Has anyone heard of your Magnesium level affecting your anxiety?
I met a woman a few weeks ago who shared her story with me, she had extreme anxiety to say the least. She was on medication for anxiety and depression. But she wasn't getting much better. She started researching and found out about how your level of magnesium can affect you. She started taking a magnesium pill with calcium in it. She is completely better and out doing things she never could. I was just wondering if anyone else has heard of this?
Living each day as they come... good and bad ones.
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Mag's good for the heart and can give you diarrhea with too much of it.Have to look up the neurological part of it,my have to do with electrical conduction in the brain ? thnx
Found this on a health web site --Deficiency in magnesium can cause significant calcium loss, heart spasms, irregular heartbeat, nervousness, confusion, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, muscle contractions and spasms, fatigue, and feelings of weakness, both in general and in the muscles.
Found this on a health web site --Deficiency in magnesium can cause significant calcium loss, heart spasms, irregular heartbeat, nervousness, confusion, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, muscle contractions and spasms, fatigue, and feelings of weakness, both in general and in the muscles.
I have a friend that takes a high dose of magnesium for her asthma attacks and another friend uses a high dose of magnesium for her migraines but I haven't heard anything on the connection with anxiety and depression. Worth looking into. I take 315mg of mag a day with my 1200mg of calcium supplements.
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Definitely. I take a liquid cal and mag (they actually should be taken together) and I take it at night. Most people are actually deficient in magnesium because of all the bottled water we drink-I recently read (don't want to name the organization, I don't want to seem like I am promoting it)where so many people are deficient in Vit. D, Calcium and Magnesium to name a few. You would be surprised at how being deficient in certain vit. and amino acids can contribute to anxiety and depression. On top of that, some of the medicines we take deplete us of even more vitamins and cause weight gain and depression. It can be very confusing to say the least!
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I have been waiting to say "anything" but now that this subject has been bought up.
I have had very high anxiety for about 20 years
and in nov of 2007 I started having a very high pluse rate at all times and I was on anxiety meds so I was told by a homeapath to take Magnesium about 400mg a day I also take omega-3
with vitamin D in it I take the Iceland brand
I also was told to take a muilt-vitamin B complex. NOT a WAL-MART brand but from a health food store, well I am off all meds, I do take a 1/2 of .25xanax when needed but I've only taken 2 halfs in 3 months, one because my Grandma just passed away last week and one because one day my kids just got the best of me. I was so afaid I would not ever be free of the nights and long long days of the anxiety and being afaid of leaving my house. But for me the vit. and herbs have been a god sent.I really hope this will help someone else.
God Bless
I have had very high anxiety for about 20 years
and in nov of 2007 I started having a very high pluse rate at all times and I was on anxiety meds so I was told by a homeapath to take Magnesium about 400mg a day I also take omega-3
with vitamin D in it I take the Iceland brand
I also was told to take a muilt-vitamin B complex. NOT a WAL-MART brand but from a health food store, well I am off all meds, I do take a 1/2 of .25xanax when needed but I've only taken 2 halfs in 3 months, one because my Grandma just passed away last week and one because one day my kids just got the best of me. I was so afaid I would not ever be free of the nights and long long days of the anxiety and being afaid of leaving my house. But for me the vit. and herbs have been a god sent.I really hope this will help someone else.
God Bless
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What a great topic. I, too, was having much worse anxiety several years ago than I am having now. I started taking a liquid calcium/magnesium combo at night and a lot of my sypmtoms subsided.
I was having a lot of heart palpitations, sweating, shaking. I think, for me, having my kids so close together really wiped me out so I'm not surprised if I did end up deficient in a vitamin or 2.
I would talk to someone at a health food store because, when it comes to calcium/magnesium, how it's absorbed is very important and sometimes your average pills don't get absorbed by your body as well.
Sometimes I get lazy and don't take it and if I go for too long I can tell a big difference. When I'm taking it regularly, I sleep so sound and rarely have middle of the night panic attacks.
Someone mentioned to me that magnesium actually acts as a natural muscle relaxer while you're sleeping. ???? I don't know, but it definitely helped me.
I was having a lot of heart palpitations, sweating, shaking. I think, for me, having my kids so close together really wiped me out so I'm not surprised if I did end up deficient in a vitamin or 2.
I would talk to someone at a health food store because, when it comes to calcium/magnesium, how it's absorbed is very important and sometimes your average pills don't get absorbed by your body as well.
Sometimes I get lazy and don't take it and if I go for too long I can tell a big difference. When I'm taking it regularly, I sleep so sound and rarely have middle of the night panic attacks.
Someone mentioned to me that magnesium actually acts as a natural muscle relaxer while you're sleeping. ???? I don't know, but it definitely helped me.
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chris,
I was on Paxil a total of 18 months-the first time was like eight months and my doctor (believe it or not) told me to just stop taking it (I was on 10mg). Well, a few weeks later my anxiety came back real bad. I didn't have the program, didn't know about this website so I had no idea that could happen from quitting my med. So, I reluctantly went back on and stayed on for like a year. I got the program and I just felt it was time to get off of my medication but I knew my doctor didn't see a need to taper! So I called up many pharmicists and tapered on my own. No, I am not recommending people do that but like I said, my doctor was of no help. I should say that I've used ativan in the beginning both times of starting Paxil for like 4 weeks.
To answer your question of if I thought I could ever get off meds, well, that thought was one of my scary thoughts really. what happened was when I started the program I was actually taking my antidepressant, wanted to be off of it but not quite there b/c I was still anxious (I was caught in a vicious cycle of thinking I had several illnesses and the doctors not finding it out....) then I started with the nervous stomach and not eating, losing weight at a very fast rate and then of course, not sleeping. So, the medicine helped to put a brake on all that so I could CONCENTRATE on the program. Within a few weeks, 12 to be exact I felt confident enough to say, forget all this, I can soothe and calm myself down. It was so scary because I was really starting to believe I couldn't live no more w/out being on something. That in itself bothered me and the weight gain the med put on me bothered me too (not to mention the feeling of not wanting to ever have sex (sorry, had to put that in there).
Sorry for such a long post, its just a very hard thing to explain b/c I really feel w/out the meds I couldn't be at the med-free place that I am today. This past March 23rd I looked at my husband and said "It's been 1 year since I got and did the program" and then my next sentence I said "Memorial Day Wknd will be one year I started getting off my medicine".
It all could be done, but it's not easy, sometimes scary and never perfect. Just like the program teaches us.
I was on Paxil a total of 18 months-the first time was like eight months and my doctor (believe it or not) told me to just stop taking it (I was on 10mg). Well, a few weeks later my anxiety came back real bad. I didn't have the program, didn't know about this website so I had no idea that could happen from quitting my med. So, I reluctantly went back on and stayed on for like a year. I got the program and I just felt it was time to get off of my medication but I knew my doctor didn't see a need to taper! So I called up many pharmicists and tapered on my own. No, I am not recommending people do that but like I said, my doctor was of no help. I should say that I've used ativan in the beginning both times of starting Paxil for like 4 weeks.
To answer your question of if I thought I could ever get off meds, well, that thought was one of my scary thoughts really. what happened was when I started the program I was actually taking my antidepressant, wanted to be off of it but not quite there b/c I was still anxious (I was caught in a vicious cycle of thinking I had several illnesses and the doctors not finding it out....) then I started with the nervous stomach and not eating, losing weight at a very fast rate and then of course, not sleeping. So, the medicine helped to put a brake on all that so I could CONCENTRATE on the program. Within a few weeks, 12 to be exact I felt confident enough to say, forget all this, I can soothe and calm myself down. It was so scary because I was really starting to believe I couldn't live no more w/out being on something. That in itself bothered me and the weight gain the med put on me bothered me too (not to mention the feeling of not wanting to ever have sex (sorry, had to put that in there).
Sorry for such a long post, its just a very hard thing to explain b/c I really feel w/out the meds I couldn't be at the med-free place that I am today. This past March 23rd I looked at my husband and said "It's been 1 year since I got and did the program" and then my next sentence I said "Memorial Day Wknd will be one year I started getting off my medicine".
It all could be done, but it's not easy, sometimes scary and never perfect. Just like the program teaches us.
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karmerri thank u so much yes i have been on 6 mil of valium for 10 years and im am scared to seee how id be with out anything as well but thats my goal... it would be so nice not to be so dependent on something well im on session 3 i guess we;ll see how it goes hopefull my fears will subside thanks again for you response