Severe reaction to Magnesium

[alivehope]

Hello

I felt relaxed when I swallowed 250mg of Magnesium but when I went to bed, I was shocked. I was awake from 11pm to 3am and awakesleep from 3am to 7am.

The symptoms I suffered from as result of taking magnesium were

1- Restless leg (( one leg started jerking ))
2- Endless Appetite (( never felt full ))
3- Obsessive thoughts that repeated themselves million times.
4- Severe Insomnia with no tensed eye muscles which is new for me.
5- Pain and aches all over my body.
6- Permenant bad feeling


How long does it take magnesium to get out of my body? Anyone had similiar reactions? Why the hell my CNS is so sensitive like that? I will never ever try any supplement again in my life.

[NewQuestions]

I am extremely sensitive to all supplements. I can't take anything!

[frankdee]

dude its not the magnesium that caused your symptoms. its the dysregulation of brain chemistry caused by your ssris. i had the exact symptoms. only time will heal us. it takes a long time however. years.

[TryingtoGetWell]

My symptoms were different in some ways, but although I always had problems with my digestive system from magnesium (even low doses, and regardless of form or type of chelate - I've tried them ALL!), this year I tried it again (several different kinds of chelates) and developed a severe inflammation and swelling so bad my doctor panicked, and it seemed to various medical professionals that I had some kind of fast-growing growth. The inflammation was on one side and spread through my back, my side, and the top of my leg - so bad I could barely sleep. My stomach swelled up hard as rock and huge, and kept swelling.

I couldn't get most of the tests my doctor prescribed because I'm so hyperreactive I couldn't risk contrast dyes or sedation or anesthesia. A CT scan showed a previously unknown condition but which couldn't be related to the symptoms or to w/d - nothing more. So we'll never really know what was going on, except that since it had started after taking the magnesium - no other things we could connect it to - I stopped the magnesium and the symptoms reversed themselves and now have been completely gone for months.

Ironically, I had a real improvement in some w/s symtoms at this time, so I was very reluctant to stop taking the magnesium, though I had to. I haven't tried magnesium tum soaks (Dead Sea soaks and/or epsom salts) - too busy and also had developed skin irritation years ago from epsom salt soaks, even though I used to bathe in them regularly when I was younger with no problems. But I'm going to try at least the Dead Sea salt soaks (for limited periods of time, and RINSING OFF AFTERWARDS) as soon as I get around to it (things are very hectic lately for me, for personal reasons).

I don't know if I will have problems from dermal absorption from magnesium or not, so will have to wait til I'm under less personal pressures to try them. But I do know that the magnesium leaves the system fairly soon and there's no permanent harm done from a bad reaction.

I wish I could tell you exactly how long it will take to leave your system, but since the body needs magnesium to survive and function, it's a question of the excess leaving your system, and that probably varies with each person. It shouldn't take too long though.

I am now taking several supplements (including low doses - partial tablets - of some minerals I felt I needed, and I'm now able to tolerate those even though I couldn't earlier in w/d). I also am using a bit of a combination sea salt/dulse/kelp on food to ensure I get enough iodine in a safe form (apparently these are much safer than the kind in iodized salt or nutritional supplements), and these supply minute amounts of trace minerals in a form natural to our body. I'm having no problem with that, even though it's only a tiny amount.

I'd hold off on even sea salt and such until you're over this reaction, of course. Your body will eliminate the supplement naturally and without permanent effects, unlike medications! I hope you feel better very soon - and I expect it will be quite soon.

[pax80]

can this mean you're low on magnesium? could be!

[Healing]

I had a very bad reaction to magnesium the first time I took it. I was roughly one year post-taper at the time, and I took a dose of 200 mg. First, I got very relaxed, and, then, a couple of hours later, I had an intense rebound, with frighteningly rapid heart rate. That introduced the symptom of rapid, hard heart beat for me, which I had not had up until then, and which then lasted for years.

However, roughly two years post-taper, I tried magnesium again. This time, I started with 50 mg, and after a week or two, went up another 50 mg. Over the next couple of years I went up slowly on my dose whenever I could tolerate an increase (based mostly on bowel tolerance, but also being cautious overall). Every time I've gone up, it has given me more benefit, until, finally, at my current dose of 850 mg mag glycinate, I got rid of the adrenaline dumps.

It's a b*tch that, as part of this syndrome, we can't tolerate supplements that would give us symptom relief.

The take home lessons are: 1) what you can't tolerate at one point in the recovery, you may well be able to tolerate later on, and 2) always start with a very low dose and work up. I might have been able to avoid my initial problems with magnesium if I had started small.

[alivehope]

The take home lessons are: 1) what you can't tolerate at one point in the recovery, you may well be able to tolerate later on, and 2) always start with a very low dose and work up. I might have been able to avoid my initial problems with magnesium if I had started small.

My diet is rich of natural sources of magnesium like whole-grains and spinach with no bad reaction. I thought if I was able to tolerate natural magnesium, I would be able to tolerate supplementary magnesium.

Your body will eliminate the supplement naturally and without permanent effects, unlike medications! I hope you feel better very soon - and I expect it will be quite soon.

Thanks a lot, I am feeling a lot better and the bad reaction is gone. I hate supplements because bad reaction means they will be in my closet and everytime I see them, I feel as if there was no end to withdrawal.

only time will heal us. it takes a long time however. years.

I wish I had a time machine, I would travel back and to never go on Maxill.

can this mean you're low on magnesium? could be!

Maybe.

I am extremely sensitive to all supplements. I can't take anything!

I also extremely senisitive to many foods.

[TryingtoGetWell]

So glad you're feeling better!

Not all, certainly, but many of us are hyperreactive to many things for some time after w/d. Good idea to try any new thing - even foods - in small quantities at first to see how you do. (I have to do that, and am extremely limited in what I can eat. Interestingly I'm now able to eat some foods I suddenly couldn't tolerate even small amounts of earlier in w/d, but still get back reactions from others. I have to keep checking every so often.)

Luckily bad reactions to foods or most supplements go away quickly (unlike problems from SSRIs!), even though they're miserable while you're experiencing them and reactions can even trigger w/d symptoms (they do with me). But they don't alter the body's functional abilities, so the bad reactions go away after the food or supplement is completely cleared from the body (generally within four days, usually feel better sooner).

It may happen with other things, including foods, for a time. If it does, relax and know that you'll feel better very soon. It's not like w/d!