Posted by Larry Hoover on November 26, 2004, at 12:48:48
In reply to Re: Anyone up? im so silly » Larry Hoover, posted by linkadge on November 26, 2004, at 11:38:17
> Although I am still trying to determine if magnesium is more or less calming than lithium.
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> They have a slightly different feel to them.
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> LinkadgeAnd well they ought to. A number of your recent symptoms may be due to chronic loss of magnesium in urine, due to stress. I say may be, as the syndrome, sometimes called "latent tetany", is one without any proven diagnostic tests or measures. The "treatment" is magnesium challenge. If symptoms remit, then a functional magnesium deficiency is presumed.
The problem in assessing magnesium is that 98% of it is not in the blood at any one time. It's in bones, or in organs, acting to modulate various enzymes and receptors. Blood content is quite labile, and in a cruel quirk of biochemistry, magnesium is dumped into the blood to reduce adrenal responsivity, while at the same time, adrenal hormones increase its loss into urine. You can get into one of those classic vicious circles in short order.
Since you seem to be responding to magnesium, I also suggest that you fortify with vitamin D. It will help stabilize the parathyroid glands, which are always stressed in magnesium deficiency states.
Lar
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