transdermal Mg..... re a positive controlled trial of IM Mag

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ABSTRACT: I tried transdermal Mg, probably too much, had positive

initial effects, and messed up my gut again.

Ummm NVLLIVS IN VERBA, amigos.........

My first source on transdermal absorbtion of Mg was Norman Shealy, via

Eby. Well, look up Shealy on the web - frankly I find him to be ultra

cheesey.

But guess what, here is a (free) respectable-looking unpublished paper

on transdermal Mg, from Birgmingham UK - it is on the website of some

" Epsom Salt Council " but I'm not sure if they were involved in

producing it:

http://www.epsomsaltcouncil.org/articles/Report_on_Absorption_of_magnesium_sulfa\

te.pdf

Anyway, that paper verifies absorbtion thru the skin, including in a

bath with a lot of Mg salts dissolved in.

So I got some epsom salts (which is sorta-nearly-pure Mg sulfate).

First I was fooling around, repeatedly, with dissolving it into some

lotion and applying it to the skin. Probably did way too much. I don't

know for sure just how safe this is. I started to get some moderate

effects. (I generally seem not to experience placebo effects.)

Then, late that night, I took a bath with about a kg of epsom salt in

it (roughly). My bath was probably hotter (at first) than the ones the

people in the paper used. It was also about 3 hours long, whereas

theirs was 12 minutes. So I probably absorbed a lot more than the

people who took the baths in the paper.

Then I started to feel really good.

Then my sleep was really weird and wired-ish, with some of the bizarre

semi-awake states I used to experience earlier in my illness. But

whatever.

Then when I woke up I resoaked in the bath again. Pretty soon I felt

GREAT for 6 hours or so. Then I crashed like a meteor, and felt like

absolute slime for maybe 18 hours.

It would seem that I probably somehow triggered a manic storm that

rapidly depleted/downregulated some neurotransmitter, receptor,

transducer (or whatever) involved in feelings of energy and well-being.

Then, my gut went bad for the next several days. (Anti-diarrhea and

anti-gas meds were helpful, in case this ever happens to someone).

Whoops, I thought you weren't supposed to mess up your gut if you took

it parenterally. Well, I believe that you can. I probably just took

too much. I never had any bad enteric effects from getting Meyer's

Cocktail IVs in the old days, but they seem not to contain all that

much Mg. One site gives the Mg content as:

Magnesium.........1-4 cc either 20% chloride or 50% sulfate

I believe that is a wt/vol percentage which would mean 0.5 to 2 g of

Mg sulfate - which is itself only partly Mg (the %Mg in MgSO4 would

depend on whether you have anhydrous MgSO4 or instead have the

heptahydrate form which epsom salts comprise).

So, it may be that got the bad gut from just taking entirely too much.

Obviously, the short euphoria followed by the long crash is not

something that is useful. However, I don't think that is necessarily

the only effect - I think I may also be experiencing a second, more

sustained positive effect which is much more mild. In the future I

will of course be titrating up from much lower doses.