Hello,
I've had headaches most of my life, but in recent years, they have gotten worse and developed into migraines. I see a recommendation here is to take magnesium. I've been taking two Dr. Best magnesium daily for the last year. I'll up the dose to three per day to see if that helps. The heachaches are so bad lately that I very hesitatingly resorted to Excedrin (as Tylenol no longer works). Excedrin seems to help them, but the headaches have been recurring--possibly due to extreme unusual stress, or maybe food?? I've been having sharp abdominal pain/cramps on/off for the last two weeks, and I'm wondering if that's due to the Exedrin--or the stress? I haven't had any of these pains for over 1 1/2 years.
I'll see if upping the mag dose to three/day helps, but I imagine that's not going to be as quick of a fix as the Excedrin. Any recommendations for these headaches when they come on for days on end so I can be productive? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Anne
Migraines
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Re: Migraines
Hi Anne,
Be sure you divide up the dose, because we can only absorb so much magnesium in any given time period, and if we take too much at one time, most of it may be wasted. Back when I had a chronic magnesium deficiency, I doubled my dose for a few months in order to build up my reserves, but the increased dose resolved all my symptoms in one day. That might not be typical, though, because I was so deficient at the time (because of back to back antibiotic treatments for dental procedures) that I was waking up in the wee hours of the morning, sweating profusely, with heart palpitations, and rapid, shallow breathing (anxiety/panic attack symptoms). Now I take a 100 mg tablet (of magnesium glycinate) after breakfast, another after lunch, and another right before bedtime, for 300 mg total for the day.
Tex
Be sure you divide up the dose, because we can only absorb so much magnesium in any given time period, and if we take too much at one time, most of it may be wasted. Back when I had a chronic magnesium deficiency, I doubled my dose for a few months in order to build up my reserves, but the increased dose resolved all my symptoms in one day. That might not be typical, though, because I was so deficient at the time (because of back to back antibiotic treatments for dental procedures) that I was waking up in the wee hours of the morning, sweating profusely, with heart palpitations, and rapid, shallow breathing (anxiety/panic attack symptoms). Now I take a 100 mg tablet (of magnesium glycinate) after breakfast, another after lunch, and another right before bedtime, for 300 mg total for the day.
Tex
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Re: Migraines
Thank you so much, as always, for your guidance Tex. I hope the extra magnesium works for me.
-Anne
-Anne
Re: Migraines
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.