I've been taking magnesium glycinate for around two months. I also take creatine for the gym and Ashwaganda here and there, depending on my anxiety and stress related problems and also vitamin D3 + K2. Recently for the past week or so I've had horrible trouble trying to fall asleep and also waking up in the middle of the night and again trying to fall back asleep is so hard. I don't know if it's the magnesium in general or if it's just the glycinate or maybe even one of the other supplements I take but I know that for the past week and a bit it's been hell trying to fall asleep and stays asleep without waking up in the middle of the night two or three times. Let me know any suggestions or what I should do.

I recently started running and get cramps in my legs when I run. Specifically the calf and soleus. I've undergone multiple blood tests, Ultra sounds...but nothing seems to be showing up.

Magnesium seems like a wonder nutritional supplement..but should I be taking tablets or applying ointments before my runs? It only pains when I run...

Thoughts about what is in each capsule? Is it to much?

Can we all come together and make a list of the symptoms you felt, and how you fixed them or discovered the mag deficiency compared to how you are now? I want to see people get back out in the world and live your lives!!!

1. How much/how often do you take magnesium for anxiety?

2. Is it safe to take it without knowing what your level currently is? I’ve never been tested f but I know my daily vitamin and zero magnesium

3. I’d like to try to it, but not if it’s going to make my anxiety worse and give me panic attacks if I stop taking it. Are there a withdrawals?

Hi, I have some questions about my magnesium dosage. I’ve asked this type of thing to doctors with no helpful answers so I’m hoping someone here can help instead.

It’s complicated and bathroom-related so thank you if you read it all :) I’m female in my 20s. I’ve been taking a magnesium complex (500mg of oxide, citrate, succinate) from Life Extension, plus another third-ish of a capsule, so around 660mg every evening currently) for fiveish years and am needing to adjust the dosage frequently based on my body’s patterns/responses, which I can never figure out. I’ve developed IBS-M so mostly take magnesium to help go to the bathroom. The stomach issues are inconsistent/alternating and largely caused by anxiety which I am working on, but have been wondering if the magnesium is exacerbating anything. Sorry if this is TMI, but over time I’ve gone from one or two BMs in the morning a few years ago to anywhere from roughly five to ten+ now, over the course of a few hours while drinking copious amounts of tea to help. As soon as I go the first time, it feels incomplete and my stomach feels awful so I keep having to go over and over to get it all out.

You’d think this would signify I’m taking too much magnesium, but the problem is it doesn’t just come out easily. The consistency is a bit loose but I have to wait till my body is ready to let go again which seems to take forever, despite how my stomach feels, and ends up getting drawn out throughout the day sometimes, all with continuing urgency feeling/nausea etc. It feels sluggish to go and come out sometimes and there is still straining involved. Sometimes it just stops completely and I’m unable to go anymore despite feeling like I need to, which makes my stomach feel awful and incomplete or causes trapped gas. It’s not just tenesmus because I actually do need to go more.

If I decrease magnesium, which I’m scared to do too much of, I don’t go as much but feel like I desperately need to due to how my stomach feels. I’ve also tried a 500mg capsule + a few sprays of topical magnesium, but 1) never know how much to spray, and 2) still feel incomplete. Some days it magically works out and I don’t feel incomplete so I know it’s possible somehow. If it were simple diarrhea it would be more obvious that I’m taking too much, but this is just crazy and different.

Does this sound familiar to anyone or do you have any idea of how much magnesium I should be taking or what to do about this? I have wracked my brain (and google) about this for years. I am getting help in other ways but this is a consistent variable that I may still be in control of, so am trying to figure out what else I can do about it. Thank you for any help!

I have seen a lot online about how most people can benefit from taking magnesium. After doing research I think I’m going to take L Threonate. I don’t struggle with sleep so that’s why I chose it. But honestly the type shouldn’t matter because it will give you magnesium regardless, as long as I don’t experience side effects?

Hi! I just wanted to share something I experienced and came across just this week, maybe it will help someone else as well! Long one, so bear with me :).

I’ve suffered from low energy, muscle fatigue, baddd general fatigue, low appetite, brain fog, blurry vision on and off (where I’ll have a day where it’s ok every 3 months lol), lack of enjoyment(anhedonia), and even more that I can’t remember right now.

Im still struggling with a few of these, but I’ve had insufficient vitamin D as well (25ng/ml or 63 nmol/L) so I’m hoping after restarting my D3 regimen again last week, it will go better than last time when I had little to no effects.

But here’s what happened and has happened:

I’ve taken magnesium before (375mg pill that I used to chew or split up - bad idea -, and I used to take it on an empty stomach. Also bad idea. These two bad habits got me some extra fatigue and motivation, stomach discomfort, and a hard time (or the opposite) on da shitter™️. After learning to swallow it whole (along with an extra 300-500mg daily) and take it with food, almost all side effects disappeared!

It didn’t help my symptoms a lot though. But it did, when I took my methyl B complex along with it. My blurry vision and energy levels got better! When I only took one or the other, nothing happened.

A lot of people talk about thiamine (B1) and magnesium, but B6 cannot be forgotten and it is super important as well!) I remember reading about how magnesium needs B6 for utilization, and with my imbalanced homocysteine and good B9 and B12 levels, I decided to take 25mg P5P B6 during the day as well. And oh. Wow.

I CAN SEE! I can actually see things more than 4 meters away clearly! I can see to the end of the street! The road when I drive is much clearer! WOOO!

It also made my energy levels better. It didn’t completely remove my fatigue, but a good 40% of it disappeared and my initiation process got shortened noticeably as well, wether it’s doing some chore or cleaning up. This is amazing, I’ve been like this for almost 10 years, and I’m only 19.

I’m really hoping when the vitamin D3 kicks in, hopefully with this newfound balance and function of magnesium, that it’s the last puzzle piece to fall into place! We’ll see, but I’m hoping thats how it goes!

I’m still dealing with the other symptoms as well, but this journey feels a little bit easier now.

NOTE: Be careful with B6 as too high doses can cause toxicity. P5P is more bioavailable and creates less waste products in the body, but still. Stick to the dosage on the bottle or the recommended ones!

I had low ferritin that I also corrected recently (16 to 87 by supplements - read my other comments for that!) and didn’t find much relief, so I knew there was something else going on, which there clearly was/is! Not sure if magnesium deficiency, B6 deficiency or both, but this works for me, so I’ll keep at it!

Thank you for reading, have a good day whoever you are! 🫶

I started taking it six months ago to help with concentration. As far as I know I have never been magnesium deficient. One day two weeks ago I took only two pills instead of three and the last two weeks have been absolute hell. I’ve had horrible panic attacks that I’ve never had before. It’s getting better now but I almost lost my job because of this. How do I get off of this? I don’t know what to do.

Whats a good magnesium supplement to take when glycinate, oxide and stearate all make me violently ill? Trying to correct a magnesium deficiency (level currently 1.2) are there any other ways to get enough mag in without having to take pills? Can't get it from food alone due to malabsorption issue.

More info: I'm currently taking 50k iu of D3 without k2 twice a week for a vitamin D deficiency as well.

Magnesium causing muscle twitching. Is this just a normal paradoxical reaction since I already had muscle twitching prior to starting?

So I was definately Magnesium deficient and taking it has increased my well being by a shitton (especially the neurotransmitters and the methylation cycle). However, it has also really fucked up my MCAS. I now react to EVERYTHING. However, Methylation now runs much better so despite being in a fucked up bodily situation, my mind feels amazing.

So since before I started supplementing the processes involving Magnesium didn't work properly my theory is that by kickstarting all these processes again I now also have a higher need for supporting Nutrients.

My main problem is extreme tightness in my muscles from various triggers (smells, clothing etc)

I'm already on Calcium, D and K2. Getting the Calcium in has definately calmed the MCAS a bit. Currently I'm experimenting with B1 (makes my hardened connective tissue turn soft again, unfortunately the muscles underneath are still tight and get extremely tight when MCAS activates (It's actually a really weird experience where the muscles turn hard and hurt but the connective tissue above still feels soft)) and have ordered the other B vitamins in single non methylated form so I can test them.

So my question is: What Nutrients are used up in Magnesium reactions? What should I be looking at?

(I'm also Histamine, Oxalate and Salicylate intolerant for several years)

I've read around and reached out in some other spaces about b complex with magnesium. I am at 725 mg magnesium daily with my multivitamin. Well, today, I decided to add in some more b complex. I had been taking it in the past but took a break. The pill I purchased has a pretty small amount and I previously took higher doses without issue. Still, I took half of the pill just in case and it's a good thing because next thing I knew I was quite anxious and couldn't sit still and my nerves felt tight. Well, that eventually passed and then I wondered if magnesium is depleting my B's. So far I've heard it doesn't but I'm not sure what to think. Am I get too much magnesium? Is this a sign I need more b vitamins?

I'm suffering from malnutrition

from anorexia related to drinking and poor childhood nutrition so I'm a complicated case and have not gotten help from my doctors. It's been very hard for me to try to make headway with this and I react to everything.

I’m struggling with deficiencies in both calcium and magnesium, and whenever I take one, it seems to worsen the symptoms associated with the other.

I’ve come across conflicting advice on how to address this. Some recommend taking calcium and magnesium together to prevent imbalances, while others suggest taking them separately to optimize absorption and avoid competition between the two. I’m unsure which approach would work best for my situation.

Anyone tried taking them together?

I took 240mg of MG by Pure Encapsulation for 3 days in the morning with breakfast for my anxiety and it ramped up my anxiety, gave me insomnia and on the 3rd day I had one bout of diarrhea. I’ve read that maybe I have a glycine sensitivity? I’ve also read that it’s such a low dose it shouldn’t be causing those symptoms and that it also takes a week for MG to even build up in your system. Just wondering if this has happened to anyone else or if anyone has any advice. I thought about going down to 120mg, but unsure. My doctor can’t really tell me what to do. They’re kind of clueless to supplements other than saying it’s safe for me to take.

I've seen people mention that one can't eat their way out of a magnesium deficiency several times on this subreddit.

Can someone help me understand why is that the case?

Hey everyone,

I recently got some lab results back and I’m a bit overwhelmed. I’ve listed the “bad” results below (I'm assuming they're bad due to them all being in red on my results):

Magnesium: 1.2 mg/dL Vitamin D: 11 ng/mL Ferritin: 373 ng/mL B12: 580 pg/mL Vitamin A (Retinol): 24 mcg/dL Iron Binding Capacity: 239 mcg/dL

I know this is a Magnesium reddit but wanted to include the others for additional context. I’ve been experiencing a lot of symptoms over the past 3 months:

• Extreme fatigue
• Moments where I feel like I’m going to pass out
• Almost constant breathlessness
• A pulling sensation when I inhale deeply
• Occasional chest/upper back pain
• Constant tingling in my legs & feet (my feet are always cold)
• Random muscle twitching
• Joint pain
• Frequent throbbing headaches behind my eyes
• Racing heartbeat at random times (over 100 bpm when standing)
• My vision has gotten terrible. Especially at night.
• Anxiety/Panic Attacks waking me out of my sleep (and I have no history of anxiety whatsoever)

I’ve already had chest X-rays, EKGs, CT scans, etc., and everything came back normal. I was even tested for POTS, and that came back negative.

I know my Vitamin D is super low, and I’m addressing that, but I also wanted to ask for advice on magnesium supplements. I've tried magnesium glycinate and oxide but they cause me terrible chest pain, palpitations, and anxiety.

So, I’m looking for recommendations on magnesium supplements (preferably ones that are easier on the stomach) and suggestions on dosages to start with. Any advice or personal experiences would be greatly appreciated!

I bought powdered magnesium glycinate and thought it was the same as the magnesium I usually take, so I took a teaspoon which I just learned is 5000mg.

Im in a foreign country. What do I do?

How much b complex should we be getting with magnesium?

“The Power of Magnesium: Why This Mineral is Essential for Your Health” https://naturalfatlossguide.com/2024/11/the-power-of-magnesium-why-this-mineral-is-essential-for-your-health/

Why do you think Oxide capsules work for me but Glyicnate doesn't?

With Oxide I get calming effects and muscle relaxation pretty quickly but with the latter nothing happens.

It's pretty confusing for me because when doing research everyone says the opposite to be true.

Which food contains magnesium form that cross the blood-brain barrier ?

I ask this because I don't exactly want to try Magnesium L-threonate as I am afraid of the withdrawal effects!

I've taken magnesium glycinate for over a year now and I decided to try the Natural Calm drink mix (magnesium citrate) instead. The first two doses were great! I felt more relaxed than with my magnesium glycinate. However, ever since after those first two days, I've had horrible tension headaches. I stopped taking the supplement a couple of days ago because I realized that my headaches were coming like clockwork 10 min after I took it, but I still have a dull headaches to this day (especially when I eat magnesium rich foods).

I've been chronically stressed and really struggle with sleep, so I really enjoyed taking the magnesium citrate because it really relaxed me. Why is magnesium doing this to me?

39/f. I’m taking 240mg of Pure brand in the morning with breakfast. It’s my second day taking it and I’m just wondering if there’s anything I should look out for big or small? My urine has been cloudy the first pee of the morning and that’s odd for me but it usually goes away after drinking water. No pain anywhere and my blood pressure and heart rate seem to be okay aside from having anxiety…Why I’m taking it.

My dad and grandmother had diabetes and my father died of kidney related issues, so I have some health anxiety around taking any supplement or medication, especially something that’s processed and excreted through the kidneys. So to wake up and have cloudy urine kind of scared me. Especially since I take it in the morning and the cloudiness happens the following morning. I’m healthy and my bloodwork and kidney function always comes back normal. Just worrying a bit.

Is taking magnesium long term as part of my vitamin supplement okay? It helps tremendously with sleep but I will admit I am unaware of long term effects.

Does anyone see any concerns if one was to take 1g of elemental magnesium per day for a long period of time.

I am and have been taking magnesium glycerinate daily for a few weeks and noticed sleep improvement, lowered stress levels, and increased HRV.

Anyone see any concerns with continuing this indefinitely?