Transdermal Magnesium Guinea-pig thread.

[StickMan]

Great testimonies everyone! As always thanks to Aunty and jm for all of your great information and help. :tiphat:

Just read through a good part of the Mag Facts thread and then jump over here to this thread. Site is still working wonky on me, takes forever to load pages, but I read enough to know that you will have 2 new Guinea-Pigs towards the end of next week. I will get some flakes ordered up here tonight. Probably just order directly from Swansen's, need some more OL anyway.

I am VERY hopeful concerning this, as my wife has severe, and I do mean severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and my body is pretty broken up (moderate to severe Chronic Pain 24/7). We both have ALL of the symptoms of being very Mag def.
Checked my PH yesterday for the first time in months, and was shocked again 7.6. Need to check the wife's.

So, I will be back as soon as therapy starts here at Stick Pharms.

 

[Renaissance Redneck]

I hope it works as well for you and your missus as it has for us, StickMan. :karma Cloud:
As a side note, last nights soak might have been a bit much for me. Average sized tub, 125F water (to start. Almost TOO hot!), 7 cups of mgcl flakes. 30 minute soak time.
Good Grief!! I came out like a noodle, the glass of wine I had felt like the whole bottle. I wobbled over to the couch-lights out.
For the better part of this morning, I had a persistent tic/twitch in my right index finger. As usual, my back and shoulders felt much relief, but no more so than with a 2 cup soak.
I don't know if the twitch was a result of too much mag, but I may drop back to a couple of cups per bath, with spot treatment of the full strength for the really achy parts of me.

 

[StickMan]

Thanks for the heads up bro :hug:
Can't wait to try some. I never take baths, but I think that may be changing here. I do have some EPS, maybe I will take a bath using some of those while I'm waiting for the MC.

 

[Renaissance Redneck]

Yeah I kinda hate taking baths, but WOW, it's made a difference for me.
My missus hasn't used ES for quite some time now for her foot bath, says the mag feels much better.

 

[a9ymous]

Just adding my experience... really like seeing so many people interested in magnesium here. Had a breakthrough with it about a year ago, can't believe no doctor ever tested me for deficiency since I have a lot of the classic symptoms and/or problems it's known to help (chronic pain both from injuries and arthritis and probably some measure of CFS, severe anxiety,insomnia, digestive problems etc.). More than that, for years I drank a bit too much trying to self-medicate which only made things worse.

After reading up, I take both magnesium citrate and magnesium chloride as tablets with dinner, magnesium l-threonate capsules during the day, bathe a couple of times a week with epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) which is easy because I prefer baths to showers anyway, and use magnesium chloride spray (the "oil") locally on the old injury sites when they flare up or after working out hard. I think I've been deficient in mg my whole life and this has made a huge difference in pain, anxiety, and sleep, and I'm never blocked up either (sorry, unpleasant if positive information). Was able to get off of an Rx sleep aid after about two weeks tapering off. I stopped taking a calcium supplement like all doctors constantly scream at women over 40 to do and instead just track how much calcium I'm eating--turns out I get plenty through my diet. Wish I'd known about it 20 years ago! I feel like the benefits keep getting better over time as more new cells are being built with enough mg present.

I've been taking a lot of other supplements too, but magnesium has been one of the top breakthroughs I've had, along with MSM and some other things. Mg and MSM together have been helping me rebuild my body. I feel better than I did 10 years ago and I probably look better. I feel like I'm going back in time

Of course, weed helps all this stuff even more, I just haven't been able to keep it around because I don't live in a good state for it and don't like the risk of growing. But it helped me start digging myself out of an early grave back in 2010 and has helped keep things improving whenever I've had it. Got a small harvest coming up. I only use it in coconut or MCT oil, almost never smoke.

 

[Root]

Thanks a9ymous!

Always enjoy hearing other's experiences!

 

[Mossy]

Had a breakthrough with it about a year ago, can't believe no doctor ever tested me for deficiency since I have a lot of the classic symptoms and/or problems it's known to help (chronic pain both from injuries and arthritis and probably some measure of CFS, severe anxiety,insomnia, digestive problems etc.).

Spot on what we are treating..

More than that, for years I drank a bit too much trying to self-medicate which only made things worse.

Yup..but it is the only thing that helps you sleep at the time..I Think Most of our chronic sickies will drink for meds..
(IMO..Alcoholism is going to be connected back to the magnesium deficiency too..more homework needed.)

locally on the old injury sites when they flare up or after working out hard.

Have you Read the Magnesium and calcification Link...?..I'm going to explain it out shortly..But..if you are Magnesium deficient your blood cells can be full of calcium..so if you work out or work hard..it will bring extra blood to the Working areas..if that extra blood is full of calcium rather than oxygen..it is going to start calcifying the heavy working areas.

Magnesium in large enough doses dissolves the calcium build-up.

That is going to be the crux of what we are doing here...

I stopped taking a calcium supplement like all doctors constantly scream at women over 40 to do and instead just track how much calcium I'm eating--turns
out I get plenty through my diet. Wish I'd known about it 20 years ago! I feel like the benefits keep getting better over time as more new cells are being built with enough mg present.

Exceedingly few healthcare practitioners in the world have learned much about magnesium medicine so they do not know to lay off the calcium and
start intensive magnesium treatments. After decades of dairy industry marketing pushing calcium we have a situation that is literally killing millions of
people. Anyone who wants to live longer should pay attention to the magnesium story and should immediately begin a strong and prolonged treatment with
magnesium in its chloride form. Magnesium chloride is the most versatile, absorbable and effective form of magnesium and can be used orally, transdermally
and via IV drip. It can even be nebulized directly into the lungs and in much diluted form dropped into the eyes when its purest forms are used.

While calcium affects muscle contractions, magnesium balances that effect and relaxes muscles. Calcium tightens the muscles; magnesium relaxes the muscles. With
insufficient magnesium the muscles stay tense and through the years may cause a cramp in the muscle. This could happen when you have too much calcium or too
little magnesium. Too much calcium causes the heart to go into a spasm and it can’t relax. This is a heart attack. Get some magnesium into the body and the
heart will slowly start returning to normal unless major damage has already been done. Add iodine and selenium and we have the makings of an ideal formula to
support recovery and possibly even minor tissue regeneration.

Mg and MSM together have been helping me rebuild my body. I feel better than I did 10 years ago and I probably look better. I feel like I'm going back in time

Yup..I Know reading that you have it...:thumbs:..that is the Effect we are going for..

But it helped me start digging myself out of an early grave back in 2010 and
has helped keep things improving whenever I've had it.

Working Theory...more homework required BUT...IMO..we are inhaling the chlorophyl from the green plant matter of the bud we smoke..chlorophyl is made up of Magnesium and Potassium..canna is Correcting our Deficiency..:tiphat:..

 

[Mossy]

For purposes of cellular detoxification and tissue purification, the most effective form of magnesium is magnesium chloride, which has a strong excretory effect on toxins and stagnant energies stuck in the tissues of the body, drawing them out through the pores of the skin. Chloride is required to produce a large quantity of gastric acid each day and is also needed to stimulate starch-digesting enzymes.
According to Daniel Reid, author of The Tao of Detox, magnesium sulfate, commonly known as Epsom salts, is rapidly excreted through the kidneys and therefore difficult to assimilate. This would explain in part why the effects from Epsom salt baths do not last long and why you need more magnesium sulfate in a bath than magnesium chloride to get similar results. Magnesium chloride is easily assimilated and metabolized in the human body.

Is there any reason you are using the Epsoms in the bath rather than the mag chloride..?

 

[Mossy]

For the better part of this morning, I had a persistent tic/twitch in my right index finger.

Redneck you know that is Odd..coz the twitches are down to Lack of Mag..or Overdose of Cal...

You hadn't had a Dairy blow out had you..?

 

[Renaissance Redneck]

You hadn't had a Dairy blow out had you..?

I'm not sure what that is, Aunty.
As far as the twitchy finger, I'm really not sure what caused it. I do still plan on reducing the mag in my baths, just because 2 or 3 cups seams to work for me as well as 6 or 7.
I've been off tobacco for a couple of weeks, maybe that had something to do with it? The missus thought it was kinda funny, "You've gone from an itchy trigger finger to a twitchy trigger finger!".
Oh, I did eat a bowl of ice cream last night, first sugar fix in quite some time. Maybe related?