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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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Hi All, maybe it's a silly question and already discussed, but I'm wondering if our sighing dyspnea can be connected to any mineral or vitamin deficiency, such as magnesium.
I am jumping from one research to another, and keep arriving back to magnesium deficiency as a possible cause. I'm wondering if you've already experimented with taking it as a supplement, and whether it helped.
I started taking Mg citrate today, I feel better, but one day is not representative. It could be easily just the fact that it's finally a sunny Satruday, and my mood is higher 🙂
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@lidiaboglarka When my dyspnea first started back in 2012, I did research on mineral/vitamin deficiencies as well. So I started taking vitamin B12, which strangely had an immediate effect of clearing the problem very quickly. I could breathe normal again. That went on for probably just a few weeks, maybe a couple of weeks, and then the dyspnea returned and so I started taking an iron supplement. Once again, that helped clear the problem for days, and then it returned. So I don't know why that happened, but any supplements I take now, including magnesium, don't help the problem.
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@lidiaboglarka- This is a great question. Among the most serious symptoms of magnesium deficiency is a heart arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat However, in some people, it may cause heart palpitations, which are pauses between heartbeats. Other possible symptoms of arrhythmia include lightheadedness, shortness of breath, chest pain, or fainting. Do you have any of these? Has you magnesium level been tested? I take 400 mg with my calcium