Magnesium

[ParisUSM]

I've been taking magnesium glycinate for about 10 days now as I'd found I'd been getting headaches since stopping taking another brand of magnesium. Headaches have stopped and I just wanted to share that I slept for 7 hours straight last night - I have not done that for years so am so pleased. Maybe it's nothing to do with magnesium, and maybe it's a one off but wow, what a difference it makes to have slept properly!

I also have digestion problems due to hormonal imbalance and having to take ferrous fumarate and it has definitely helped there too.

The food which is high in magnesium are all ones my sister calls menopause food and are all ones I have been eating more of over the past few years.

www.smarterchange.co.uk/blog/could-magnesium-be-a-miracle-cure-for-your-menopause-symptoms

Just take care with the doses of magnesium. I take it too but not daily. The normal dose is around 300 mg I think.
There are dangers associated with getting too much, especially when there are problems with kindeys. Magnesium overdose can cause hypermagnesemia, meaning that there is more than the normal amount of magnesium in the blood. So its better to consult your doc.

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For example, it’s the first ingredient in some laxatives. While these medications may have a high amount of elemental magnesium, it normally isn’t dangerous. Because of the laxative effect, you don’t absorb all of the magnesium. Instead, it’s flushed from the body before it has a chance to have much impact. Magnesium is also present in some medications for acid, indigestion, or heartburn.

Learn more: 10 foods high in magnesium »

RISK FACTORS
Risk factors
Hypermagnesemia is rare because the kidneys work to get rid of excess magnesium. Overdose is most often seen in people with kidney failure after they take medications containing magnesium, such as laxatives or antacids.

It’s because of this risk that people with kidney disease are cautioned against taking magnesium supplements or medications that contain this mineral. The risks are also higher for people with heart disease and gastrointestinal disorders.

SYMPTOMS OF OVERDOSE
What happens during a magnesium overdose
According to the Office of Dietary Supplements, symptoms of magnesium overdose may include:

diarrhea
nausea and vomiting
lethargy
muscle weakness
irregular heartbeat
low blood pressure
urine retention
respiratory distress
cardiac arrest
A doctor can give intravenous (IV) calcium gluconate to help reverse the effects of excess magnesium. Dialysis may also be used to flush magnesium from the body.

TAKEAWAY
Takeaway
Overall, the risk of ever experiencing a magnesium overdose is extremely low for a typically healthy person. Still, it is possible to have too much in certain cases. For people with impaired kidney function, discuss the risks of magnesium-containing medications and supplements with your doctor to help ensure your safety.

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Yes, thanks. I take 200mg and have no kidney problems so no need to use up any of my GP's time. Just so pleased to have had a night's sleep :)

I agree, it helps with my sleep too! :)

I'd better not get too excited in case tonight's back to normality, so hard to tell as my hormones are now up and down from hour to hour! Just gives me a glimpse of hope that I might actually get to the end of this journey :)

If you can handle your meno without any hormones lucky you!
I know for sure that my body cannot produce any estrogen and cannot survive without it.
I have almost no fat and I cannot function without hrt. Everyone is different I guess and our bodies act in a individual way for sure!
My gyn said that I have a light hypoestrogenism, that means that my body couldn't produce much estrogen. Thats the reason for my infertility.

We're all different, women in my family suffer horribly during perimenopause and then are much better when the hormones stop surging. I'm confident I'll be the same. I feel so much better when I know that my estrogen levels are lower, when it is high I swear I can feel my fibroids growing (probably completely in my head, haha). For the first time in 4 years, I am having times when I feel ok and that just feels like a minor miracle.

Genetics play a huge role!
My mum had her meno at 47 and she was on hrt for many many years.
I think that is also an attitude in coping with meno physically and psychologically.
There is no an absolutely right or wrong, it depends on the individual, the risks factors we have, our psychology, the quality of life we like to have and how we perceive that quality individually.

Its not in your head, it happens! When estrogen is too high, it feeds cysts, fybroids etc.
For women with high estrogen maybe meno is a safe place with minor problems. For women with low estrogen meno is a daily struggle that can causes a lot of health problems later.
Thats why I think that every woman has to have an individual assessment because we are all different and we have different risk profile.

I know, there needs to be a different way of monitoring hormone levels - blood tests are useless when hormone levels are up and down like a yoyo. Hopefully in the future there will be more ways to deal with perimenopause and menopause. I'd really like to see alternatives to hysterectomy for women with fibroids - the NHS just give you the option of waiting for them to shrink, or a hysterecomy which is a bit drastic.

We've totally went off topic from magnesium, haha

Yeah cause we find a more interesting topic than magnesium!!! :)

Paris in my country hysterectomy isn't a common practice.
For fibroids they recommend just a hysteroscopy. Hysterectomy is allowed only if there is cancer.
When I ask my gyn if I can have a hysterectomy to reduce my risks taking hrt, he said NO WAY!!!
The same with mastectomy. You cannot have a mastectomy if you have just the gene and you have not cancer. It is not allowed.

Here it seems to me that that the NHS is quite blase about removing women's body parts. I read that by age 60 20% of women will have had a hysterectomy, and most are because of fibroids. My GP told me that my uterus was a 'pointless void' at my age, and was quite surprised that I wanted to try to avoid a hysterectomy if at all possible. If I can ride this out and they shrink that would be the best option for me.

That is not good! Hysterectomy is a very drastic measure and a very hard operation with a lot of consequences physically and psychologically. It is a kind of mutilation! It cannot used as a preventative measure for sure! Don't accept something like that!

They would do other procedures if I was younger and wanted children. They are pretty large and painful at this stage which is why I'm praying for an end to perimenopause.

I can understand that.
Its all about money, fertility and such things.
When I was trying to find a gyn for my early meno, the most of gyns showed interest only in case I wanted a pregnancy.
I wish things will get better for you! :)