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Magnesium and heart rhythm problems
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Apr 28, 2023 | Replies (73)Comment receiving replies
Not replying to anyone in particular but a huge "thank you!" to everyone! Due to the Pfizer double jab, like many around the world, I am now sufferng from "hypersensitivty" to food! Yep, a world-wide study, compiling data from dozens of legit sources, noted this new problem. The CoVid vax with the highest number of food hypersensitivity? Pfizer. So, I'm NOT imagining a connection! Had well controlled mastocytosis. No problems but an occasional hive. Kept under control with 10 mg Claritin and 200 mg Tagamet per day. My only "trigger?" Tobacco smoke.
After the double jab, my strictly cutaneous mastocytosis escalated to MCAS-GI (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome-Gastrointestinal). Up to nine bouts of diarrhea per day. Imagine my loss of magnesium, of all electrolytes. A-fib was the next, connected symptom. The domino effect.
Intelligent observation above. Many forms of magnesium have a laxative effect. I was on a quest. I'm almost back to normal in terms of GI by staying on a diet that is extremely restricted (must avoid all high histamine foods). However, my A-fib (though better) does still result in the occasional blood clot. Using 1/2 of an adult aspirin every night to keep my blood thinned.
I will most definitely try the magnesium taurate mentioned above.
As to magnesium glycinate, it's supposed to have benefits for diabetics. Ergo, I'll be giving that to my husband after we've used up his magnesium citrate powder.
You people are awesome! If I have success with magnesium taurate in both "departments" (intestines and heart rhythm) I promise I'll report back. Oh, a test determined I am deficient in both magnesium and calcium. Also low in sodium, which explains my low blood pressure. B3 and E are vitamins I've got to boost. Slightly deficient in choline, too.
Considering what I've been going through the past 18 months, I am doing well. I'm a maniac about supplementation. Perhaps all those vitamins, minerals, herbs, enzymes, amino acids and more have kept me alive. Even regained 2 whole pounds. As of this morning, I'm up to 117!!!!
Don't. Give. Up!
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Thanks to your and others' posts, I've become aware I have two bottles of magnesium I've been relying on (different brands - one, I fished out my recycling bin to check).
Turns out both say they're magnesium oxide! One says it has added zinc (and I just read somewhere that zinc can negate the effect of certain eye vitamins - ones I take on doctors' orders, AREDS2. That zinc sensitivity only afflicts 15% of those taking the vitamins. ).
AREDs is very expensive and supposed to help ward off blindness for those with macular degeneration (Serious business! I'm almost blind in my right eye already.)
What's more, the zinc study was supposedly done on the basis of a double blind study seeing how people did on supplements with and without AREDS, both kinds (with and without zinc.) Not only did it show some people shouldn't take it, it said those with the zinc sensitivity could be harmed by it.)
Beating my head against the wall!!
So much for living on the internet trying to research issues to do with my two big diagnoses - AFIB/arrhythmia, and wet macular degeneration!
I'm about to arrange to arrange a "Watchman Procedure" (minor heart operation - if any heart operation is minor) so I can stop taking the blood thinner. Why? Because it turns out it worsens the timeline whereby wet macular degeneration leads to blindness. (It's incurable. A matter not of "IF" but "WHEN")
And vis a vis the magnesium, I've been taking what I thought was THE magnesium for two reasons:
1) To minimize my painful night-time leg cramps
2) To make sure I'm keeping up my electrolytes.
Now I'm completely flummoxed! I guess I'll do some more Googling to try to distinguish them, in case particular kinds are desirable for my purposes. I suspect the magnesium taurate [sic] isn't even available around here.
I don't think this conundrum would be complete without mentioning that thanks to a member here, I now realize I need to have a "reversal agent" available since I'm taking blood thinner.
That's because sometimes one needs to cancel out the blood thinning effect of that medicine, immediately - like if one has a hemorrhagic stroke (instead of the ischemic kind the blood thinners protect against. Or is in an accident and needs surgery, or.....or....) That member said he learned his local hospital didn't carry the reversal agent because it's too expensive - that the nearest hospital carrying it was 8 hours away! Well, I checked with my hospital and they don't have the anti-anti coagulant either.
In fairness, one needs one or two infusions of it FAST, if one needs it (like in case of the other kind of stroke). One infusion costs $25,000 and the second costs the same. I think I'm truly at my wits end about these issues. (I called my cardiologist to ask him about it, and he didn't even know the hospital didn't have the reversal agent!)
HELP!!
Thinking I ought to turn this into a new topic - about the difficulties in figuring out how to choose medicines
in terms of interactions. It's to the point to where I think I ought to just flip a coin about each issue and hold off on the Watchman Procedure. (I'll just add for good measure that I learned that Biotin, if taken before a thyroid test, distorts the results...)
At least I'll look for the new kind of magnesiums in case they're available to help both my cardiac arrythmia and the other for my
night-time cramps. TWO KINDS OF MAGNESIUM!?!
There IS such a thing as "Polypharmacy" - which is a medical malady whereby one is just taking too many pills. It's especially a problem with today's medicine, because with everything slightly complicated relegated to a specialist, no ONE doctor knows what we ought to be taking. That, plus doctors' tendency to recommend a pill to solve a problem called to his/her attention
I doubt even my PCP knows all my list of meds and supplements even though they're in my chart - much less how they interact.
(I'm supposed to take three separate medicines on an empty stomach first thing in the morning! How so??)
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@frenchie333 Hi, I am glad you are better and gaining weight. That is great and I have gone from 93 to 105. Boy, putting on pounds is really hard. Now the question is, I take 500 mg Mg at bedtime to help me sleep per my PCP. Also, I am dealing with afib, CHD, and COPD so it can not be all bad. Everyone's situation is different, I guess we need to listen to our care team members to know the direction we should travel. Keep me informed as to your progress and keep the pounds on that is important at least for me. I have more to gain. Stay healthy as best we can. KLH