what I have read you shouldn't supplement more than 500mg per day

mooncuplanding · 10/02/2019 21:45

Horses - it's quite common to have a lack of magnesium in the soil, which means the grass also lacks it.

Thats really interesting about the horses and their soil. I was thinking it was just a problem with the plants we eat now lacking magnesium due to the soil but clearly it will be going through the whole food chain and the meat we eat (not horses!) will also be lacking in magnesium.

Our farming methods have a lot to answer for !

mooncuplanding · 10/02/2019 21:49

Bit of science behind our soil issues and magnesium