Posted by Squiggles on March 24, 2007, at 8:18:48 [reposted on March 25, 2007, at 4:35:00 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Give it a whirl..., posted by KayeBaby on March 23, 2007, at 19:36:35
I'll try to keep an open mind on this subject
and read up on it. The broad application of orthomolecular treatments ranging from psyhiatric disturbance to cancer is rather disturbing and smacks of snake-oil panacea. However, i have not seen the statistics, nor read all the literature. I'm willing to follow its development as it seems to have become quite a hot avenue of "research".Certainly, it has not been recommended to me as a medical alternative to lithium by any of my doctors, though i did have a nagging, disturbing doubt at one point when i was tested for magnesium after K-induced seizure and stroke. I would have thought that hospital care would have been a better option. But i did recover in my own bed after a month of excruciating headache and blood pressure swings, and vertigo, and incontinence. I felt as if i was run over by a truck. It seemed so obvious to me that the convulsions/stroke from withdrawal were the cause, and not a magnesium problem. I may just not understand the test and confuse it with orthomolecular medicine.
Squiggles
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