Posted by headachequeen on November 7, 2004, at 21:29:58
In reply to Re: can't stop thinking » headachequeen, posted by iris2 on November 7, 2004, at 12:03:09
> Kat,
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> I cannot rmember what I know about the magnesium. I have some to take and for the life of me cannot rmeber waht my reasoning was for taking it. I think a lot was for depression though. Other stuff too. I will look it up on the net but could you babble mail the information your doc told you.
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> Thanks,
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> ireneIrene, there would be no point in my babbling the info he gave me because it was an abbreviated form of the info you posted on potassium...
I was almost tempted to ask if he wanted me to print out the parts he missed because my friend Irene had warned me about things he missed <g>
The pharmacist told me that the constant drinking of water which of course leads to frequent urination flushes it out of the system as does one of the meds I take...
she also told me that if the system is low in magnesium then it doesn't matter how much potassium I take it won't stay anyway...
and as the tegretol causes diarrhoea that will eliminate potassium too so there is a need for still more...
they didn't give me potassium tablets while I was in hospital even after all that... which I thought was unusual... I found out why when a nurse brought me that drink of concentrated potassium... will never forget the taste of it... worse even than the swabs they use to wet your lips when you cannot have anything to drink... two of those a day...
I must have enough of the stuff for a whole regiment!
kat
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