krojo wrote on Feb 12^th, 2010 at 1:18pm:


Was the shot a quick hit with the needle?  That is likely to be only slightly more effective than a magnesium tablet (unless you have celiac disease or something that messes up your gut). The gold standard is a prolonged intravenous drip, combined with monitoring blood and urine levels of magnesium.

When people have been in a chronic state of low magnesium, taking more magnesium initially results in stable blood levels but little increased excretion via the kidneys ... it goes into muscles and nerves and bones. If blood magnesium is low, you are really in trouble. To prevent this, we evolved with multiple mechanisms to pull magnesium out of other tissues and into the blood ... handy, but it often creates the impression that everything is fine with respect to magnesium when it is not.

The gut has a limited ability to absorb magnesium - so your doc is partially right. If you get loose stools, it means you are taking more than can be absorbed. But taking magnesium right up to bowel tolerance and then backing down a little is the best way the average person can be sure that they are correcting a magnesium deficiency.

BLOOD PRESSURE! 

During an attack we all go into panic mode, and thus so does our bodies.  Our blood pressure shoots through the roof. 

During an attack i slowly start peeling the clothing off until im down to my shorties! Then as the headaches tapper off i slowly start to shake and shiver until its gone. 

I think its the shock the body goes into.  Maybe the heart is trying to shoot blood up to the head to combat the pain.  I dunno.  But this always happens to me.  It sucks.