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Magnesium — what my pharmacist said about it

Started 9 April 2024 · 13 replies · 153 hearts · read 3.2k times

XanBerlin, DE · 9 April 2024
2.3 years ago

A question rather than an update: Magnesium — what my pharmacist said about it

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this.

I am not looking for reassurance particularly. I am looking for somebody to say either that they had exactly this, or that they did not, because both would help.

The physical part is manageable. What is wearing me down is the constant low-level monitoring of it, and I would like to stop doing that.

No advice needed if you would rather not. Recognition is genuinely enough.

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HarlanDenver, CO
#1

Prunes. I am sorry. Prunes, and I resisted them for two months on the grounds of dignity.

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TamzinPoole, UK
#2

Xan, answering your question directly rather than going round the houses.

My experience is that this settles for most people and lingers for some, and I am in the lingering group, and it is still manageable.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#3

I want to name that an account of something resolving and an account of something that did not are equally welcome here. A page carrying only the first kind would be no use to the person reading it at two in the morning.

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GwythFishguard, UK
#4

I had already had a complicated gut before any of this and I would say the general advice mostly did not fit me. Bringing it to somebody who knew my history was what worked.

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PerryCardigan, UK
#5

Mine has never entirely gone and it is now a background thing I manage rather than a problem I have. That is an honest place to have arrived.

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TeganNewport, UK
#6

Saying it out loud helps other people say it too. Thank you.

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LeniLeipzig, DE
#7

I found magnesium helpful and I would say plainly that I checked with a pharmacist first because of another medication I take. Please do check.

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PoppyLeeds, UK
#8

Reading Perry, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

The timing of things mattered more than the things themselves for me. Same fibre, spread across the day instead of in one go, completely different result.

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VeraRiga, LV
#9

Mine improved when I stopped ignoring it. That sounds glib and it is literal — I had been putting it off for hours at a time and that was making it worse.

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IvorLlanelli, UK
#10

Somebody here described this as the least discussed and most common part of the whole business, and my experience matches that exactly.

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XanBerlin, DE
#11

Warm drink first thing was what did it for me. I had dismissed that as folklore and it turned out to be the most reliable thing I had.

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TamzinPoole, UK
#13

Tomás — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Movement helped mine more than anything I ate. A twenty-minute walk after dinner, nothing strenuous, and it made a noticeable difference within a week.

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