Magnesium

Has anyone had any luck taking a magnesium supplement? I'm pretty sure I have a deficiency and I wanted to start taking some maybe that will help with my anxiety. Right now I'm willing to try anything!!

Well I'm currently not taking a multi vitamin and not all of them have magnesium in them. But my potassium is always low and that is a good indicator your magnesium is too. The blood tests don't work because only 1% of the magnesium in your body shows up in blood work. I was only going to take up to what someone my age should get a day.

Hi, Melz. I have low potassium, Magnesium and b vitamin problems (due to Crohns Disease), and I can also attest to you shouldn't take anything without doctor approval. Too much or too low magnesium can cause almost anxiety like symptoms, which I think is alot of my problem, it's so hard to regulate them constantly. Plus being on Prilosec which depletes Magnesium is hard to.

But if you suspect it's low, consult a doctor and ask for a blood test. I also have been looking into some protein shake, premade...which has alot of these things plus I think it was 25 mg protein? Might start taking one of those a day.

If you're NOT too keen on vitamins and or medicine...Carnation makes an instant breakfast that has some good benefits? I drink one of those a morning sometimes.

Having some of your body's vits and minerals go crazy can add to the anxiety problem most definitely. My doc Prescribed Magnesium Oxide when I needed it. But it was a mega high dosage. And I only did that for a week. Like Sc suggested, eatng some mag rich foods should help abit. Good luck getting it all regulated. :)

I also have low potassium and horrible anxiety. When I had the potassium bloodwork done, it was low but not scary low for them to give me supplements. At the time, prior to the bloodwork about 3-4 weeks I was eating a lot of potassium rich foods. If I was working on trying to get it up that much (because I was having terrible calf and leg pains, and they have started back up again), then I wonder what its like at times such as now that I haven't been working on getting/keeping the levels up. I cant always afford to buy all of the vitamin and mineral rich foods so I think I would too benefit from a supplement. I never had my magnesium checked, but when I started on Prilosec about almost a year ago when my IBS came about, a little after is when this all started. As Magikaltears just mentioned above which I had no idea about that being on Prilosec depletes the absorption. It has been pretty bad so Im now too thinking I could benefit from something like you say. I go see my Dr on the 31st Im going to ask for magnesium and potassium bloodwork done since im having really bad leg cramps and worsened anxiety. Im glad to have read your post it helped me out a lot! Ive also heard that low potassium and magnesium levels will cause heart palps as well as low electrolyte counts. So im sure it would be a good idea to keep up with the levels just to be safe! Thanks!

Lacey

Thank you for your replies....I have really been researching how we all need these minerals in our systems and that about 75% of adults in the us have a magnesium deficiency. My aunt who is a nurse practitioner and I talked tonight and she said me taking magnesium at such a low dose was totally fine because it's well under the daily recommended value. The only reason I was concerned is because I have low blood pressure. I will keep everyone posted on if it helps at all.

It has helped me a lot. I take 700mg/day, my doctor said that was well within a safe range. I stopped taking it for a while because I doubted it was doing anything and my panic attacks came back along with horrible anxiety. I started back up a few weeks ago and have actually been feeling a lot better!