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(Message started by: markg111 on Nov 24^th, 2004, 1:29pm)

Title: Anyone had any luck with Magnesium??
Post by markg111 on Nov 24^th, 2004, 1:29pm

Hi,
I was in the book store reading different books about CH, and came upon this one:

The Magnesium Solution For Migraine Headaches: The Complete Guide To Using Magnesium To Prevent And Treat Migraines And Cluster Headaches Naturally
by Jay S. Cohen
It was a short read (did it while drinking a coffee in the store cafe') but it also sounded convincingly optimistic.
I was wondering if anyone has any luck with magnesium in treating CH
Thanks,
Mark

Title: Re: Anyone had any luck with Magnesium??
Post by Bob P on Nov 24^th, 2004, 1:35pm

I have been taking a magnesium supplement with my muti-vitamins every morning for the past 2 years. I should have started my normal cluster 4 or 5 months ago but it hasn't materialized. Is it the magnesium, don't know. Is it the shrooms I used last clsuter, don't know. Is it because I'm an old fart?

Added benefit - it's makes you regular as the Christmas goose!!!!

Title: Re: Anyone had any luck with Magnesium??
Post by becky8 on Nov 24^th, 2004, 2:41pm

Hard to say, we take so much stuff you never know whats the thing working. I take it everyday but I don't if its helping or the lithium kicked with my verapamil??? Ya know what I am saying. I do know that the melatoin I take at night helps with my sleep somewhat

Title: Re: Anyone had any luck with Magnesium??
Post by sandie99 on Nov 25^th, 2004, 9:50am

once I started eating magnesium (350mg/day) it did help to stop few ch attacks with low kip level. I have been eating magnesium tablets ever since. I can't tell you whether my ch would be worse if I stopped eating those tablets, though.

Title: Re: Anyone had any luck with Magnesium??
Post by Apple on Dec 3^rd, 2004, 3:43pm

I'm finding that taking 500 mgs is helping my migraines.
( I also like Coq10...but I don't know if that helps Clusters)

Title: Re: Anyone had any luck with Magnesium??
Post by Kris_in_SJ on Dec 3^rd, 2004, 9:07pm

Actually, I think it might have been helping my clusters a little, but, unfortunately, it also gave me the worst and truely most awful case of the "hershey squirts" I've ever had.

In other words, on a personal level, I highly recommend it for constipation!

That's just me, though. I think many here have found it to be really helpful.

Hugs,

Kris

Title: Re: Anyone had any luck with Magnesium??
Post by Apple on Dec 6^th, 2004, 12:14pm

Update: I started taking 750 mgs. for constipation and now I'm not getting any h/a's and going to the bathroom really well! ;;D Knock on wood. Don' t let any evil Migraine Devils hear this! I'm thinking good thoughts on the stuff.

Title: Re: Anyone had any luck with Magnesium??
Post by marlin on Dec 7^th, 2004, 6:10pm

So, when you do go to the "bathroom" are there any wild colors swirling around in the bowl?

The reason I ask is magnesium is onee of the principal ingredients in FIREWORKS. Like the 4th of July kind! So I was curious whether you get blown off the seat and every color in the rainbow is represented in the explosion?

Title: Re: Anyone had any luck with Magnesium??
Post by CC2004 on Dec 17^th, 2004, 10:43pm

on 12/07/04 at 18:10:54, marlin wrote:

ummmmmmm :-[ definitately explosive :o especially when previously bound up! :P yuk
BUT Im hanging a lot of hope on this along with water treatment - 2nd day PF other than wrong side and shadows

Title: Re: Anyone had any luck with Magnesium??
Post by Renee on Dec 17^th, 2004, 11:51pm

No explosions here but...now regular just like dawn and dusk. Actually regular with dawn...awww...tmi. [smiley=laugh.gif]

I think it helped as well as coQ10. I still take them, out of habit I suppose, or fear of rocking the boat.