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 aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

HarlanDenver, CO

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

TamzinPoole, UK

Reading the opening post, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

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

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

13me too 7

GwythFishguard, UK

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

PerryCardigan, UK

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

TeganNewport, UK

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

LeniLeipzig, DE

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

PoppyLeeds, UK

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

VeraRiga, LV

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

10me too 8

IvorLlanelli, UK

#10

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

XanBerlin, DE

#11

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

#12

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

TamzinPoole, UK

#13

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.