Re: what was that magnesium everyone takes?

[Guest guest]

I'd be interested to know if you experience any skin senstivity or

drying after applying epsom salts directly to your skin (damp skin I

imagine). I've taken epsom salts baths, and when I stand up after

soaking, I have to get it OFF my skin IMMEDIATELY, it makes my skin feel

so itchy.

sol

Cherie wrote:

> Was it the powder to mix with water? I think it was called Natural Calm or

> something like that. I tried it, and was up half the night going to the

> bathroom. So now I'm just trying epsom salt after my shower.

>

>

[Guest guest]

If taking magnesium by mouth bothers your digestive tract and epsom

salts makes you itchy, you might want to try Magnesium Oil (it's not

really an oil, more like a brine). Google it and you'll find info on

it. It's an easy way to get magnesium in your system without the

accompanying " runs " . Not cheap however! Amy

> > Was it the powder to mix with water? I think it was called Natural

Calm or

> > something like that. I tried it, and was up half the night going

to the

> > bathroom. So now I'm just trying epsom salt after my shower.

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

jasrich wrote:

> I've been eating almonds and almond butter too and I would love to not

> take the mag citrate that I have been taking in the evenings b/c I

> think that it upsets my stomach. It definitely loosens things up for

> the next day which I don't mind, but my GI tends to be worse at night

> and that is just one more insult that it doesn't need. So are the

> almonds that strong in mag that I can get away with it? My mag lab

> (RBC) wasn't high but it was right in the middle of the range. When I

> was injecting the mag that my new doc gave me (they gave me this BMAG

> pack that is a cocktail of .6ml of mag, .2ml of B-12 and .2ml of

> B-Complex) I felt like crap after taking it and my local doc confirmed

> that people usually do. New doc never warned me of that of course.

>

Nobody excetp othr people it has happened to has ever said to me that

taking supplemental magnesium can make a person feel worse.

If you need extra mag, you might try magnesium orotate, magnesium

malate, or magnesium glycinate.Dr. A. Stoff (Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome) says magnesium orotate is the best form to take. I now have

magnesium glycinate and magnesium orotate to try. At which point I will

have taken every form except aspartate. At which point if both the new

forms also make me feel worse, I will give up on magnesium. The only

reason I want to try these forms is because I want to be perfectly sure

it is the magnesium itself that makes me feel worse, and not the form

the magnesium is in. Heck, I might even try the epsom salts in the

shower, I guess I'm just bowing to the pressure from all sides that

almost everyone needs extra magnesium, and want to be able to say I have

given it a truly exhaustive try.

sol

[Guest guest]

I'm in the same boat . We must have similar digestive tracts. :-) I

tried just a bit of the Natural Calm one night and was up half the night

going to the bathroom. No more oral magnesium for me!

Rie

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy

enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright

> I got the NSI brand mag/citrate instead of the Natural Calm and I use

> as little as 1tsp mixed in water and still get an upset stomach from

> it. What time of day do you take it? One of my problems is that

> evening around dinner and until I go to bed is the worst time of day

> for me for GI upset - I think partially b/c of putting HC down there

> all day and then the prednisolone at 7PM - so adding anything else

> that is likely to cause stomach upset will - like mag. But then I

> read that the best time to take it is at night. I guess that if I'm

> deficient and I can tolerate it better earlier in the day I should

> just take it then for the supplementation and forget about what good

> it is supposed to be able to do for general calm and relaxation night.

> 2tsps upset my wife's stomach too.

>

>

>

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7:08 PM

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Mark,

Of course not! I'm delighted to have some cross-pollination going

on...something I REALLY believe in. I look forward to hearing from you there.

At 07:59 PM 2/18/2008, you wrote:

> I hope you don't mind I asked to sign up too. I've been reading

>about Oxalate's since you mentioned it here and I find it very

>interesting to say the least.

>

>Mark

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[Guest guest]

I wouldn't wish that on anyone Cherie, I'm sorry It doesn't give

me the runs, even at 2tsps, it just makes the usual evening stomach

rumble even worse. I just don't need anything else at night that

upsets my GI.

>

> I'm in the same boat . We must have similar digestive tracts. :-) I

> tried just a bit of the Natural Calm one night and was up half the night

> going to the bathroom. No more oral magnesium for me!

>

> Rie

[Guest guest]

Are the oxalates removed when the almonds are rendered into butter?

I'm guessing not.

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> ,

>

> I don't know if you are aware that almonds (286 mgs magnesium per 100

> grams) are extremely high in oxalate. If you are trying to get

magnesium,

> pepitos (pumpkin seeds) would be a much better choice.

[Guest guest]

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Sorry. Not at all.

At 10:30 PM 2/18/2008, you wrote:

>Are the oxalates removed when the almonds are rendered into butter?

>I'm guessing not.

>

>

>

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> >

> > ,

> >

> > I don't know if you are aware that almonds (286 mgs magnesium per 100

> > grams) are extremely high in oxalate. If you are trying to get

>magnesium,

> > pepitos (pumpkin seeds) would be a much better choice.

>

>

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[Guest guest]

I talk it just before bed. I'm about to make me a cup now and it's

10:30.

[Guest guest]

Yeah..that's no good. I do have to urinate ALOT at night but I can

handle that every day for the rest of my life over the migraines and

other mess. Sorry it didn't work for you though.