Posted by Jasmineneroli on October 8, 2004, at 11:59:30
In reply to Re: Very IRRITABLE!!! Help! Comparing notes » Jasmineneroli, posted by Bubblehead on October 8, 2004, at 9:31:10
Hi Kel:
> I bet JLx would know if that is what is making you sleepy.* I'll start a thread and ask, because I'm feeling the same today.
> Jas, I am so happy for you. I am very anxious to give the other types of mag. a try (waiting for pay day). Thank you for givng me the inspiration to give it a try.
* Thanks for your good wishes - not out of the woods yet (why do I keep coming up with silly sayings, all of a sudden?) - but the reduction in headaches is really encouraging to me.
> I can completly relate. Sometimes, I think my hubby feels I've gone over the deep end. He really has a tough time understanding all of it. I don't blame him. It is hard to understand when you aren't the one experiencing it. I also can relate to the irrational behavior. My poor husband can't seem to say anything right. The other day I was freaking out on him over something so small that I shouldn't have even wasted my breath. Then, of course, I went from being mad to crying over the whole issue. These moments are so embarassing. I don't even have control of myself when this goes on. Do you feel the same way? After I get whatever it is out of my system and then calm down, I see plain as day how awful and irrational I was. I really do hope that the mag does help.
* O yep, I know that scenario only too well! It seems that my anxiety and stress builds up, but I can handle a great deal when the "public me" is in charge ( well, most of the time). But at home, with my husband, the smallest thing, like once I couldn't chop cilantro for dinner properly and fell into heap crying on the kitchen floor. Or I wanted to move some furniture around all of a sudden and he didn't, so I just freaked out at him! The funny thing is that at the time, I don't feel my reaction is strange. Like you say, I just go out of control. With that driving to town over pictures incident I mentioned before, I didn't even feel that was odd, the next day at the Pdoc's office!! It was only after I'd had a medication change and some enforced "rest" that I recognized my behaviour as weird!
And, no, people, including husband's, don't understand, unless they've experienced it. They can be worried, sympathetic and concerned, but don't truly "get it".
> Keep me posted.
> Kel
* Will do!> Oh, I almost forget. You said that you have a lot of headaches. Are they migraines? I ask because I too have terrible headaches. Sometimes mine go in spells of lasting for days. My last spell of them lasted for 24 days. I ended up in the ER twice and had multiple nerve blocks from my Doc for that one. Now, I am really anxious to see how the mag. works. We will have to keep each other posted on this one too.
* Um, my headaches are hard to classify, that's why I was really not sure if calcium excess (or magnesium deficiency) was playing a role. To complicate the issue, I always get headaches as a side effect of serotonergic drugs, especially at first. They usually recede after an adjustment period, except for Buspar and Moclobemide. But then Celexa, which I'm currently on for the second time, makes me clench my jaw..creating a stiff neck/tension. I thought this might cause headaches!!! I reduced the dosage to a point where the jaw-clenching/stiff neck had gone, recently, but the headache stayed. This is why I tried the Mag. experiment. HOWEVER, before all these medication trials, I had what I call 3 day headaches. They would come every couple of months (didn't seem hormone-related) and ALWAYS lasted 3 days. No analgesic every made much impact on them. I didn't have "aura's" with them or other classic migraine symptoms, but was light-sensitive and sometimes nauseated. They were (are) very painful throbbing headaches, right behind and between my eyes. Aagh! Never sought medical attention for them - just lived with it. Probably were a kinda migraine. And I did get, since starting the supplement with the added calcium a few months ago, a pretty much continual headache, always sort of hanging around, peripherally. This is what started my wondering about calcium, because I had ruled everything else out, that was the only thing that was new and that I was still taking. That's why I came over to the alternate board from the med. board looking for answers!
Sorry this was so long, Kel. But it feels good to share with someone who seems to have similar circumstances.
Take care,
Jas
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