Re: Oral magnesium (was: heart arrythmias)

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

Judith Wisdom wrote:

>I've never heard of magnesium taken orally or IM having any bad

>effect other than a laxative one, which tells you that you've reached

>the upper limit of what you can take

I just wanted to mention that people can often slowly work up to a higher

dose of oral magnesium. If you start with one pill, for example, because

taking two gives you diarrhea, then you can try taking 1 1/2 after a while,

etc. I have been doing that with success. I have no idea if oral magnesium

alone can help with heart arrhythmias, though.

Good luck everyone,

Corina

[Guest guest]

Corina wrote:

" I have no idea if oral magnesium alone can help with heart

arrhythmias. "

Hi Corina and all,

Oral magnesium definitely stops my heart arrhythmias, and if I'm out

of magnesium for a few days, the arrhythmias return. I've read that

it's

helpful to others also in this way. Sandy

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[Guest guest]

Hi,

Again, check on this with a cardiologist; but quite a few years ago

two well known cardiologists, unrelated in their work to ME/CFS,

found that magnesium chloride taken orally was helping their patients

with some cardiac symptoms. It was a husband and wife team whose

last name is Altura. Medline could help with that. Experientially

it helps arrythmias in me, but I don't know what kind of arrythmias

it helps and I don't think people should self-medicate when it comes

to the heart.

Judith

> >I've never heard of magnesium taken orally or IM having any bad

> >effect other than a laxative one, which tells you that you've

reached

> >the upper limit of what you can take

>

> I just wanted to mention that people can often slowly work up to a

higher

> dose of oral magnesium. If you start with one pill, for example,

because

> taking two gives you diarrhea, then you can try taking 1 1/2 after

a while,

> etc. I have been doing that with success. I have no idea if oral

magnesium

> alone can help with heart arrhythmias, though.

>

> Good luck everyone,

> Corina