Posted by JLx on October 23, 2004, at 20:04:19
In reply to Re: Magnesium is giving me nightmares, posted by laurie_lu on October 22, 2004, at 20:35:53
> My PMS symptoms : intense depression & moodiness, fatigue, severe abdominal bloating with 5lb + weight gain, painful breasts, arthritic type pain in hips, pressure in my eyes. This sets when I ovulate and is full force at 10 days prior to my period.
> Currently taking: Tums for calcium(750mg), multivitamin, lutein, B-Complex 50mg, magnesium oxide 250mg, St. John's Wort. Calcium and magnesium are not taken at the same time.
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> Dreams this bad disappear once I stop taking the magnesium. I've tested this theory a few times and they always happen when I'm taking the magnesium.Thinking about this some more, I'm wondering if something is happening with the calcium magnesium ratio. I Googled "calcium nightmares" and some people seem to think that calcium prevents nightmares. My understanding of the two is that they're not really antagonistic directly, but are somewhat indirectly, while they also potentiate each other. So maybe you need to either take a more absorbable form of calcium, or take more of it and less magnesium. Or conversely, if you're taking too much calcium and not enough magnesium to help the absorption of that amount of calcium, then maybe you aren't getting even the amount of calcium that you think you are. So, perhaps taking them in even amounts or tipping the balance the exact opposite way would be worth the experiment.
Some interesting stuff on PMS, including a breakdown into different types:
http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C296815.html
http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C52340.html
http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C53229.html
http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C54118.htmlJL
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