A friend of mine says his migraines disappeared since he added magnesium supplements to his diet. Anyone have any success with this?
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Q: Magnesium deficiency cause of migraines?
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5/13/08 10:47pm
I am using Magnesium Asportate and omega 3 fish oil I dont know if it is the reason or not My migraines are ALOT better. I am 51 I heard they get better as you get older. When people tell me things about helping migraines I know its never any good. But I really think this is helping. I play drums for a living. Everyone cant believe how much better i am . You can have stomach problems with Mag. My doc did a mag test . He didnt say I was low.In fact he didnt like the Idea. TOPAMAX was his plan . I said NO THANKS I also stopped eating eggs as much as I used to.I also am under more stress than usual. I cant believe I havent had a bad one since Dec. I am also taking a 1/4 tab of Lexapro 2 1/2 mill I refused to take the whole tab. I think its helping. I will be getting off that soon. Good Luck.
7/15/08 7:51pm
I was one to hardly ever get headaches. Then 2 months ago I was hit with them hard. Having 2 siblings with brain tumors of which one of them was cancerous and has brain cancer I went in to the doctor. Cat scan shower I had pockets of air on the brain. So did MRI and everything was fine. However during this process they drew blood and when I went to the neurologist she said my magnesium level was low. She started me on a supplement 2 weeks ago and the headaches are not as bad. Doing more blood work as I had gastric bypass a year ago so checking other minerals for defieciency levels. I take 400 MG two times a day of a magnesium supplement and its helping so far. So the magnesium your friend is taking probably has helped.
9/15/10 4:01pm
I would believe it. I can't speak for me personally, but I can for my husband. He used to have lots of migraines, then also just regular headaches. On the regular headaches, we found out that Diet Cokes were the culpret by accident when we stopped drinking all cold drinks, plus he was having panic attacks too.
Then we started our magnesium that we take, and the only kind of headache that he has anymore, which is very rarely, is a sinus headache. And that could be because we live out in the country and have tons of ragweed right now.
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I hope that you continue to do well taking your magnesium. That is really scary, especially when you've never had anything like headaches, then all of a sudden they start up.